Minit is an adventure game released in 2018, where the player obtains a cursed sword, resulting in each live only lasting for one minute. This TAS follows closely the unassisted speedrun route, but with some heavy luck manipulation and tight movements.

Game objectives

  • Emulator used: libTAS 1.3.4
  • Aims for fastest in-game time

Game version and mode

This TAS was done on the "v1.1" or "speedrun release" version of the game, as called by the community, because there is no mention of a version number in the game. It corresponds to manifest 6678403216955145752 in the Steam game depot for Linux. This version features a speedrun mode, which shows the in-game timer on screen, starts at the sword grab and ends at the boss. This mode has no consequence on the final in-game time, but saves more than ten seconds of real-time. This is the chosen mode for this TAS, so it spends a bit of time in the menu to activate it.
It should be noted that "v1.1" has a few gameplay differences regarding the any% speedrun:
  • the three crabs have a fixed pattern
  • the megasword has a smaller hitbox to pick
  • it is no longer possible to suicide during the boss
The later two items make the any% speedrun in "v1.1" about 1-2 seconds slower, but I considered that it was not worth using an old version for such a small time save. Also, the other speedrun categories use "v1.1" because of the introduced camera item which saves several seconds, so it would be more consistent with potential submissions of other speedrun categories here.

Tricks

Suicide early

When hitting the suicide button, the in-game timer pauses, but the environment still continues for several seconds. To save some in-game time, we can suicide while waiting for an event to happen. This is used when giving water to the lost person, and when destroying the last crate.

Watering can pumping

When throwing water, our character is very slightly pushed forward. By using it every other frame, we gain about 8% speed boost.

Thanks

Many thanks to the Minit discord and the UD community for the suggestions and feedback.

slamo: The routing and optimization look pretty solid to me. We can allow the speedrun version since it's fairly popular and also the most recent version, just keep in mind that the original version is similar enough that a faster run using the older version may obsolete this one. Feedback was very positive, accepting to Moons.
fsvgm777: Processing.


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Short and sweet, yes vote!
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Totally misread the title and thought this was some kind of Meme category of installing Linux Mint.
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Love this game, glad to see it TASed.
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Am I the only who mistakenly read the game's name Linux Mint? Well it seems no..
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Fun run to watch. All my yes. Would be great if it could also get a commentary so I can understand what's going on.
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I was super excited until I realized that this does not, in fact, speedrun the installation of Linux Mint. I'll still watch this anyway and vote, however. :)
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dwangoAC wrote:
I was super excited until I realized that this does not, in fact, speedrun the installation of Linux Mint.
I mean, none of the other linux tases show the installation either. Unless I’m not understanding a joke or something.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
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explaining the joke: There is a meme category for "speedrunning" the installation of an operating system (such as Windows 95, etc). The way the title of this game is formatted ("Linux Minit") makes it look a lot like the "Linux Mint" operating system.
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Ah ok. Thanks.
[14:15] <feos> WinDOES what DOSn't 12:33:44 PM <Mothrayas> "I got an oof with my game!" Mothrayas Today at 12:22: <Colin> thank you for supporting noble causes such as my feet MemoryTAS Today at 11:55 AM: you wouldn't know beauty if it slapped you in the face with a giant fish [Today at 4:51 PM] Mothrayas: although if you like your own tweets that's the online equivalent of sniffing your own farts and probably tells a lot about you as a person MemoryTAS Today at 7:01 PM: But I exert big staff energy honestly lol Samsara Today at 1:20 PM: wouldn't ACE in a real life TAS just stand for Actually Cease Existing
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