Posted: 1/7/2016 7:09 PM
Post subject: The First Non-human Speedrunner
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Aqfaq
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Is Ayumu the first non-human speedrunner? Link to video Protip: www.animalspeeddemosarchive.com is available. Another protip: www.animaltasvideos.org is also available.
Posted: 1/7/2016 7:58 PM
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Derakon
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Depends, do you count programs written to speedrun games as being nonhuman speedrunners? I admit that that chimp is pretty speedy at that game, but are they really striving to be as fast as possible, or are they merely playing it? I mean, I'm not a speedrunner of, say, Angband, even though I'm pretty good at it and a lot faster than your average player.
Pyrel - an open-source rewrite of the Angband roguelike game in Python.
Posted: 1/7/2016 8:51 PM
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Funny fact, to look how chimps learning play Pac-Man is more interesting than some recent submission: Link to video
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