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 === Can Be Modulated By ===
 [[Dedicated Game Facilitators]],
-[[[[Glitch Usage]],
+[[Glitch Usage]],
 [[Player Augmentations]],
 [[Replays]],

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 === Can Be Modulated By ===
 [[Dedicated Game Facilitators]],
 [[Player Augmentations]],
 [[Replays]],

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 [[Player Augmentations]] make [[Speedruns]] easier and may be seen as cheats if the execution is seen as a primary component of performing a particular [[Speedruns|Speedrun]] (as compared to finding out how it can be made).
-Scully-Baker<ref name="Scully-Blaker"/> describes two types of [[Speedruns]]: ''finesse'' and ''deconstructive''. While the first relies on speedrunners behaving like "ideal" players and thereby complying to design intentions, the deconstructive speedruns makes use of glitches. Thus, games can be design to support ''finesse'' [[Speedruns]] readily but supporting ''deconstructive'' [[Speedruns]] is a harder design challenges - designed [[Sanctioned Cheating]] may be a possibility here.
+Scully-Baker<ref name="Scully-Blaker"/> describes two types of [[Speedruns]]: ''finesse'' and ''deconstructive''. While the first relies on speedrunners behaving like "ideal" players and thereby complying to design intentions, the deconstructive speedruns makes use of glitches. Thus, games can be design to support ''finesse'' [[Speedruns]] readily but supporting ''deconstructive'' [[Speedruns]] is a harder design challenges since it depends of [[Glitch Usage]] - designed [[Sanctioned Cheating]] may be a possibility here.
 === Diegetic Aspects ===

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 [[Dedicated Game Facilitators]],
 [[Player Augmentations]],
-[[Replays]]
+[[Replays]],
 === Possible Closure Effects ===

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 [[Player Augmentations]] make [[Speedruns]] easier and may be seen as cheats if the execution is seen as a primary component of performing a particular [[Speedruns|Speedrun]] (as compared to finding out how it can be made).
-<ref name="Scully-Blaker"/>Scully-Baker describes two types of [[Speedruns]]: ''finesse'' and ''deconstructive''. While the first relies on speedrunners behaving like "ideal" players and thereby complying to design intentions, the deconstructive speedruns makes use of glitches. Thus, games can be design to support ''finesse'' [[Speedruns]] readily but supporting ''deconstructive'' [[Speedruns]] is a harder design challenges - designed [[Sanctioned Cheating]] may be a possibility here.
+Scully-Baker<ref name="Scully-Blaker"/> describes two types of [[Speedruns]]: ''finesse'' and ''deconstructive''. While the first relies on speedrunners behaving like "ideal" players and thereby complying to design intentions, the deconstructive speedruns makes use of glitches. Thus, games can be design to support ''finesse'' [[Speedruns]] readily but supporting ''deconstructive'' [[Speedruns]] is a harder design challenges - designed [[Sanctioned Cheating]] may be a possibility here.
 === Diegetic Aspects ===

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	[[Player Augmentations]] make [[Speedruns]] easier and may be seen as cheats if the execution is seen as a primary component of performing a particular [[Speedruns\|Speedrun]] (as compared to finding out how it can be made).		[[Player Augmentations]] make [[Speedruns]] easier and may be seen as cheats if the execution is seen as a primary component of performing a particular [[Speedruns\|Speedrun]] (as compared to finding out how it can be made).

		+	<ref name="Scully-Blaker">Scully-Baker describes two types of [[Speedruns]]: ''finesse'' and ''deconstructive''. While the first relies on speedrunners behaving like "ideal" players and thereby complying to design intentions, the deconstructive speedruns makes use of glitches. Thus, games can be design to support ''finesse'' [[Speedruns]] but

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 [[Player Augmentations]] make [[Speedruns]] easier and may be seen as cheats if the execution is seen as a primary component of performing a particular [[Speedruns|Speedrun]] (as compared to finding out how it can be made).
 === Diegetic Aspects ===
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 <ref name="Pac-Man">Wikipedia section on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man#Perfect_play perfect plays] of Pac-Man.</ref>
 <ref name="Wikipedia">Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedrun entry] for the ''Speedrun'' concept. </ref>
 </references>
 == Acknowledgments ==
+Rasmus Tomasson (for pointing out the Scully-Baker paper)

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 == Using the pattern ==
-[[Speedruns]] requires the setting of [[Time Limits]] for some other goal. These can be explicit set by designers which works well with making them parts of [[Goal Hierarchies]] (as in [[Cogs]]) or [[Handicap Achievements]] (as for the ''Bridge over Trebled Slaughter'' [[Achievements|Achievement]] in [[Left 4 Dead 2]]). Another solution is to make them depend on the players own previous performances, which can provide a form of [[Smooth Learning Curves]] since inexperienced players only need to beat the performances of inexperienced players and let them gradually develop [[Game Mastery]].
+[[Speedruns]] requires the setting of [[Time Limits]] for some other goal. These can be explicit set by designers which works well with making them parts of [[Goal Hierarchies]] (as in [[Cogs]]) or [[Handicap Achievements]] (as for the ''Bridge over Trebled Slaughter'' [[Achievements|Achievement]] in [[Left 4 Dead 2]]). Another solution is to make them depend on the players own previous performances, which can provide a form of [[Smooth Learning Curves]] since inexperienced players only need to beat the performances of inexperienced players and let them gradually develop [[Gameplay Mastery]].
 [[Real-Time Games]] are a prerequisite for [[Speedruns]]. This since minimizing time consumption in games that have other ways of measuring times, e.g. by counting turns use in a [[Turn-Based Games]], is more accurately described as a [[Puzzle Solving]] activity. [[Portal]] is an interesting case for this since it can be seen as an example of both these cases - players can try to solve [[Levels]] as quickly as possible in [[Speedruns]] but also try to solve [[Levels]] in as few steps or portal uses.
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 [[Speedruns]] are [[Meta Games]] in the form of [[Races]] - either trying to beat one's own or another players times or trying to complete a part of a game giving a certain [[Time Limits|Time Limit]]. Being a pattern dealing with trying to meet [[Time Limits]], [[Speedruns]] also cause [[Time Pressure]] and very likely [[Tension]] as well. When they contain whole game instances, they provide [[Time Limited Game Instances]] and help create a lower bound for [[Negotiable Game Sessions]].
-Given that [[Speedruns]] are built upon completing a goal better than before, they pose [[Optional Goals]] to players. Further, since [[Speedruns]] motivate players to try to replay games improve their own performances, the use of this pattern also promotes [[Replayability]] and development of [[Game Mastery]]. In fact, since [[Speedruns]] typically are executed to show one's [[Game Mastery]], it is typically done by players wishing to engage in [[Bragging]] at some level. This means that the [[Value of Effort]] for doing [[Speedruns]] are increased if players have the possibility to themselves initiate [[Extra-Game Broadcasting]] of the activities or [[Replays]] of them. In this way, [[Speedruns]] are nearly always done to be able to retell them later as [[Game Instance Stories]].
+Given that [[Speedruns]] are built upon completing a goal better than before, they pose [[Optional Goals]] to players. Further, since [[Speedruns]] motivate players to try to replay games improve their own performances, the use of this pattern also promotes [[Replayability]] and development of [[Gameplay Mastery]]. In fact, since [[Speedruns]] typically are executed to show one's [[Gameplay Mastery]], it is typically done by players wishing to engage in [[Bragging]] at some level. This means that the [[Value of Effort]] for doing [[Speedruns]] are increased if players have the possibility to themselves initiate [[Extra-Game Broadcasting]] of the activities or [[Replays]] of them. In this way, [[Speedruns]] are nearly always done to be able to retell them later as [[Game Instance Stories]].
 When [[Speedruns]] as instantiated by using previous player performance, these earlier performances are examples of [[Trans-Game Information]] used as [[Gameplay Statistics]].
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 === Can Instantiate ===
 [[Bragging]],
-[[Game Mastery]],
+[[Gameplay Mastery]],
 [[Game Instance Stories]],
 [[Gameplay Statistics]], [[Goal Hierarchies]], [[Handicap Achievements]],