{"id":116643,"date":"2020-08-12T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/368126"},"modified":"2020-08-12T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T21:58:00","slug":"video-speedrunning-skyrim-with-skyrim-dev-jonah-lobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/12\/video-speedrunning-skyrim-with-skyrim-dev-jonah-lobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Speedrunning Skyrim with Skyrim dev Jonah Lobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the speedrunning game is picking apart the weird ways video games work to quickly work through&#8211;or even circumvent!&#8211;carefully designed systems and levels, so what happens when a game&#8217;s developers join in on the run?<\/p>\n<p>Find out in this GDC Summer session&nbsp;where game developers and speedrunners who know their game engage in a spirited exercise. In this particular GDC Summer Dev Speedrun session, <em>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/em> artist Jonah Lobe commentates and shares memories from development all while runner BubblesDelFuego works their way through the expansive world of <em>Skyrim<\/em>&nbsp;in just over an hour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See how runners find the tricks that developers use to make the game functional in order to beat the game at top speeds in this GDC Summer session, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iXHRrNRtfPI\">now up for free on the official GDC YouTube channel<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the speedrunning game is picking apart the weird ways video games work to quickly work through&#8211;or even circumvent!&#8211;carefully designed systems and levels, so what happens when a game&#8217;s developers join in on the run? Find out in this GDC Summer session&nbsp;where game developers and speedrunners who know their game engage in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}