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Steam News24 December 201411y ago

Top 10 SpeedRunners Players of 2014

Happy Holidays everyone. Lerika (the artist on maps like Theme Park and Ski Resort) made this little postcard for you all :) This has been a phenomenal year for SpeedRunners, so we decided to pull up some worldwide lead

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changedHappy Holidays everyone. Lerika (the artist on maps like Theme Park and Ski Resort) made this little postcard for you all :) This has been a phenomenal year for SpeedRunners, so we decided to pull up some worldwide leaderboards in Ranked, and give some fame to the best players!
changedOn behalf of DoubleDutch and tinyBuild, a wholehearted THANK YOU for your support and Happy Holidays!Made Massive Map Updates
addedOn behalf of DoubleDutch and tinyBuild, a wholehearted THANK YOU for your support and Happy Holidays!Made Spikes Non-Lethal (later added option to make them lethal so the pro-players don't murder us)
addedOn behalf of DoubleDutch and tinyBuild, a wholehearted THANK YOU for your support and Happy Holidays!Added the first character expansion introducing the most awesome character of them all (obviously the Falcon)
addedOn behalf of DoubleDutch and tinyBuild, a wholehearted THANK YOU for your support and Happy Holidays!Figured out how to efficiently create new characters by using a mixture of 2D animation and 3D modeling
addedOn behalf of DoubleDutch and tinyBuild, a wholehearted THANK YOU for your support and Happy Holidays!Added In-Game Chat

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changedHappy Holidays everyone. Lerika (the artist on maps like Theme Park and Ski Resort) made this little postcard for you all :) This has been a phenomenal year for SpeedRunners, so we decided to pull up some worldwide leaderboards in Ranked, and give some fame to the best players!
changedMade Massive Map Updates
addedMade Spikes Non-Lethal (later added option to make them lethal so the pro-players don't murder us)
addedAdded the first character expansion introducing the most awesome character of them all (obviously the Falcon)
addedFigured out how to efficiently create new characters by using a mixture of 2D animation and 3D modeling

Happy Holidays everyone. Lerika (the artist on maps like Theme Park and Ski Resort) made this little postcard for you all :) This has been a phenomenal year for SpeedRunners, so we decided to pull up some worldwide leaderboards in Ranked, and give some fame to the best players!

Here is the TOP10 of SpeedRunners Ranked Players Worldwide!

  1. Taters - 44,575 points 2. trafalgar - 36,390 points

  2. Roland - 32,490 points

  3. Mario47 - 32,395 points 5. lesswill - 31,945 points 6. dipu - 30,810 points

  4. WRU - 30,330 points 8. dams95100 - 29,175 points

  5. Space_Pup - 28,190 points

  6. DistinctMadness - 28,130 points

Congratulations and stay speedy!

(If you guys haven't yet accepted Lisa's friend invite, make sure you do, here is her profile link . We might just be sending something your way.)

On behalf of DoubleDutch and tinyBuild, a wholehearted THANK YOU for your support and Happy Holidays!

If you're interested in a longer read, here's a sort of 2014 summary

Launched the Level Editor

Launched Ranked

Made Massive Map Updates

Made Spikes Non-Lethal (later added option to make them lethal so the pro-players don't murder us)

Thought about making boxes lethal

Added the first character expansion introducing the most awesome character of them all (obviously the Falcon)

Figured out how to efficiently create new characters by using a mixture of 2D animation and 3D modeling

Added In-Game Chat

Added Mid-Game Joining

Added the Fireball

Started doing livestreams

Started to realize we all suck at SpeedRunners when playing against pro players

Showcased the game at a ton of events, realized we should do tournaments during those events

Added slope grinding (c) Casper

Added the Youtuber pack

Added tons of options to the game

Significantly improved stability of everything (c) Gert-Jan

Added the Scout

Raised $20k for cancer research

Added Salem and Skullduggery

Revamped the Checkpoint System

Launched the Workshop Contest

Added Swift Peaks (new map)

Added Freeze Ray Item

Wrote this announcement PS Who's going to PAX South?

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Steam News / 24 December 2014

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