I think it would be cool to add Categories like All tapes, All checkpoints, 5 strawberries, 10 strawberries, 15 strawberries, and 20 strawberries. I think Run should be solely based off of in game timer. I also think Controllers and keyboard both should be allowed on the same leaderboard.

Hope this can help the team in one way or another:)

Makes sense! I agree with in-game timer. Some categories I was thinking of were Peak% (Get to the top spot where Badeline is) and All Strawberries (which would be hell)

Hi there! Loved this little game! I think for sure that in-game timer should be the right way to go while keeping in mind that we need to press start to see the timer at the end, not sure if the time stop when you grab a strawberry or it continues (if it continues, it would be a few sec loss before being able to press start and see the time, but i thiiink it pauses itself if you're not in control of madeline. Need to investigate this.)

we can consider a "timer" and "in-game timer", people will still use a timer with splits, a lot of games have both.

about Peak%, do we really want to see a 15 sec run?

I personally think that checkpoints, 5,10,15,20 strawberry, that's a bit too many categories. The game is small. My personal take on this would be:

• any% / peak% (even if it's ridiculously fast lol would be completed once triggering the flag, since the credits are there i would count this as the way to "complete" the game)
• 20 strawberries (all strawberries in the overworld minus the 10 b-side)
• 100% (all strawberries)

just to clarify, time ticks everywhere all the time, even while collecting strawberries. however time immediately stops ticking when you're at the peak by Badeline, which could pose an issue in a B-sides or 100% run, seeing as it's very easy to trigger the peak-state (which stops the timer) when you are near the final casette tape

Also jesus christ 15 seconds is just absurd. I barely clocked in a sub-22sec

To clarify my clarification: this is "peak-state" The runner tries to go to the final cassette tape but triggers peak-state at 10:05:64, which pauses the IGT

it would probably be easier to just ignore the pause and let it exist but ofc then there could be an altenate timer or the mods could time how long the pause lasts and add the duration of the pause into the time

but who knows yet lol

ftr I made this PR that would fix the ending-area issue