Hi, I’m a speedrunner and I moderate a few games. A lot of the categories here aren’t as transparent as they could be and could turn off newcomers, so I have a few suggestions.

• Game rules should be added and category rules should be more specific. Exact timing should be specified here as well (i.e., rules should state some variation of “time starts here and ends here”). Depending on how this is approached, certain runs might need their times adjusted.
• “lvl 0 to boss end of boss 1” is presumably just starting from the beginning and beating the very first boss with the cat paw coming through, but that isn’t made clear. Rules are needed, and I suggest a more concise title for the category.
• It should be specified that when playing on Evercade, turbo is not allowed; that, and maybe also allow a separate category for using turbo. This clarity is needed as turbo is built right into the port for the Evercade.

If you need an extra mod to help with this for free, I volunteer, but of course that isn’t necessary. I plan to do a run of this game soon and look forward to it, and let me know what you think of my thoughts.

I think the moderator of this game might be inactive, or check this page rarely. Submitted a time before new year I wanna say, and hasn't been approved.

Here you have the improvements I did btw, in case you are running and want some inspiration:

I have received no feedback/suggestions on category/board reorganisation since my last post, so I have taken the following actions:

a. The end of lv1 category run had no visible video anymore, but states it's the demo and has a verification by the game dev. I also feel the demo category is another stub since the full game is available and the dev has a run. For these reasons I have archived both categories. If runners wish them to be re-added you can request that.

b. I have renamed any% to Beat The Game and clarified in the ruleset that you may use early dash secret at your discretion without skipping any stages. I have added a no turbo for Evercade rule though if anyone seeing this ever wants to submit for Evercade, I'd prefer you contact me first and show me the difference potential between turbo on/off so I get a better idea whether to make this a category or just a platform variable.

c. I looked at the dev's run and link7777's run. I can see they have been mistimed. Since link's run starts timing only after getting dash secret, it seems fairest to change timer start to this point, so as not to disadvantage him. I have also changed timing end to when you exit the final boss stage, reflecting the dev's split end. With this in mind I've retimed all runs. Time now starts when the screen changes after entering stage 1, and ends when the screen changes after passing the final boss.

You may also be interested to know the sequel has its demo up at https://lowtekgames.itch.io/flea2-demo so the full game will seemingly be on kickstarter/on sale soon.