https://test-steamproxy.haloskins.io/games/793350/announcements/detail/3126057181555405464

• Timer starts when you do the first jump.
  
• Timer Stops when you reach "Swarmlake" on the score
  
• Use a third party timer and record or stream run for verification of time.

As well as recording or streaming a run there are a couple of programs to make the logging your times easier. One is LiveSplit[livesplit.org] which has the timer and the other is Auto-Split[github.com] which I have been using to automate the Splits.

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updated for 2.5
In Livespit I made four three Splits one at each of the major milestones in game, 1000 Gems, 2500 Gems, 5000 Gems and 10000 Gems in game these scores are shown by the screen changing colour and the game play slowing down. I'm using the detailed timer and Im comparing to my last run.


Example of my Livesplt

In settings make your hotkeys for start and reset and turn on global keys so that you can control Live split from in game.

I'm using the Milestone effect to trigger a split using the Histogram comparison method in Auto-Split, this is set to 0.50 and the region set to full screen. This is not required you can just manual press your Start/Split hotkey (Due to the colour shift in the last update you may need to adjust the comparison number)



To take the screenshots for the comparison run a demo from the in game leaderboard and take screen shots with the screenshot button in Auto-Split. This will name them correctly for the Splits.

Using this method I just start a game then when I jump for the first time I press the Livesplit Start hotkey, and let Auto-split trigger the split hotkey in Livesplit which starts the next segment.

The only down side of this technique seems to be if your run ends early and you need to reset Livesplit you have to manually start Auto-split every time, but if you finish the run Auto-split can be set it to loops the split images so your all set for the next attempt.

If you upload them to YouTube you can add them to steam making sure to link the game. Or twitch lets you make Highlights that you can post the urls for.

Currently There is no Swarmlake leaderboard at https://www.speedrun.com/ but if you can join the developers discord at https://discord.gg/refunct where there is a SwarmLake discussion room.

TheRecessMaster101 1:53 speedrun

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and one of my attempts