Quake done Quick
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Quake done Quick is a series of machinima
and speedrun
movies in which Quake, its mission packs
, and a few of its related games, are completed as fast as possible, utilizing any shortcut or trick (except cheat
s) necessary. These movies are available in the game engine's native demo format and in rendered multimedia versions such as AVI
files.
has published an announcement of the then newly created Quake done Quick with a Vengeance movie on its front page.http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/14/1223230&tid=112 Out of all the series' movies, this one is also the most popular. In it, the entire game is finished in 0:12:23 on “Nightmare” difficulty, the hardest in the game.http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqwav.html This run succeeded Quake done Quicker http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqr.html and the original Quake done Quick http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqr.html movie, in which the game was finished in respectively 0:16:35 and 0:19:49. The main reason for the latest installment being over 4 minutes faster, an improvement that surpassed the initial expectations of the runners, was the discovery of bunny hopping
, which allowed runners to attain a much higher speed in most levels and even made it possible to save rockets or grenades since certain jumps could now be done without them. This movie is currently being improved by new and old runners for a production called Quake done Quick with a Vengeance Part II.http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/projects/qdqwavp2/ As of October 2006, the improvements that have been made thus far would result in a time of 0:11:30 for the entire game, an improvement of 53 seconds.
movies, using "recams" (showing the run from preset camera perspectives rather than the first-person view) and sometimes even custom skins, models, and a script to turn them into film
s rather than speedrun videos. This is done for entertainment purposes, while there is always a first-person perspective recording available as a documentation of what the runners are capable of.
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! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Title
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Acronym
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Completion time
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Date of publishing
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Description
|-
| colspan="5" | Quake
|-
| Quake done Quick with a Vengeance
| QdQwav
| 0:12:23 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqwav.html
| 2000/09/13
| Run through Quake on Nightmare difficulty 1
|-
| Quake done Quick lite
| QdQlite
| 0:12:54 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqlite.html
| 1998/01/24
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty 2
|-
| The Rabbit Run
| TRR
| 0:10:58 http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/movies/trr.html
| 2003/09/18
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty
|-
| Quake done 100% Quicker
| Qd100Qr
| 0:59:31 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qd100q.html
| 2000/01/04
| Run through Quake on Nightmare difficulty while obtaining 100% kills and secrets
|-
| Quake done 100% Quick lite 2
| Qd100Qlite2
| 0:33:33 http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/movies/qd100qlite2.html
| 2006/07/22
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty while obtaining 100% kills and secrets 3
|-
| Quake done double Quick
| QddQ
| 0:12:35 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qddq.html
| 2000/08/29
| Run through Quake on Nightmare difficulty with two players at the same time
|-
| Quake done double Quick lite
| QddQlite
| 0:09:55 http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/movies/qddqlite.html
| 2006/06/22
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty with two players at the same time
|-
| Scourge done Slick
| SdS
| 0:11:02 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//sds.html
| 1998/07/26
| Run through Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon on Nightmare difficulty 4
|-
| Scourge done Slick lite
| SdSlite
| 0:08:20 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//sds.html#SdSlite
| 1998/12/07
| Run through Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon on Easy difficulty 5
|-
| Fiend Run Lite
| FRL
| 0:10:00 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//frl.html
| 1999/04/01
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty “as a fiend”
|-
| Quake done Backwards
| QdB
| 0:11:28 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdb.html
| 2002/12/24
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty in reverse level order
|-
| Runner's Delight at Speedcon
| RDSC
| 0:03:29 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//rdsc.html
| 2000/08/29
| Run through “Runner's Delight” Easy difficulty with two players 6
|-
| Speed Beyond Belief
| sBB
| 0:04:25 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//sbb.html
| 1997/12/20
| Run through “Beyond Belief
” on Easy difficulty 6
|-
| Speed Completely Beyond Belief
| SCBB
| 0:12:33, 0:18:24 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//scbb.html
| 1999/06/10
| Runs through Beyond Belief on respectively Easy difficulty and Nightmare difficulty while obtaining 100% kills and secrets
|-
| Speed Beyond Belief lite II
| SBBlite2
| 0:02:20 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//sbblite2.html
| 2002/03/02
| Run through Beyond Belief on Easy difficulty
|-
| Blue Hell done Quick
| BHdQ
| 0:00:38, 0:00:51 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//bhdq.html
| 2000/11/30
| Runs through “Blue Hell” on respectively Nightmare difficulty and Easy difficulty, the latter while obtaining 100% kills and secrets 6
|-
| Skillz Test #4 reel
| colspan="2" | ST4reel http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//st4reel.html
| 1997/08/09
| A reel of highlights from the Skillz Test #4 challenge
|-
| colspan="5" | Quake II
|-
| Quake2 done Quick2
| Q2dQ2
| 0:21:06 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//q2dq2.html
| 1999/07/05
| Run through Quake II on Hard difficulty
|-
| colspan="5" | Doom
|-
| Doom done Quicker
| DdQr
| 0:16:05 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//ddqr.html
| 2000/12/10
| Run through The Ultimate Doom on Ultra-Violence difficulty 7
|-
| Doom2 done Quick
| D2dQ2116
| 0:21:16 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//d2dq.html
| 1998/06/10
| Run through Doom II
on Ultra-Violence difficulty
|-
| Hell quickly Revealed
| HqR
| 0:43:39 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//hqr.html
| 1997/11/21
| Run through “Hell Revealed” on Ultra-Violence difficulty 8>
1 preceded by Quake done Quicker and Quake done Quick
2 originally 0:14:06, but later improved to its current time
3 preceded by Quake done 100% Quick lite
4 the Quake done Quick website notes that this is currently their best movie
5 available as add-on to Scourge done Slick
6 this run is for an independently produced and freely available Quake map pack
7 preceded by Doom done Quick http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com/ddq.html
8 this run is for an independently produced and freely available Doom map pack
Machinima
Machinima is the use of real-time 3D computer graphics rendering engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation...
and speedrun
Speedrun
A speedrun is a play-through, or recording thereof, of a whole video game or a selected part of it performed with the intent of completing it as fast as possible, optionally under certain prerequisites, mainly for the purposes of entertainment and competition...
movies in which Quake, its mission packs
Add-on
Add-on might mean:* Plug-in , a piece of software which enhances another software application and usually cannot be run independently** Browser extension, which modifies the interface and/or behavior of web browsers...
, and a few of its related games, are completed as fast as possible, utilizing any shortcut or trick (except cheat
Cheating (video games)
Cheating in video games involves a video game player using non-standard methods for creating an advantage beyond normal gameplay, usually to make the game easier, or may also create unusual effects which do not necessarily make the game easier to play, such as giving characters different...
s) necessary. These movies are available in the game engine's native demo format and in rendered multimedia versions such as AVI
Audio Video Interleave
Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback...
files.
Collaborated speedruns
Quake done Quick is an important aspect of the Quake speedrunning community. Essentially, it represents a collection of collaborated speedruns in which the game is finished as quickly as possible with special rules and aims. Unlike the normal records listed above, these movies are created one level at a time rather than in one continuous play session; as such, it is possible for multiple people to help create the movie by sending in demos of individual levels, and much better times can be aimed for as the segmentation allows one to easily try again upon committing an error. It also allows runners to only have to focus on a small portion of the game rather than all of it.Popularity
These movies are by far more popular than the conventional records, both in the community itself and outside of it. Some of them, most notably the movies that feature a fast playthrough of the game on the Nightmare difficulty level without additional voluntary challenges, have even been distributed with gaming magazines and posted on news sites. SlashdotSlashdot
Slashdot is a technology-related news website owned by Geeknet, Inc. The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters", features user-submitted and ‑evaluated current affairs news stories about science- and technology-related topics. Each story has a comments section...
has published an announcement of the then newly created Quake done Quick with a Vengeance movie on its front page.http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/14/1223230&tid=112 Out of all the series' movies, this one is also the most popular. In it, the entire game is finished in 0:12:23 on “Nightmare” difficulty, the hardest in the game.http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqwav.html This run succeeded Quake done Quicker http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqr.html and the original Quake done Quick http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqr.html movie, in which the game was finished in respectively 0:16:35 and 0:19:49. The main reason for the latest installment being over 4 minutes faster, an improvement that surpassed the initial expectations of the runners, was the discovery of bunny hopping
Bunny hopping
Bunny hopping, or bunny jumping, is a term used in video games to describe the basic movement technique in which a player jumps repeatedly, instead of running, in order to move faster.-Concept:...
, which allowed runners to attain a much higher speed in most levels and even made it possible to save rockets or grenades since certain jumps could now be done without them. This movie is currently being improved by new and old runners for a production called Quake done Quick with a Vengeance Part II.http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/projects/qdqwavp2/ As of October 2006, the improvements that have been made thus far would result in a time of 0:11:30 for the entire game, an improvement of 53 seconds.
Machinima
Some of the productions have been turned into machinimaMachinima
Machinima is the use of real-time 3D computer graphics rendering engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation...
movies, using "recams" (showing the run from preset camera perspectives rather than the first-person view) and sometimes even custom skins, models, and a script to turn them into film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
s rather than speedrun videos. This is done for entertainment purposes, while there is always a first-person perspective recording available as a documentation of what the runners are capable of.
Releases
This is a list of releases in the Quake done Quick series of which the most notable ones have been further annotated. For more information on the movies that aren't further explained here, see the Quake done Quick Web site http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com/. Unlike the conventional records, the individual players that worked on these movies are not listed; there are always many different players working on these projects, and as such, they are usually attributed to the “Quake done Quick team”, while details on who made which portion of the run can be found in the description text files that come with them.! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Title
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Acronym
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Completion time
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Date of publishing
! style="white-space: nowrap;" | Description
|-
| colspan="5" | Quake
|-
| Quake done Quick with a Vengeance
| QdQwav
| 0:12:23 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqwav.html
| 2000/09/13
| Run through Quake on Nightmare difficulty 1
|-
| Quake done Quick lite
| QdQlite
| 0:12:54 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdqlite.html
| 1998/01/24
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty 2
|-
| The Rabbit Run
| TRR
| 0:10:58 http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/movies/trr.html
| 2003/09/18
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty
|-
| Quake done 100% Quicker
| Qd100Qr
| 0:59:31 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qd100q.html
| 2000/01/04
| Run through Quake on Nightmare difficulty while obtaining 100% kills and secrets
|-
| Quake done 100% Quick lite 2
| Qd100Qlite2
| 0:33:33 http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/movies/qd100qlite2.html
| 2006/07/22
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty while obtaining 100% kills and secrets 3
|-
| Quake done double Quick
| QddQ
| 0:12:35 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qddq.html
| 2000/08/29
| Run through Quake on Nightmare difficulty with two players at the same time
|-
| Quake done double Quick lite
| QddQlite
| 0:09:55 http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/qdq/movies/qddqlite.html
| 2006/06/22
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty with two players at the same time
|-
| Scourge done Slick
| SdS
| 0:11:02 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//sds.html
| 1998/07/26
| Run through Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon on Nightmare difficulty 4
|-
| Scourge done Slick lite
| SdSlite
| 0:08:20 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//sds.html#SdSlite
| 1998/12/07
| Run through Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon on Easy difficulty 5
|-
| Fiend Run Lite
| FRL
| 0:10:00 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//frl.html
| 1999/04/01
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty “as a fiend”
|-
| Quake done Backwards
| QdB
| 0:11:28 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//qdb.html
| 2002/12/24
| Run through Quake on Easy difficulty in reverse level order
|-
| Runner's Delight at Speedcon
| RDSC
| 0:03:29 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//rdsc.html
| 2000/08/29
| Run through “Runner's Delight” Easy difficulty with two players 6
|-
| Speed Beyond Belief
| sBB
| 0:04:25 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//sbb.html
| 1997/12/20
| Run through “Beyond Belief
Beyond Belief
Beyond Belief may refer to:In film, television and radio:* Beyond Belief , a short film featuring the band Petra* Beyond Belief , a documentary about two 9/11 widows...
” on Easy difficulty 6
|-
| Speed Completely Beyond Belief
| SCBB
| 0:12:33, 0:18:24 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//scbb.html
| 1999/06/10
| Runs through Beyond Belief on respectively Easy difficulty and Nightmare difficulty while obtaining 100% kills and secrets
|-
| Speed Beyond Belief lite II
| SBBlite2
| 0:02:20 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//sbblite2.html
| 2002/03/02
| Run through Beyond Belief on Easy difficulty
|-
| Blue Hell done Quick
| BHdQ
| 0:00:38, 0:00:51 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//bhdq.html
| 2000/11/30
| Runs through “Blue Hell” on respectively Nightmare difficulty and Easy difficulty, the latter while obtaining 100% kills and secrets 6
|-
| Skillz Test #4 reel
| colspan="2" | ST4reel http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//st4reel.html
| 1997/08/09
| A reel of highlights from the Skillz Test #4 challenge
|-
| colspan="5" | Quake II
|-
| Quake2 done Quick2
| Q2dQ2
| 0:21:06 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//q2dq2.html
| 1999/07/05
| Run through Quake II on Hard difficulty
|-
| colspan="5" | Doom
|-
| Doom done Quicker
| DdQr
| 0:16:05 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//ddqr.html
| 2000/12/10
| Run through The Ultimate Doom on Ultra-Violence difficulty 7
|-
| Doom2 done Quick
| D2dQ2116
| 0:21:16 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//d2dq.html
| 1998/06/10
| Run through Doom II
Doom II
Doom II: Hell on Earth is an award winning first-person shooter video game and second title of id Software's Doom franchise. Unlike Doom which was initially only available through shareware and mail order, Doom II was a commercial release sold in stores...
on Ultra-Violence difficulty
|-
| Hell quickly Revealed
| HqR
| 0:43:39 http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com//hqr.html
| 1997/11/21
| Run through “Hell Revealed” on Ultra-Violence difficulty 8>
1 preceded by Quake done Quicker and Quake done Quick
2 originally 0:14:06, but later improved to its current time
3 preceded by Quake done 100% Quick lite
4 the Quake done Quick website notes that this is currently their best movie
5 available as add-on to Scourge done Slick
6 this run is for an independently produced and freely available Quake map pack
7 preceded by Doom done Quick http://qdq.planetquake.gamespy.com/ddq.html
8 this run is for an independently produced and freely available Doom map pack
See also
- Notable games for speedrunningNotable games for speedrunningTraditionally, speedruns have been performed by members of online communities about games in general, usually through discussion forums, using strategies devised by members of such forums. When the activity became popular enough to accede subculture, the first sites dedicated to speedrunning...
— an extensively documented list of noteworthy games for speedrunning purposes. - Electronic sportsElectronic sportsElectronic sports comprises the competitive play of video games. Other terms include competitive gaming, professional gaming and cybersports...
— a general term used to describe computer and video games which are played as competitive sports. - Speed Demos ArchiveSpeed Demos ArchiveSpeed Demos Archive is a site dedicated to speedruns done on many computer and video games.-History:The site originally began as a demo archive of Quake play throughs. SDA was formed initially by Nolan "Radix" Pflug of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by merging with a site created by Gunnar and Jesse in...
— the largest speedrunning community on the Internet.
External links
- Quake done Quick official site