routing
Working out the fastest path through a game.
Definitions
The brain work behind a run. Deciding the order you do everything, which items to grab, which to skip, where to risk a trick. A great route can beat raw execution.
As a verb, to route a game is to build that plan from scratch, often the hardest part of a new run.
routing In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
Speedrunning term from 'route'; the planning work of figuring out the optimal order of actions, pickups and skips.
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