ANY%: Tarot-Fueled Speedrunning Action

ANY%, pronounced “any-percent”, is a tarot-based game of bizarre glitch hunting and white-knuckle competition to hold the world’s fastest time in a video game that doesn’t exist!

Speedrunning is a strange and beautiful thing.

Imagine a video game that usually takes around thirty hours to beat. Dozens of people spent years of their lives making it. Then YoshisBigButt763 comes along and breaks the game in so many ways that he can get from the start menu to the end credits in forty minutes. He goes into parallel game dimensions, manipulates the game's code into giving him items he should never even have, and executes multiple tricks that only work within a window of 1/60th of a second, all in the name of getting the world's first forty-minute time. When he finishes that world-record forty-minute run, he is named a legend.

Three months later, a new skip is discovered and another runner named HatDog rocks up and beats the game in thirty minutes flat without breaking a sweat.

When someone completes a game by skipping content and glitching past essential scenes, that's called an any% run. And that's what this game is about. It's about being one of these people. It's about embracing the absurdity of game worlds, the hilarity of skipping past the final boss, the wonder of discovering completely unintended game mechanics, and the sheer drive to be the best in the world at beating a video game really quickly.

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Whether you're playing solo or with friends, you'll begin each game by using your tarot cards to randomly generate a level, which you'll then play through using other cards as your "controls." At each obstacle, you'll pull a card and interpret it to see how quickly you make it through! Don't worry, Any% only requires a rudimentary knowledge of tarot - as long as you know the basics, you'll be good to go.

As you play through the level, you'll discover, describe, and name tricks and skips that can drastically lower your time! Over the course of your four attempts, you'll be able to exploit more and more weak points in the level to push the world record to the absolute limit!

If you're looking for a tight solo game to keep you absorbed and compelled for 30 minutes, Any% is easy to jump into and satisfying to optimize. If you want a party game that's cooperative, competitive, and creative, Any% can keep your game night energized!

Designed by S. QUINN MORRIS

Yep, that's me!

Layout and cover design by the peerless JULIE-ANNE "JAM" MUNOZ (she/they)

Jam is a Latine artist with a love for weird and colorful design. She's known for her award-winning layout, eccentric games and co-founding Dinoberry Press. Watching dead-serious speedrunners take on agonizingly slow and colorful obscure children's games is a personal joy.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

NICK CERRUTI, for helping me see the heart of the cards.

NOVA, for throwing me so many bones I am buried beneath them.

RYAN KHAN, for being on the playtesting grind.

THE BRAIN TRUST, for being my home.

THE SPEEDRUNNING COMMUNITY, for doing cool stuff and making the cool videos that made me want to make this game.