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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
frame perfect en · ADJ
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative form of frame-perfect.
One example given by Ross was of trying to share a “frame perfect” trick for killing the first boss in Castlevania
2019, Barrett R Anderson, Adam M Smith, “Understanding user needs in videogame moment retrieval”, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, →DOI, pages 1–10:Some of GDQ’s greatest entertainment value comes from moments when the speedrunner displays unbelievable skill and precision through performing pixel perfect or frame perfect tricks.
2019, Stephen Tsung-Han Sher, Norman Makoto Su, “Speedrunning for Charity: How Donations Gather Around a Live Streamed Couch”, in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, volume 3, number CSCW, ACM New York, NY, USA, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1–26:‘Frame perfect’ refers to inputs that must be entered between two frames of the game. Since the frame rate of many of the most popular speedrun games is around 30fps, this means that a frame perfect input must be within a 0.03 second window.
2021, Michael Hemmingsen, “Code is law: subversion and collective knowledge in the ethos of video game speedrunning”, in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, volume 15, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 435–460: