There are two types of speedruns: "regular" and "tool-assisted". Rocket Lab will be hosting the livestream as soon as a launch day is solidified.A playthrough of a game with the intent of completing it as fast as possible for the purposes of entertainment and/or competition. Rocket Lab calls the mission a "homage to the innovation and creativity of gamers worldwide", and Newell will be donating $1 to Starship for every person that watches the gnome make its ascent into space online, either live or within 24 hours of blast-off. He's the focus of a mission to "test and qualify a novel 3D printing technique that could be employed for future spacecraft components" - one that will, regrettably, see the gnome burn up upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere during the de-orbiting process by design. The whole enterprise is a collaboration between Newell, design and manufacturing company Weta Workshop (who'll be building the 6-inch Chompski from titanium) and Rocket Lab, who'll be launching the gnome into space as part of its "rideshare mission" Flight 16, which takes off from Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, within 14 days of November 15 UTC.įlight 16's primary objective is to launch 30 satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit, but Gnome Chompski will be onboard for more than just kicks. It's the stuff of legend, in large part thanks to Chompski's casual disregard for the laws of physics - which would often, infuriatingly, result in the gnome's impromptu high-velocity launch from the back of your open-top vehicle whenever it reached speeds higher than single digits - and Newell will be commemorating it as part of a drive to raise money for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit of children's hospital Starship, in Auckland, New Zealand. Little Rocket Man was a notoriously tricksy achievement to secure, forcing players to carry an entirely innocuous garden gnome - dubbed Gnome Chompski - from the start of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 to a rocket ship toward the end of the game. Half-Life 2: Episode 2's Little Rocket Man achievement - still one of the finest achievements ever created, if you ask me - is poised to become reality, as Valve's Gabe Newell prepares to launch a garden gnome into space for charity.
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