glitch hunter

• glitch-hunter

Compound of glitch +‎ hunter.

glitch hunter (plural glitch hunters)

1. (video games, especially speedrunning) A person who finds glitches in video games.
   • 2016 September 19, Ben Kuchera, quoting scrumpee, “Intricate Legend of Zelda glitch allows you to warp straight to Zelda”, in Polygon‎^[1], retrieved 3 June 2025:

     Shout-outs again to Sockfolder for discovering the glitch and writing this code. Sockfolder is a brilliant glitch hunter and programmer who does similar stuff for other things. If you’re interested, follow him on Twitter […] and on Twitch […] .

   • 2022 January 22, Levi Winslow, “Nine Months Later, Breath of the Wild Player Is First To Collect 'Impossible' Arrow”, in Kotaku‎^[2], retrieved 3 June 2025:

     [A]fter nearly a year of theories and attempts, one speedrunner has braved the unknown to collect one specific shock arrow that’s perched so high in the sky, most players have no idea it even exists at all. ¶ Glitch hunter and speedrunner Luke Steelman, who goes by “LegendofLinkk” online, estimates that this specific arrow was discovered around April 2021, […]

   • 2023 June 6, Lewos Gordon, “Tears of the Kingdom glitch hunters aren’t just breaking the game — they’re expanding it”, in The Verge‎^[3], retrieved 3 June 2025:

     It took an international collaboration to begin cracking Tears of the Kingdom open. For the first few days after the game’s release, glitch hunters had been trying to break it using techniques similar to those used in Breath of the Wild, but nothing was working. ¶ “Everyone was kind of scratching their heads,” recalls one glitch hunter who goes by the name Mozz. Then, on day three, a breakthrough arrived on Discord, courtesy of the Chinese community’s discovery of a number of duplication bugs. Sure enough, Mozz and their fellow glitch hunters were able to replicate them. One thing led to another, glitches got stacked upon glitches, and the effects of the exploded code began to cascade.