Total funds raised by Games Done Quick Events by year (data from Why Do People Donate to Games Done Quick? In its nine-year history, GDQ has raised over $22,000,000 for charity. GDQ has been met with immense growth and support. Since then, GDQ has held two events every year: Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) in January benefiting Prevent Cancer Foundation and Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) in June benefiting Doctors Without Borders. In 2010, a small group of friends gathered and held the first Games Done Quick event, raising just over $10,000 for charity. When a new video game is released, speedrunners will immediately gather and start experimenting with the game to find glitches, exploits, and strategies to beat the game as fast as possible. “Speedrunning” (or often just “running”) has its own community of “speedrunners” that has produced unbelievable achievements such as completing the original Super Mario Bros. Footage by somewes, the former world record holder for this game ( ). Using a wall clipping glitch in Super Mario Bros. This is achieved using gameplay exploits, glitches, and optimization, along with hundreds of hours of practice and attempts, to reduce the time required to beat a game. “playing through a game with the goal of optimizing for speed.” While there are many forms of speedrunning with different rules and variations, the basic form of a speedrun, as defined by Eric “Omnigamer” Koziel in his book Speedrun Science: A Long Guide to Short Playthroughs, is: What is Speedrunning and Games Done Quick? Each subcommunity creates a new sociality around the couch, presenting to the viewer population the chance to virtually join the couch via donating and having their donation messages read. Additionally, by showcasing hundreds of games spanning various subcommunities of speedrunning, GDQ allows each subcommunity the time to broadcast their support for the charitable cause. This opens the opportunity for the everyday viewer to engage with the banter and jokes told on the couch, allowing them to be an active member of the couch. We found that viewers of GDQ are strongly motivated to donate by the ability to write donation messages that have a chance to be read out loud on the live stream by the host for the couch and audience to hear. Having witnessed GDQ raise millions of USD for charity time and time again, we sought to understand the question: “How does GDQ succeed in raising substantial donations in such a short time-span despite featuring an ostensibly niche subculture of gamers?” Our paper examines how the sociality around a live streamed couch featured at every GDQ create a social desire among viewers to donate and how a large rotating cast of couch members for each featured game builds a far-reaching pool of potential donors. An independent survey by Matthew Patrick and Stephanie Cordato reported gaming-related charity events generated more than $12,000,000 in 2018, with GDQ being one of the most significant. Charity events held by video game communities has grown with video live streaming becoming a popular form of entertainment. You can catch Piotr Delgado "The Mexican Runner" Kusielczuk right now over on his stream.Games Done Quick (GDQ) is not an isolated phenomenon.
#SPEEDRUNNERS GAME CAST UPGRADE#
I wonder if he's going to try to tackle every SNES game released next? At least the graphics and music would be a huge upgrade over the NES titles. This makes him the first person in the history of the world to play through every single NES game ever released in North America and some that released in Europe. Kotaku notes that he holds records in Battletoads and Contra for speedrunning them on the NES, so he was already prepared for the challenge and he just needed to set his sights on knocking out as many games as possible as quickly as possible. Piotr is no newbie to the speedrunning game, though. In reality, though, some games could be beaten within minutes, so obviously the games that did take five hours were likely the RPGs and sports titles. On average that would mean it took him just under five hours per game.
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Nevertheless, Piotr managed to get through even the most difficult of games, and clocked in more than 3,000 hours in total to tackle all 714 titles.