Despite being delayed, then later moving entirely online as a result of ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Summer Games Done Quick remains to be making ready for some awfully quick gaming subsequent month. The schedule for this 12 months’s occasion has simply gone up, kicking off the annual week of charity speedrunning on Sunday, August 16th. Expect your traditional bouts of boundary-breaking and donation shouting, after all, however can you actually name it GDQ with out the sofa banter?
Yeah, most likely.
GDQ organisers held a one-off Corona Relief Done Quick earlier this 12 months, elevating over $400,000 for private protecting gear and medical help within the US. But the Summer present should nonetheless go on, elevating funds for Doctors Without Borders in an online-only occasion happening this August. There’s a excessive bar to beat, thoughts, with final 12 months’s occasion raising a cool $3 million.
So: The games! This 12 months sees Half-Life: Alyx make its GDQ debut as a “bonus game” on Friday 21st. I’ve an actual delicate spot for seeing how successive generations of speedrunners have damaged the Half-Life collection throughout every game and engine replace, and I’m eager on seeing how Alyx performs into that lineage – even when I determine runner Buffet Time most likely received’t take a detour into Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II.
Sadly, there’s no Titanfall 2 run taking place this 12 months, which is often my spotlight of the present. But I’m pleasantly shocked to see haunting pac-puzzler Eat Girl present up on the Wednesday. Thursday appears to have cruelly positioned the fantastic Hynospace Outlaw between Saint Hazel’s Horsepital and Pringles: The Video Game, two titles I’m satisfied should’ve been made up by our man Nate Crowley in that fictional games ebook of his.
There’s a complete week’s value of runs to pore by means of over on the the full schedule here, and I reckon you’ll most likely discover one thing that’s up your alley. Summer Games Done Quick 2020 Online units off on Sunday, August 16th at 4:30pm BST, with the primary run – Demon’s Souls – beginning the speedy festivities half an hour later.
