The organisers of speedrunning marathon Games Done Quick have breezed previous their earlier charity fundraising file, gathering $3,003,889 (£2.4m) throughout the week-long occasion. They’d already set their very own pace file by hitting $1 million on Thursday – the most important rush of donations at all times comes on the finish – so it’s a multi-record setting occasion and all with a view to give folks medical care. Everyone bask within the feel-good glow for a minute.
Breaking the $Three million mark got here just some brief hours after reaching $2 million (helped partially by including the flood from sponsors and Twitch subs). The crowd started a standing ovation/chant of “Let’s go, Twitch chat,” as runner Puwexil and his sofa friends tried valiantly to maintain commentating the finale of his Chrono Trigger run.
That ticker is so satisfying.
There’s additionally a stunning finale video speaking about such good issues as neighborhood, elevating cash for charity, and likewise taking part in video games extraordinarily shortly. It additionally offers credit score to all of the behind the scenes of us who put the present collectively with out getting the camera-facing glory like runners do.
In phrases of excellent PC runs, there’s some fast evading of scares in Resident Evil 2, and it’s at all times good to look at some classic Skyrim for a lazy Sunday throwback. And some very useful soul has gathered up all the VODs so you possibly can peruse at your leisure.
Games Done Quick Express is arising at Twitch Con in September, benefiting accessibility charity AbleGamers and opening the potential of a world the place GDQ finally ends up chaining collectively occasion after occasion till the speedruns are actually countless, circling the calendar like a speedy ouroboros hungry to ship your money to good causes.
Until then you possibly can nonetheless donate to Doctors Without Borders by way of the Games Done Quick website (not less than on the time of writing), or simply by the charity itself.
