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SGDQ is over for this time! Thanks to all the watchers and donators, and see you again for European Speedster Assembly starting July 23rd! It's summer, it's summer, it's Summer Games Done Quick 2016! Summer Games Done Quick is an annual speedrunning marathon for charity featuring runners from Speed Demos Archive (SDA), SpeedRunsLive and TASVideos, collecting money for the benefit of Doctors Without Borders. SGDQ2016 happens from July 3rd to 9th, meaning a full week with amazing speedgame content. Regular runs, races, tool-assisted demonstrations, interviews with runners, but primarily, a lot of people coming together to play video games fast for a good cause. Important links Schedule: Found here: http://gamesdonequick.com/schedule - this schedule will automagically adjust to your timezone, so you don't need to calculate anything. Except for when you can sleep, which is basically never. Watch it at: The event is streamed at Twitch, but the marathon event has a specific page that you should use, which is at: http://gamesdonequick.com/ (once the marathon starts, will have stream and chat and all that fancy stuff). The Twitch page is http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick but only use that if the main page shits itself. If you want to watch in your media player of choice, you can use Livestreamer. How to use it: BloodWulfe posted:Windows users can grab a precompiled version right here. Here's a quickstart guide. Basically the only thing you need to setup is your video player location. The config file has a bunch of default locations that you can just uncomment. It should look something like this: You can also use Livestreamer Twitch GUI, which is, well, a GUI for Livestreamer, if you don't feel comfortable around command lines. Official recordings will go up eventually, once they have all been processed. There's usually a list of timestamped links to watch the runs in the Twitch VODs, and to minimize people uploading monetized videos on Youtube during the marathon, GDQ staff will try to get at least temporary versions up on Youtube as soon as possible. Watch this space for the links. Chatting: Twitch chat is best not used, as it's not going to be the official chat channel. It will be under heavy load either way, and might turn to slow and subscribers only mode if it gets too bad. Instead, the official chat is as usual on IRC. Server: irc.quakenet.org Channel: #sdamarathon Direct link Quakenet Webchat (Mibbit will not work) There's also a SA speedrun channel that you can use for slightly slower conversation: Server: irc.synirc.net Channel: #speedruns Direct link Mibbit Webchat And if you're one of those people who use Discord there's supposedly a server here. I have no idea how that thing works. Get cool shirts: Longstanding GDQ partner TheYetee always has a bunch of nifty shirts you can buy for $11 (or $13 for the larger sizes) during the whole event! A percentage of the profit from these shirts will be donated to the charity towards the end of the event (or during multiple points, with how much money they tend to get from it). The SGDQ2016 shirts can be found here, and you can get some of the shirts that were featured for previous events here. Get games: Humble Bundle has a special SGDQ 2016 Bundle running currently with some of the games featured in the marathon, containing VVVVVV, Dustforce DX, Guacamelee! Gold Edition (take note that it's Gold, not Super Turbo Championship Edition), Super Meat Boy, Escape Goat 2, Serious Sam Double D XXL, Serious Sam: The Random Encounter and Freedom Planet, for the minimum price of $15. ============= SGDQ: What they do All money collected during Summer Games Done Quick goes directly to Doctors Without Borders, with nothing going to anyone participating in the event. It's 100% charity. All attendees pay for their own travel and living expenses. Games Done Quick have hosted a number of very successful marathons for a number of years, with AGDQ2014 being the first marathon to break one million dollars in donations for a single event. Most recently, AGDQ2016 raised 1.2 million dollars for Prevent Cancer Foundation and Summer Games Done Quick 2015 raised 1.2 million dollars for DWB. The most successful marathon to date has been AGDQ2015, which broke 1.5 million dollars in donations. As the event grows each year, more work is put into improving the quality of the stream. There's always going to be some hiccups, though, so be patient whenever something's not running at 100% efficiency. (The UraniumAnchor cloning project is still looking for funding, and if it doesn't work out we'll put that money in the UA Booze fund instead.) ============= Donations: What it's all about SDA marathons up to and including half of AGDQ2013 used a donation widget known as ChipIn. ChipIn crashed and burned horribly during AGDQ2013, so resident coding superhero SMK reinvented the You will be able to leave a comment with your donation. During earlier marathons, all comments were read out on stream, but as more and more donations come in each year, it has become impossible to do so. Therefore, there's a filtering system in place. In general, this is the idea: quote:-The program should auto-filter donations that are less than a dollar, but in case if one slips through, filter it out. There is also a scrolling ticker for donation comments on the main page. No, they're not going to put that on the stream. Stop asking. The donation tracker for SGDQ2016 can be found at https://gamesdonequick.com/tracker/sgdq2016. ============= Donation incentives: What they are One of the more popular things to drive donations are the donation incentives and the raffle prizes. When you donate, you can have your donation go towards one of the many donation incentives that are available for different games. This involves naming characters, selecting different modes, in some cases even choosing which game will be played. All the incentives are available to view on this page of the tracker. In honour of community member Oyster's close friend's daughter Samantha who is currently, at only 12 years of age, going in and out of hospitals after a serious recurrence of brain cancer, we tried to get the A Link Between Worlds file named Sam. For a more detailed explanation of the situation, please refer to this post by Oyster. In the end, we did not succeed with this, but there's more names to be had. There's always prizes to win, and you can see a list of all of them in the tracker as well. Prizes come in two categories - regular and grand. Regular prizes you get entered into the drawing for if you make a donation of the minimum amount specified, mostly between $5 and $25 with a single one at $30, during the specified game or game block. Grand prizes you get one chance to win per specified total donated throughout the entire event, up to three tickets for each person. For this marathon, the grand prize is at $50, meaning that if you donate a total of at least $150 during the course of the event, you have three entries in the raffle. Now, what is there to win? Cool stuff. Such as... A Zelda cross stitch:  A Mark of the Ninja wood burning:  Whatever the hell this is:  Literal Pokéballs:  Pretty cool Cloudbuilt poster:  And, as always, assorted perlers:     (that last one doubles as a magnet) ...and much, much more. The grand prize of SGDQ2016 is an Xbox One Prize Pack that I can't find any image of so I don't know what's in it. ============= FAQ: Q: What runs should I watch? A: There is no one answer to this question. Anyone you ask will give a different answer. Anyone who has recommendations, if you post a pastebin or Google Doc or just a post you intend to keep updated with run recommendations, let me know and I will link it in the second post. So, if you're looking for recommendations while the marathon is going, check the second post. Q: Will ____ be there this year? A: Check the schedule. If they're not listed as a runner or commentator, it doesn't really matter if they're there or not. There's been some, let's say, controversial runners/commentators in the past - it's for the best if we don't bring that up. Q: So did you hear about that marathon when that one guy- A: Please don't. Really - please don't. Marathon threads in the past have been plagued by people who think the height of hilarity is to make fun of the people participating in or attending these marathons, in which case you're a dick. Maybe someone did something they didn't think all the way through that then got spread through dubious pastebins circulating on twitter, maybe someone did something awkward on camera that the internet decided to turn into a meme - but that's irrelevant. While talking about things going on at the event is of course fine, this thread is meant to primarily be about the runs and the cause, so try to keep the drama to a minimum. And should you think that bringing up old drama from past marathons or things that just so happened to happen to a runner that's going to SGDQ is a good idea, it's not. Q: Why isn't ____ on the schedule? A: Either nobody submitted it or there wasn't room for it on the schedule. GDQ has grown so, so much, so it's not going to be possible to fit all games that would be cool to have in a marathon. Q: Why didn't they read my donation comment? A: The amount of comments is far, far too high for it to be even remotely possible to read them all. If you were planning on donating just to have your comment read on air, perhaps you should rethink your reasons for donating. Q: Where is this happening? A: SGDQ2016 is located at the Hilton Minneapolis Downtown Hotel. ============= So that's about it - if there is anything else you're wondering about when it comes to the event or organization, feel free to ask! There's a few goons who are directly involved with the event to various degrees, and many more who are involved with the community, that can answer your questions. And finally, a song KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Jul 10, 2016 |
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I AM GOOD AT KEEPING UP WITH THISAzazell0 posted:Well, just a quick list of my must-watches: Dias posted:Personal highlights: Little Mac posted:Super Mario Sunshine - A solid opener with cool tricks and good commentary. Should be traditional for Summer forever. KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jul 10, 2016 |
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moment of the stream and Halfcoordinated is awesome anyway. 
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I grabbed it yesterday from the imgur link in the prize tracker but I'll change it.
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Huh, I hadn't even noticed Super Amazing Wagon Adventure was in. Didn't expect it either given how utterly un-runnable that game is since all of it is an autoscroller and everything is 100% random.
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It's beautiful. And thanks for the sticky!
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greatn posted:I missed most of Super Metroid and only came in during the mother brain fight. WTF wiped everyone? From the time stamps I can guess that the ghost squid got one person, maybe the Ridley fight got another? Not sure what would have got the third guy. Also, the deaths were to Ridley, Draygon and Mother Brain - everyone actually survived Phantoon.
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