Awesome Games Done Quick, a speedrunning occasion that raises cash for charity, is again for its annual winter gaming marathon from Jan. 5 to Jan. 12. Over three dozen teams and particular person speedrunners are taking part this time, with segments operating across the clock for the entire week.
This 12 months’s Awesome Games Done Quick is elevating cash for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, and whereas high-profile video games corresponding to Horizon: Forbidden West, The Last of Us, Astro Bot and 2024’s Silent Hill II remake headline the marathon, count on to see a broad vary of well-liked and lesser-known video games on present. Classics corresponding to Super Mario Bros., Ninja Gaiden II and even 1996’s Batman arcade recreation sit alongside area of interest favorites, together with Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana, UFO 50, Inspector Gadget: Gadget’s Crazy Maze and Squirrel With A Gun.
Some individuals maintain issues conventional and goal to finish a complete recreation or a particular portion of it as shortly as potential. That’s fairly the duty in itself and requires hours of apply and professional information of how the sport works. Others have one thing much less orthodox in thoughts.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild phase throughout the upcoming Games Done Quick, for instance, options two gamers sharing one controller and seeing how a lot — if any — of the sport they will get via. The people operating Elden Ring are internet hosting what’s known as a DLC Bingo Lockout, the place gamers race to see who can full a line on a bingo card first, with every sq. representing a particular job, corresponding to defeating a boss or discovering a uncommon merchandise.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time phase makes use of a randomizer to combine up the place objects and doubtlessly even dungeons will seem, and somebody’s planning to get via as a lot of New Super Mario Bros. Wii as potential — whereas enjoying the piano. There’s even a dwell band offering backup music for Crazy Taxi throughout that portion of the present.
Games Done Quick has hosted speedrunning marathons in winter and summer time for 15 years and raised $51.8 million for world charities, together with Doctors Without Borders, Organization for Autism Research and AbleGamers. The final of these three organizations advocates for higher accessibility in video video games, pioneering growth of adaptive expertise that lets folks unable to make use of conventional controllers nonetheless get pleasure from video games and forge connections via them.
Games Done Quick will stream the occasion dwell on its Twitch channel. AGDQ’s website has the complete schedule.
