Games Done Quick is a series of charity video game marathons. These events feature high-level play by speedrunners raising money for charity. Games Done Quick has teamed up with several charities throughout its history, such as Doctors Without Borders and the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Millions of dollars have been donated to great charities, thanks to the GDQ speedrunning marathons, and many prizes have been awarded to those who donate!

Here is the main website for Games Done Quick: https://gamesdonequick.com/

Awesome Games Done Quick is the annual GDQ marathon performed in the winter, while Summer Games Done Quick is the annual GDQ marathon performed in the summer. This year, SGDQ is from Sunday 16 August to Sunday 24 August.

Here is the schedule of all the SGDQ 2020 games that will have speedruns, along with the names of the runners, expected run times, the category/ type of speedrun, and donation incentives (prizes you can win by donating during a specific speedrun, additional caveats you can create for the speedrunners, etc.): https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

MAIN STREAM: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

Non-English streams:
French Stream
German Stream
Spanish Stream
Japanese Stream
Russian Stream
Portuguese Stream

DONATE HERE: https://gamesdonequick.com/tracker/ui/donate/30

SGDQ 2020 VODs:
TBD - still no collective link as of 18 August, so check Reddit for now.

All GDQ VODs:
https://www.youtube.com/user/gamesdonequick/playlists

"Real Time" GDQ Vod Links (via reddit):
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/iatacb/sgdq_vod_thread_2020/

Please watch, enjoy, and donate!

Figured I'd get a thread started since I haven't seen one yet. I can't believe it's already that time again, they've very obviously converted this to an online format, which is nice - something to help us all escape 2020.

Moderator note: Updated post with a source for Twitch VOD links broken down by run [zeromus]
2nd edit by Half: Updated with Portuguese, Russian and German streams.

Dark_Chill

Canada3353 Posts

August 18 2020 04:25 GMT

On a mini vacation for the duration of GDQ, first time I'll be able to actually watch a lot of it.

Lazyer

United States370 Posts

August 18 2020 07:46 GMT

Woah it's already running - can someone who is familiar with some of the games highlight ones expected to be good? I used to enjoy the terrible games done quick section of AGDQ and the runs where the game is just completely broken (like the portal speedruns).

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45612 Posts

August 18 2020 10:15 GMT

Thanks for taking care of the OP!

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45612 Posts

August 18 2020 12:36 GMT

Half, can you please add the VOD website to the OP?
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/iatacb/sgdq_vod_thread_2020/
Thank you!

ZeromuS

Canada13407 Posts

August 18 2020 14:55 GMT

On August 18 2020 21:36 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Half, can you please add the VOD website to the OP?
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/iatacb/sgdq_vod_thread_2020/
Thank you!

I got you

Mod powers activate!

Big fan of all the GDQs hope everyone has fun!

Right now the pulseman run is on and its a nutty looking game, highly recommend the vod.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45612 Posts

August 18 2020 15:33 GMT

On August 18 2020 23:55 ZeromuS wrote:

Show nested quote +

I got you

Mod powers activate!

Big fan of all the GDQs hope everyone has fun!

Right now the pulseman run is on and its a nutty looking game, highly recommend the vod.

Thanks! I hope this online GDQ performs well too, in terms of entertainment and donations

I watched Quest 64 earlier, which is my #1 guilty pleasure video game. The lineup for the week looks pretty solid and fun too.

Half the Sky

Germany9029 Posts

August 18 2020 21:16 GMT

Oof, busy day and evening with work. Thanks for the updates mods.

Also added the newer German stream, plus Russian and Portuguese streams.

On topic, I managed to catch both the Witcher and Batman streams so far, they were pretty decent. The guy who played Talos Principle....I've never touched that game, but he was so chill and entertaining as he just flew through his game, it drew me in.

Just finished Jet Set Radio, that was a really nice addition to the lineup.

As far as donations, I would predict they'd be lower, but we shall see. Maybe, maybe not, $307k at the time I am typing this.

Plume, I'm a bit of an old school gamer, I think in the past I've really enjoyed anything Zelda, anything SMB, anything Portal (which I missed already because I was asleep), but this year because streamers are literally global, there's a lot of new names I hadn't seen in January (the winter edition) and I've found some of them more entertaining than others.

So far, the few I've seen I haven't been disappointed.

Looks like I'll be missing 2/3 Zelda runs since I'll be asleep, so guess I'll have to hit the VODs there.