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SGDQ clocked in $2.9 million donations, a personal best for their online eventsNow that it’s over, here are some neat runs you might have missed
Now that it’s over, here are some neat runs you might have missed
After a big week of speedy button mashing and tricky hacks it’s time for SGDQ to take a well-earned rest. The charity marathon raised over $2.9 million (about £2 million) forDoctors Without Borders, which the GDQorganisers sayis a new record for their online events. It pulled in a total of 40,351 donations from 22,640 actual donors with a median donation amount of $25. If you didn’t catch the marathon live, you can still catch a few fantastic runs from the week down here.
One particularly neat trick happened during theStyx: Shards Of Darknessspeedrun from early in the marathon. I talked about it a bit morelast week, but you can spot the clip right here. Speedrunner “Tohelot” shows off how getting out of bounds in Styx actually allows runners to exploit a set of developer tools in the game.
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“The database holds all the information about the level objectives and we just go on top of the buttons and press ‘yeah, we did the thing’ and go to the next level,” Tohelot explains. That’s a trick I sure wish I had for chores in real life. You can spot the entire Styx run overon YouTube.
Those are the runs I can recommend firsthand at the moment. Still sitting on my watch list is theBlack Mesa speedrun, which I imagine will be neat given how new the game is. I’m also looking forward to watching theUntitled Goose Game run, which proves you can still do wallhacks if you’ve got feathers instead of fingers. Make sure to catch the glitch exhibition following that speedrun for even more goosing around.
What about you lot? Did you spot any particularly nifty tricks? Did you donate this year? There’s plenty of speedrunning to keep me fed until the next event.
Summer Games Done Quick ran from July 4 through July 11 this year,officially raisinga total of $2,909,369.35 for Doctors Without Borders.
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