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• GamesDoneQuick.com - you can also view the stream on Twitch directly.
• Schedule - List of runs, shown in your local timezone.
• Donate - Donate to the Houston Food Bank.
• VoDs - Missed a run? Catch it again here.
• Bid Index - You can bid on certain runs for things like character names.
• Donation List - List of all donations made during the event.
• GDQ Twitter - Follow the GDQ Twitter to get updates throughout the event.
• HRDQ Merchandise from The Yetee
• HRDQ Merchandise from FanGamer

Harvey Relief Done Quick (#HRDQ2017) is a special one-off video game speedrunning marathon streamed live on Twitch, with donations going directly to the Houston Food Bank - no middleman! The event features high-level play by speedrunners, playing games as quickly as possible.​

The Houston Food Bank is America’s largest food bank in distribution to its network of 600 hunger relief charities in 18 southeast Texas counties. Named top charity in Texas by Charity Navigator for financial performance and accountability, the Houston Food Bank provides 83 million nutritious meals to food pantries, soup kitchens, senior centers and other agencies, feeding 800,000 people each year. Fresh produce, meat and nonperishables are distributed from the warehouse, and hot meals are prepared and distributed from the new Keegan Kitchen, a 10,000 square foot, state-of-the-art industrial kitchen.

For Harvey Relief: The Houston Food Bank will provide food and supplies in the short term and for many months to come to residents in southeast Texas who will struggle to rebuild their lives. The Food Bank will work closely with their network of partner agencies to ensure food is getting to those who need it most. They also find ways to connect offers of help with those who are providing help.​

There are 45 games over an approximately 48 hour period. Games range from the well known, such as Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Metroid, to the random such as TAIKER and Densha De D: Lightning Stage.​

You can view a full list of the games being run below. The list shows everything including expected time for the run, and updates throughout the week to account for any problems during the event. Please note that all times shown are in your local timezone.​

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The entire event will be streamed live on Twitch for your viewing pleasure. You'll be able to watch on any device that supports Twitch, so most mobile phones and tablets, PS4, XBox One, PC and even some TVs. Simply head to https://gamesdonequick.com, http://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick, or click the image below!​

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There have been reports of frame hiccups whilst watching due to the fast moving nature of the default GDQ chat. If this is affecting you, you can either join GAF Chat (instructions are further down the OP) or you can watch just the video with no chat by going to
https://player.twitch.tv/?channel=gamesdonequick​

First off, it's great that you want to donate! You're awesome! All donations made during HRDQ go directly to Houston Food Bank, and all you need to do is head to the donate link below to make that donation.

IMPORTANT: Use only the donation link on GamesDoneQuick.com. Subscriptions and Bits on the Twitch end will end up going towards AGDQ2018 rather than the Houston Food Bank.​

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If you've missed any of the runs so far, or just want to go back and watch a run again, view them with the link below!

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Marathon chats are unfortunately notoriously spammy (especially GDQ), making it extremely difficult to interact in any meaningful way. As such, we have our own dedicated Twitch GAF channel on Discord that we used for SGDQ & ESA, and will for HRDQ.​

In order to join the Discord, simply quote this post to reveal a link - click the link and come join us!​

Twitch GAF Discord -> ​

Credit to LordAlu for all of the above and Falk for the thread title! I did pretty much none of the work.​

 

[paragonpro]

Fucking awesome! Ill definitely be tuning in and donating

 

[Neptonic]

This is a great idea

 

[Eggiem]

Thumbs up!

 

[serenewarfare]

Really cool of them.

 

[_h8bit]

Thanks for the visibility on this. I'll be tuning in and donating.

 

[Nanashrew]

Awesome!

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Spread the word.

 

[tedtropy]

I'll be there and chiping in as I can. SGDQ and AGDQ are yearly mandatory viewings for me and this impromptu event hits especially close to home. Great to see them doing this.

 

[Fantomas]

Good to know, and pretty impressive since I'm sure it's not easy to put something like this together so quickly.

 

[StarCreator]

EDIT: Preserving the original content of the first post here.

After a short period of determining whether the idea was viable, it seems the people behind Games Done Quick are moving ahead with a mini-GDQ this weekend to benefit the victims of Hurricane Harvey.

Harvey Relief Done Quick announced to benefit the Houston Food Bank.

The event will happen this Friday 8 PM EDT through Sunday 8 PM EDT. Run submissions are now live and will be processed immediately. All runs will be done using each individual streamer's own equipment, streaming directly to GDQ's own ingest server to be restreamed.

Games Done Quick normally runs two marathon charity streams a year, Awesome Games Done Quick and Summer Games Done Quick. Summer Games Done Quick 2017 wrapped on July 9, raising over $1,760,400 for Doctors Without Borders.

I asked via Twitter why this did not extend into Monday (which is Labor Day, a holiday in the US) but it seems they have people outside the US working on this and they weren't able to commit the time to run this outside of the given hours.

The timing of this is rather unfortunate as PAX West and several smaller gaming events are also happening this weekend. One would hope that Twitch would boost the presence of this in their physical booth, so maybe that won't be such a bad thing...

 

[NormalFish]

looking forward to seeing the games list.

 

[Ginger Hail]

It's cool to see the community come together and pull something like this off in such a short time. Can't wait to watch/support.

 

[Incendiary]

This is great. Glad to see the community come together for something like this.

 

[dragonzdogma]

Oh man here we go...do we know which games or a list?

 

[StarCreator]

Oh man here we go...do we know which games or a list?

Game submissions were only opened a few hours ago and are being processed as they come in. I think the intent is to try to finalize a schedule by this time tomorrow.

 

[Ricerocket]

Whoa this is sudden. Hope it works out, with submission a few days before the stream.

 

[Velcro Fly]

I hope smrpg low level makes it in even though it is a 12+ hour run with the potential to be a lot longer

 

[BrokenFiction]

Just announced they have over 350 submissions from runners so far!

 

[ratcliffja]

So all runs will be done remotely? Either way, this is awesome to see.

 

[Baliis]

I hope smrpg low level makes it in even though it is a 12+ hour run with the potential to be a lot longer

I saw iateyourpie saying he was gonna submit it so I hope it gets in too, it's always a great laugh and left/center/right for donations works great. Is super long yea, but could be a good overnight run or an extra at the end or something

 

[jasminlovesyoux]

Yay!!!!!!! Will watch and donate

 

[FSLink]

This is awesome. I'll definitely donate.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Can't wait for this

 

[guybrushfreeman]

Nice, that's a great thing to organise

 

[tesqui]

Lots of respect to GDQ. I'll definitely be watching.

 

[SJRB]

Awesome!

 

[LordAlu]

So all runs will be done remotely? Either way, this is awesome to see.

Yes, it will be an online marathon where runners will stream to a RTMP server and that will then go up on the GDQ Twitch channel. They're still talking with charities as of 5 hours ago, and in the process of updating the website for this event.

 

[StarCreator]

Harvey Relief Done Quick announced to benefit the Houston Food Bank.

I hope smrpg low level makes it in even though it is a 12+ hour run with the potential to be a lot longer

I have doubts runs that long will be accepted given how many game submissions they are. They probably want to maximize the number of runs, so longer runs are unlikely in my opinion.

 

[Brat-Sampson]

Damn, I'm away for half this weekend, but I'll catch whatever I can and hopefully be able to donate.

 

[StarCreator]

Prelim games list (pending runner check-ins): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...LOg4BApydP/pubhtml?gid=1987307337&single=true

halfcoordinated got his TAIKEN run in, lol

 

[Minions]

Amazing, glad they are doing this. Both because I love speed runs, and because I have friends and family affected by the flooding (luckily I evaded any large issues assuming my storage unit didn't flood)

 

[Crab Milk Mickey]

Prelim games list (pending runner check-ins): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...LOg4BApydP/pubhtml?gid=1987307337&single=true

halfcoordinated got his TAIKEN run in, lol

Viewtiful Joe as well, nice.

 

[TUSR]

some good games on that list

 

[DirgeExtinction]

Harvey Relief Done Quick announced to benefit the Houston Food Bank.

I have doubts runs that long will be accepted given how many game submissions they are. They probably want to maximize the number of runs, so longer runs are unlikely in my opinion.

That drawing is so cute. I'll check this out.

 

[jonjonaug]

The End is Nigh should be a pretty cool run.

 

[Panthalassic]

I wish I wasn't currently experiencing medical issues so I could throw in my usual amount, but I still may put in a little.

 

[TheContact]

Prelim games list (pending runner check-ins): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...LOg4BApydP/pubhtml?gid=1987307337&single=true

halfcoordinated got his TAIKEN run in, lol

Holy shit that's a decent amount of games. It's like a mini GDQ. I cannot wait ! Def donating

 

[Mupod]

I never have time for GDQ during weekdays anymore and stuff I want to watch is almost never on weekends during recent ones. So a smaller weekend one sounds like fun. Great list there so far too, will try and tune in for Carcinogen RE at least.

 

[BrokenFiction]

Schedule posted:

https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

 

[Reversed]

Good to see The End is Nigh on the list.

 

[TheContact]

Schedule posted:

https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule

Nice games. Excited for all, mostly CT, botw, and ff4

 

[Nairume]

It still seems a tad early for BotW and a six hour Chrono Trigger run pushing the RE1vsRE2 race into the early early morning is lame, but that is a fantastic schedule otherwise.

 

[StarCreator]

LordAlu sent me a snazzy new first post. Marathon starts tonight, see you all there!

 

[fluffydelusions]

Can't wait!

 

[Fireblend]

How can there be a The End is Nigh speedrun already?! Isn't that super recent?

 

[BY2K]

Chrono Trigger 100% Glitchess let's goooooo

 

[Frumix]

PogChamp

 

[petethepanda]

Undertale race?

 

[tesqui]

I was hoping RE7 would get in. Maybe next one coming up.