ExtraLife 2012 GiantBomb Team! - Play Games, Heal Kids

I'm having a bit of trouble streaming. Anyone here got experience with the justintv iphone app ( possibly my only choice)

edit: fuck it. if i can't use the family macbook that day, I'll stream from ustream. Got it to work in 30 seconds with my iPhone.

Ok updated the list. Great job so far guys but we still got plenty of time to raise more!

Last year I had a load of Diet Coke, ddnt really help. All that happened was that I was still tired but also had to go for a piss every 15 minutes as apparently that stuff goes right through me. Only plus side was it gave me an excuse to keep throwing water over my face.

@Hizang: Never liked coffee but I am planning on getting some energy drinks this time. Its just never been something I have bothered with before so I have to figure out what I like first.

@Happenstance: I don't like coffee either, but you don't drink coffee because you like it, you drink it because you need it.

Energy drinks are dangerous. If you don't time it perfectly you'll crash early.

One of my friends I did Extra Life with last year took some Pro Plus Caffeine pills during to help keep him awake, im not sure im at that level yet though. I think we'll just try and keep our multiplayer games until later in the night as they tend to keep us more alert. I bought the London 2012 game last week which should be a good tournament for us and it turns out the new addition to our team this year has a CAH deck which should be awesome to play.

I am participating in Extra-Life this year. Here is my page:

http://www.extra-life.org/participant/mattpnolan

I am going to try to stream it here:

http://www.twitch.tv/ingamestories

I'm going to be playing mostly through a bunch of indie games released over the last 6 months. I'll have a schedule with all of the games soon that I will post on my Extra-Life page and probably in a forum thread. :)

I might be interested in this, if I can convince my wife its for a good cause. I don't have any equipment though. I need to do some research.

Nice to see GB pushing this. I've been doing it for the past two years as well and will be doing it again this year. Here's my link to add to the OP.

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=28593

CHINA DON'T CARE. But Extra Life does.

Anyone in London wanna partner up? I'm planning to play Kinect for 24 hours and I don't think I can go it alone.

Scratch that, it will probably seem that I'll be unable to participate in this years Extra Life the way I wanted to. I've been unemployed for over a year now and I don't have the current funds to pull off what I really wanted to achieve. Sorry to let the team down like this but I didn't really raise much last year and I know you guys will do great.

I am a total newcomer to the streaming world and I have no HD equipment - what would be the best (and relatively cheap way) to stream the Gameplay? XSplit and a Roxio Game Capture (I can get it to Canada for around $68 with this link http://www.roxio.com/machinima and a coupon code)? I could spring a little more and get the Hauppauge HD PVR to spit out HD. Thoughts?

EDIT - I think I've figured it out - just need to get a cheap webcam and am searching Kijiji for cheap Hauppauges.

I literally made a tripod for my iPhone with cardboard and painters tape, so you're better off than I am.

Turns out that Sega CD I bought is broke on all levels. Hopefully I can get it running in a month.

i signed up and joined the team :) i'm Michael Rodriguez on the team :D and my twitch account is also on the site. can't wait :)

About the only thing that I can stream out in 720p is Magic the Gathering: Online, no one wants to watch/listen to me play that for 24 hours, do they?

Unless the fibre optic line gets switched on at the end of this month, then I can go buck wild with this shit.

Also, I have absolutely no one to play with, or talk to, nor do I know anyone else doing this or anyone who would be willing to donate to the cause. Hmm.

ALRIGHT! I got my Sega CD to power on. Now I have to replace the spindle motor by cannibalizing a CD player.

Not part of Giant Bomb team, a buddy and I have been doing this for the last couple of years.

But I am giving away games during my run. Anyone who donates over $5 is entered to win.

www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=30222

If I could get added to the list that would be awesome.

Heeeeey Matt. I signed up. DOTA maybe?

Okay, may not get that copy of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn from a friend for my birthday, but I'm still set for Another Century's Episode R, Borderlands 2, and other games I end up playing. Speaking of Borderlands 2, if anyone has the game on PC and would be willing to play it with me during the event, I'd be glad. Also will have the Mechromancer DLC by that point and plan to try that class for the marathon.

I would totally be down for doing this and even streaming it, but I have a question. If I don't feel like paying for an xsplit license, is there any other decent program I can use to stream?

@shinboy630 said:

I would totally be down for doing this and even streaming it, but I have a question. If I don't feel like paying for an xsplit license, is there any other decent program I can use to stream?

FFSplit

@shinboy630 said:

I would totally be down for doing this and even streaming it, but I have a question. If I don't feel like paying for an xsplit license, is there any other decent program I can use to stream?

Can't you use Xsplit with 4 scenes without paying for the license?

Now that I'm back from the States I've been able to properly make a start on soliciting donations (And make my own). Got one already, and a commitment for at least one more after only a couple of days :)

For anyone interested, my schedule of games is up at http://www.twitch.tv/johndudebro. It's gonna be nonstop hits all day long, starting with Bad Day LA and ending with Duke Nukem Forever, with some really good stuff inbetween. I'm also planning on using Skype for people to call in, so we'll hopefully have a few other voices to break up the constant baritone of just me for 24 hours.

I'm looking to do this as well. I'm planning to have a few people rotating through during the day. Game choice is still up in the air, and I could use some input as to what people would want to see. By the way, I will be livestreaming this.

Donation page: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=34342

Twitch.tv page: http://www.twitch.tv/borg343

Also follow me on twitter i guess? https://twitter.com/borg343

Thanks

Just posted by Drew on Twitter!

Drew Scanlon ‏drewscanlon

Internet! On Oct. 20, alexisg and I will be playing 24 hours of Halo for charity! If you’d like to donate, head to http://giantbomb.com/extralife

Im tempted to set up a second monitor now while im doing my 24 hours to watch Drew and Alexis do theirs

Would be nice if I could use my 15 dollar voucher for my resub to put towards this. Sorry if this has already been answered but would be nice. :/

Hah! FMV games are go. Stupid Sega CD is fixed. For NOW...

I've updated my page, still zero donations, think of the children in the UK!

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=32106

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=36595

There's my page. I'll work out some kind of livestream later when I can figure out the logistics. I can't wait!

I hope I'm not breaking any rules, but instead of 8-8 I'm now doing 6-6. I generally wake up at 6 anyway, so it will be a lot easier, I'd wager those last two hours would be killer.

Alright been been thinking about this and testing some streaming options on my pc and I'm going to do this!

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=36796

I'm helping sick kids hospital in Toronto, ill be mainly playing Guild wars 2 but ill add some more games incase there's server troubles (or i'm bored)

and i'll be streaming here (nothing fancy):

http://www.twitch.tv/wikitoups

This is amazing i will also participate in this :) playing with potential choices of over 100 retail xbox 360 games and over 80 Xbox Live Arcade games. come watch :D

http://www.twitch.tv/icecreammikey

my Extra-Life page is below and i will be helping kids in the L.A. hospital :)

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=33615

Spent the day messing around with Twitch.TV and XSplit, and I think I'm down to actually participate this year instead of just giving Matt a pile of money.

http://www.extra-life.org/participant/chasepettit

http://www.twitch.tv/chasepettit

Well we hit the goal of $2000 well before the event so I've raised it to $3000!

I will also try to get some money together to make donations thanks for this!

I'm throwing my hat in the ring as well! I helped PsEG a little last year and had fun, and now I'm ready for the big time. I'll be livestreaming and probably playing a lot of Dungeon Siege.

http://www.extra-life.org/participant/37198

http://twitch.tv/wrathofconn

Say I'm interested in doing this, how would I go about it? Been wanting to do something for ExtraLife for awhile now, just never got to doing it. And if I am.. I'm gonna need some help with it.

@zombiebigfoot: You can participate in whatever capacity you're capable of. Everyone is welcome.

Just signed up. http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=37293

I'm raising money for the hospital that saved my life when I was born 3 months premature and kept me alive in their NICU for 3 months until I was out of the woods. I will probably break the playing into chunks over 2 days because if I don't I will die. Really excited about this.

@Chaser324: I know, it's mostly the process of getting involved that I'm concerned about. Never done one of these before.

@Matt: Hello Matt. I'll be working to raise some dough during Extra Life for the Children's Hospital of Philidelphia, where they have helped a special little person in my life. Here's the link to my page: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=33466

Thanks!

@zombiebigfoot said:

@Chaser324: I know, it's mostly the process of getting involved that I'm concerned about. Never done one of these before.

There's really not much to it. Make an account, set yourself a goal and start advertising to friends and family (at first).

I hit my goal! Hoping I can double it.

Alright, I'm registered. Jury's still out on whether or not I'll be streaming, though.

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=37481

I most likely won't be able to stream now since I'm currently stuck on a Core 2 Duo machine. My motherboard recently failed and I just sent it out for RMA today. Unless MSI sends back my motherboard in record time (they are pretty close to me) I think I might miss the stream day.

@WilltheMagicAsian: Honestly, my biggest concern with doing the live stream for 24-hours is that some piece of hardware I have is going to overheat and die in the middle of it. I'm thinking I might need to have two setups (Laptop + 360 and Desktop) just to prevent that issue.

While small I hope I helped a bit.