Awesome Games Done Quick 2014 January 5th -11th!

Oh man, this totally snuck up on me. I almost wish I didn't have a job, so I could catch most of this live, but I guess I'll settle for watching the archives on the weekends. SGDQ was awesome last year.

Also, holy shit that's a lot of games!

One of the cool things to see is how many newer indie games show up on the run list; we've seen the return of the high skill level ceiling games that kind of went away for a long period of time.

Also, I'm super happy to see Cave story on the list. I remember wishing to see that during SGDQ last year. The rest of the lineup looks fantastic too.

Even better. I know a lot of people had issues with Horror.

Hoping there are some great T-Shirts again this year. Bought a few last year and bought most of the SGDQ ones. SHIRTS

I'll definitely be watching and donating. Can't wait!

This is one of my favorite internet things every year. Really looking forward to this.

Oh man. It really sucks that classes happen to start this week, because otherwise I would probably never leave my computer.

T-minus two hours twenty minutes till this thing kicks off. Remember head over to ExplosiveRuns.com as far as I know Chase is going to leave that up all week. So whether you pop in for 3 hours or 3 minutes hop over and say hi today and chat with the rest of us. =)

Really looking forward to this!

Live now!

It's on.

"Hello everyone this is my let's play of Jak and Daxter..."

I can't seem to hang in either the AGDQ or ER IRC?

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@fattony12000: Yeah, I dunno I've been having some issues as well. =\

I created a chat page.

Sweet! Had no idea this started today.

Screwed up sleep schedule gooooooo.

33k viewers already, this is easily gonna be the biggest AGDQ yet.

$1k donation!

Real Classy Alternative Chat Rooms

Giant Bomb tinychat kinda run by me. If I could log into the web client that is, can't be arsed to run mIRC to admin the (probably) three people in there.

NeoGAF tinychat.

NeoGAF CyTube run by Orayn.

already off to a crazy start!

@demoskinos: Yeah, to my untrained eye, this run seems almost perfect so far.

Good on Gamespot for lending them much of their equipment by the way, I knew that site could at least do something right.

So hey, guys... for anyone who is donating. Back when SGDQ aired a bunch of us all piled on specific incentives to get characters / file names named after Ryan. So, what you guys say? Should we try to get a character in one of the games named Taswell again?

@demoskinos: I'd be up for that for sure.

If we coordinate our efforts I'm thinking either naming the file name for LTTP or naming "Frog" in chrono trigger "Taswell".

Chrono Trigger seems like a good choice since that endurance run happened.

"40k viewers in 40 minutes."

Siiick.

@gunslingerpanda: Agree with you there.

@fattony12000: Really 40k already? The tracker here is showing 8k? http://gamesdonequick.com/tracker/9

Sorry, meant viewer count!

Donation Total: $10,144.98

Twitch chat going nuts already. Seems like a Twitch stream alright.

Alright, I guess that. chat page went nowhere. Anyway, I am very much nostalging over Crash Bandicoot, I remember playing it an obscene amount.

@beachthunder: I watch this guy a lot and he is great at Crash. He has WR for Any% and 100%. Also just ignore the Twitch chat. It's always awful and it will never get better.

A few of us are still over at the IRC chat on explosive runs.

They've said Gamespot and Gamestop so many times now trying to clarify which sent the equipment, its just made me more confused! lol

Ah shit, this started today? I missed bonesaw and just caught the tail end of this crash run. Time for speedruns all day everyday.

I think just about everyone mixes them up.

I'm probably gonna fade away due to exhaustion, but I really wanna see Twitch chat at its best. Or worst. I guess the speedruns are cool, too.

I am excited! Some really cool runs on the schedule. Too bad Spikevegeta isnt running any rayman though :(

For the AGDQ shirts, go to http://www.theyetee.com/sda. Portion of the profits go to the charity.

I think I might get them all except the Metal Gear one.

I keep hoping to see someone do a Shenmue speed run during one of these live streams but no such luck so far.

Whew...some of these donation readings are real bummers man.

Lets go name all of the Crono trigger Characters after the Endurance run version!

@peritus: Brog, Brono, and Bobo are the highlights, but naming one of them Taswell was a good idea too, although that wasn't cancer related.

I really want Brog and Brono... And I will pay a certain amount of money to see that happen.

This Viewtiful Joe run is amazing!

@mclargepants: I put 10 in for Brono, but the current highest is 45! :-( Its in the quick select now so we dont need to add it as a new option every time. Lets do this! :-D

I HAD to donate while watching this. Not only is this a super-impressive run, the guy is really entertaining also. I enjoy Viewtiful Joe a lot and this is totally blowing my mind!

@epidehl: Yeah, one of the most impressive runs I've seen on any of the marathons, really.

I came here to basically say the same. Not only a great run but a really entertaining runner. That seems kinda rare.

Does anyone know if Funkdoc is running anything?

@bane122: He isn't, according to the schedule.