The annual event has surpassed the million dollar mark for charitable causes. SGDQ, despite being less popular than AGDQ, is still one of the biggest events of the summer.
Summer has started and with it the summer edition of Awesome Games Done Quick, known as Summer Games Done Quick. From now on we'll call them AGDQ and SGDQ for short. It is a show based on speedruns with solidarity motives over several days, with comments and gifts for donors.
Speedrun? What's that? And how did they get a million dollars?
Small and fast class: a speedrun is the act of beating a video game in the shortest time possible, until no action of yours has more influence on the result. The games that are presented in the SGDQ and AGDQ are usually of all kinds, although the classic games are usually the most powerful like Super Metroid.
What about donations? Many tend to be from people who want their voice to be heard in a stream that generates hundreds of thousands of viewers So strong is that they can put Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers on the Mega Drive in the second most watched position on Twitch. These AGDQ and SGQD usually have surveys based on donations like choosing the name of the character in an RPG or influencing whether in Super Metroid they save the animals or not.
Practically nothing has been achieved the first million dollars raised, with the game Banjo Kazooie. A huge coincidence that it is a game that will soon have a character in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. On this occasion, it is the fastest they have managed to reach seven donation figures. And there are still several days of non-stop speedruns left in SGDQ to get even more money. We will inform you of the final figure for this edition.
