The event, which took place in Pittsburgh this year, ran nonstop all week from January 14-21, and featured a bevy of amazing speedrunning feats, fun community-building moments, and an outpouring of generosity for a good cause.
By the marathon's midpoint, AGDQ 2024 had surpassed Games Done Quick's last mainline event – SGDQ 2023 – in donation pacing and hit $1 million shortly afterward on day five. The event had a lot of highlights including a successful no-hit run of Resident Evil 2 (2019), Super Mario 64 on an electric drum kit, Hades and Undertale races, a four-players-one-controller blindfolded Majora’s Mask run — among other blindfolded showcases — and the very first dog speedrun at a GDQ event: Peanut Butter the shiba inu's successful run of Gyromite.
In addition, an astonishing four confirmed world records were broken on stream:
- Luminescent Pride% (GlitchCat7)
- Celeste Strawberry Jam Collab (Talia)
- Virtual Hydlide Any% Fixed Seed (Mechalink)
- Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Zangetsu All Bosses - Hard, NMG (Bobbeigh)
The weeklong marathon ended strong with appearances from Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur's Gate 3, and Final Fantasy V to cap off the week. In case you missed any of the fun, every run from AGDQ 2024 is archived on the official Games Done Quick YouTube channel.
Games Done Quick has now raised more than $48.9 million for charities worldwide since its first event in 2010, including Doctors Without Borders, Prevent Cancer Foundation, Malala Fund, Organization for Autism Research, and CARE. The next event is GDQ's all-women speedrunning showcase Frost Fatales, which is being held online from March 3-10, 2024, and will benefit the National Women's Law Center.
For more information about Games Done Quick, please visit gamesdonequick.com. An archive of AGDQ 2024 can be found on the official Games Done Quick YouTube channel.
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