Awesome Games Done Quick Raises $3.13 Million For Charity

Awesome Games Done Quick, the video game speedrunning marathon that raises money for various charities, has finished its week-long 2020 run by raising $3.13 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

AGDQ 2020 also received more monetary donations than any other Games Done Quick event in the past, according to a press release. Games Done Quick says it received more than 54,000 donations from across more than 80 countries.

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As for viewership, it was another big year for AGDQ. More than 2,750 attended the event itself at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Orlando, Florida. While being broadcast on Twitch throughout the week, AGDQ reached a peak concurrent viewer count of 236,000 people.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 managed to beat out every other Games Done Quick event for the highest amount of money raised. The closest runner-up is 2019’s Summer Games Done Quick, which raised just over $3 million.

Since its inception in 2010, Games Done Quick as an organization has raised more than $25 million for a variety of charities, including AbleGamers, Doctors Without Borders, and Organization for Autism Research.

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This year’s AGDQ included speedruns on games like Sekiro, Untitled Goose Game, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, BioShock, Marvel’s Spider-Man, The Outer Worlds, and many more.

Miss this year’s Games Done Quick marathon? You can find a playlist of some of the speedruns on YouTube. You can also check out our videos of game developers reacting to speedruns of their own games. Here’s two developers behind Control reacting to a 49-minute speedrun, and here’s Benett Foddy reacting to a 1-minute, 24-second speedrun of his infamously difficult QWOP game, Getting Over It.

The next Games Done Quick event will be Summer Games Done Quick, on June 21-28.

[poilib element="accentDivider"] Joseph Knoop is a writer/producer/speed-eater for IGN.

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