Just Started Watching - Games Done Quick!

This week it's the Games Done Quick event - speed runners are, er, speed running various games for charity (Doctors Without Borders) until the early hours of Sunday morning.  Speed running (basically completing games as quickly as possible) is a mad thing. 

We were looking through the archives of GDQ videos on YouTube and last night decided to watch the speed run of Crypt of the Necrodancer, in super hard mode.  I can't get far in that game at all, let alone at that difficulty!  (The one clap thing is pretty hilarious, too.  Spootybiscuit asks for only one clap per person, synchronised, at the end of each floor, so as not to put him off his game.)

To start with, I was watching the highlights reel of Awful Games, which is great - I can't imagine why people would play Awful Games for years so that they can set speed running records!  It seems like a special sort of torture.  There was one called Super Hydlide which had the slowest frame rate I've ever seen.  These are not games you'd generally be able to sit through long enough to complete, let alone dedicate your life to completing as quickly as possible!

Anyway, definitely recommend you check out their YouTube videos.  Hours and hours of entertainment there.  :-)

Leicester Comic con

Ok, so it's not as big as a lot of the other Comic cons, but Seb always wants to go!  This year he had me making a Royal Hypno Flower costume from Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare.  I wish I had more time and skill - I would have done the headdress thing differently at the very least.  But he seemed happy enough with it!  Last year I had to do a Cone-Headed Zombie, so he's managed to be obsessed by the same thing for a whole year (though with some gaps in between for other obsessions...)

Seb

Royal Hypno Flower

There were some great gaming costumes there; check out Andy Douglas Photography for loads of brilliant photos.  Here's one from his page, of Aloy (which was my favourite costume there).

Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn, copyright Andy Douglas Photography

Seb appears to expect us to go to Comic con every year, though we find it quite stressful (it's busy, noisy and hot!).  But hey.  He also managed to get a McDonalds Mario toy with a flagpole and two more zombie plushies, so he had a successful day out.  :-)