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.  :-)