What is the Extra-Life 25 Hour Charity Event? For 25 hours gamers everywhere stream their efforts to play video games (or board games) for twenty-five hours, or a similar event such as holding a 25 hour board and video gaming party. If you sign up to take on this daunting task, then it is up to you to find sponsors for your efforts in friends and family. They offer to sponsor for $X per hour, so $1 per hour would be a total of $25, OR a flat-rate (so you can just contribute $25 total).
More information can be found in the site's official FAQ.
So what's the plan? I shall be running the event and will be the primary fellow staying up 25 hours in order to stream what I can. However, we all know that when GamersWithJobs gets together as a community, we can accomplish some amazing things. Imagine if we not only all get together and sponsor ourselves, but if we encourage each of our friends and family to sponsor as well? I'd say that's bound to be a successful charity.
On the whole, we figure we get what games we can together that members of the community would like to play. Even if you can't stream, I'm sure we can get a bunch of folks together for a private match in, say, Halo: Reach and Team Fortress 2.
You can view the team page here.
So where do you come in? Do you have a game you'd like to play? A game you'd like to see played? The ability to stream games on a platform one of our primary players are unable to do? Do you have money you can use to donate to the cause? There are a variety of ways to help out.
Who is involved so far?
ccesarano
ParallaxAbstraction
Kamakazi010654
Merkaba
harbichidian
gamerparent
Xeknos
Wing-It
sometimesdee
ShynDarkly
Sounds cool, I will watch/donate!
Syndicate is a great game for co-op...:)
I haven't announced my individual campaign yet but I will check with Extra Life on how the team thing works. I think the way it works is people create their own individual profiles to solicit donations and then the totals tie in to the team one. I'll be streaming my 25 hours on my individual Twitch channel (no breaks, that's part of the insane challenge for me!) but I think I have the bandwidth to broadcast to two channels at once so if we are able to tie in to the GWJ one, I should be able to do that as well. I'm hoping to do another themed campaign with stretch goals like I did last year. I'm also hoping I might be able to get some sponsorship to help boost the donations, including getting my employer to match all donations but we just had layoffs so I don't know if that will fly with management yet.
My idea was to try to theme my campaign around co-op stuff so this community effort might actually fit into that really well! There's a bunch of co-op stuff I both have played before and haven't played enough of that are common in the community that I thought we could hit up:
-Left 4 Dead 1/2
-Payday 1/2
-Killing Floor (I've still never played this and want to!)
-Battlefield 3
-Tribes: Ascend
-Warfame (More people need to play this F2P gem!)
Those are just a few ideas. My idea for my individual stream at least would be to play these whenever people were available to and if there were any points where I didn't have any co-op partners available, I'd switch to something single player (thinking a combination of racing games and space stuff like Take On Mars and Lunar Flight. I can also neither confirm nor deny that one of the stretch goals may involve the sequel to a certain title I live streamed earlier this year. Ahem.
I'd certainly be up for this! I actually was planning to do a 25 hour Okami HD stream after being inspired by Parallax Abstraction's Extra Life stream last year.
Definitely interested in donating and/or playing with whoever takes up the mantle.
EDIT: Diablo II/III, Borderlands 1/2, or Torchlight II would probably be a good co-op thing.
EDITx2: Monaco and Magicka if you want something that's a little bit less mainstream
While I likely can't play 25 hours straight, I would love to participate and donate to someone who is willing to give that a shot.
I'm not really equipped to stream myself but I would love to participate in some co-op gaming for this. Though I didn't get to actually join much due to the horrible online, tagging along with your Dark Souls stream was memorable.
L4D / L4D2 Co-op would be a good one. I've played Killing Floor here and there but barely understand what is going on most of the time.
Borderlands 2 & Torchlight 2 are also good choices.
Magicka would be a good late-hour choice, when people are good and drowsy :-p
I would be interested in helping out with this.
imbiginjapan wrote:Though I didn't get to actually join much due to the horrible online, tagging along with your Dark Souls stream was memorable.
Let's give credit where credit is due, that was all Certis and Demiurge. I had nothing to do with those particular streams.
I'll find out what sort of games my computer can run. I know I have Killing Floor and haven't really played it online yet. It seems the fatal flaw in my plan is that I forgot how many gamed on PC right about now.
I was actually talking to PXA :p
I'll talk to the missus and see if this is something I could theoretically do. Of course I'm also considering Nanowrimo so not sure I could do Nov 2.
Personally, I might try to make progress in Rome 2 and Skyrim - there are some great mods already improving Rome and by November I'm hoping it's patched enough to be worth playing for say 12 hours straight.
Now that I have tons of extra time, I wouldn't mind trying a 25 hour run. No idea what I'd play though.
What about Diablo 3 on console?
I'm definitely doing it this year so I can join the team for sure and I'm happy to try to organise stuff as well. From what I've read, everyone who is streaming (which by the way is optional, you can still participate and not stream) does have to run their own independent stream. If the powers that be were willing, the GWJ official channel could be used in shifts by the streamers but keep in mind, that's a lot of work as everyone would have to know the broadcast key, everyone would have to know and stick to their assigned slots and also, you need a lot of bandwidth to run two streams at once. I have 10MBit upload now and I don't even know if my connection could handle that so you'd have to be prepared to cut off your own stream to switch to the GWJ channel which might be too big a pain for some people.
I was already planning to make co-op games the theme of my stream this year so actually, this is fantastic as it gives everyone a big group of people to play with! I've got a ton of co-op focused games available to me but it would be good to see what games people have/are interested in and maybe create a set group that everyone would play from so there's always people available. I will likely principally be on PC but I do have consoles available too. I'm just not sure I can switch between the two without cutting the stream off first so I'd want to minimise how many times I move back and forth.
I'll be launching my Extra Life campaign in the upcoming week I hope. I'm trying to see if I can secure a bit of sponsorship from both my employer and a couple of clients of mine, either for myself or the GWJ team. I'm not sure what I'll be able to drum up but we'll see.
I'm looking at doing this and would certainly be up for some community stuff.
Battlefield 4 comes out mere days before this event so that would be my primary game most likely.
I would definitely be up for joining people in other games though. Some of the games I would probably add to the list would be:
BF4
Mechwarrior: Online
Rome 2 Total War (MP Battles!)
League of Legends
Sins of a Solar Empire
Then some I would like to do but would be harder to get groups for:
Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
Wargame: AirLand Battle
Guardians of Middle Earth
Age of Empires 2
I think it would be really cool to start off the 24 hours with some sort of big GWJ event in a game with all the GWJ streamers before we break off on our own or in smaller groups, something that could house everybody in one game environment, L4D2 is always a popular choice if we have < 10.
I'd be up to join in on some of the games, and to donate.
I like that idea of everyone starting in a game, but it might have to be something that can run on crappy systems (case in point: mine).
Then again, I can actually run Planetside 2, so perhaps my system isn't as bad as I think it is.
That said, perhaps we should consider some Planetside 2 action? I haven't touched it since it was in beta, sadly.
PS2 is good, could get everybody involved no matter how many gamers/watchers there are.
Has the GWJ team been created yet? I went ahead and created my campaign profile.
I like that idea of everyone starting in a game, but it might have to be something that can run on crappy systems (case in point: mine).
Then again, I can actually run Planetside 2, so perhaps my system isn't as bad as I think it is.
That said, perhaps we should consider some Planetside 2 action? I haven't touched it since it was in beta, sadly.
I was going to put PlanetSide 2 on the list. I've played it a bunch and quite like it but I've fallen off with it the last little bit and would love to get back into it again. Also, Blacklight: Retribution is another free-to-play title that's quite good. It also has a co-op focused Horde mode.
My link is http://extra-life.org/participant/wl...
One of my awesome friends have already donated before I even really advertised it.
Here's the link to my portal page. I haven't written the text for it yet so it's just the boiler plate stuff for now. I'll be writing it and recording a Geek Bravado Ramble video to go with it very soon!
Just a quick note guys, you can authorize people to stream on your own channel. Twitch will then e-mail different keys to each authorized person.
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