Extra Life 2015 Catch-All - Nov. 7th 2015

It may seem early again, but I'm already out trying to sign folks up for Extra Life, and I think it might behoove those involved this year to try and get the GWJ community more involved before the donation drive. So see if we can get donations before the Fall rather than after the drive and during the event.

What is Extra Life 2015?

Extra Life is a charity event where, for one day a year, gamers of all types from all over marathon video games for 24 hours. So it's like a charity run, but with more cheese dust and sleep deprivation and less, y'know, healthiness. Any participant can work alone or join a team and raise money for a children's hospital of their choice. The 24 hour time-frame can be split up across multiple days, you can spend it playing board games, or you can hold one giant video game party with real people if you'd like. As long as there are games being played for a total span of 24 hours.

How does GamersWithJobs get involved?

We have a team that you can join if you would like to participate. Discuss with other GWJers to learn what they've done in the past, as well as working together to organize games to play as a group, involving the community or just trying to stay awake late at night.

What if I can't play games for 24 hours or donate?

We have a Vent channel dedicated to Extra Life. Many of us streamers may be making use of that channel in order to have company or even discuss multiplayer games. So if you'd like to watch our streams and join in on the conversation, that will be a way. Or you can find a multiplayer game likely to be played that weekend, such as Splatoon, Mortal Kombat X, Bloodborne, or Super Smash Bros.

Who is participating?

ccesarano
gamerparent
Clusks
SpaceDog
Xeknos
DocBadWrench

I'm in!

I set up my account. Cool to see you have as well, GP. Maybe we can record a segment!

I plan to make this a part of my birthday gaming. There's a family member who has a child with heart issues. The personal reason is impetus to enter for the first year.

Kinda makes me want a For Dummies guide to setting up the infrastructure*.

I'd love to do a 24 hour Farming Simulator stream.

Spoiler:

* I've never even streamed a game live online.

Does one have to stream the whole time? I'm figuring the Steam stuff will be easy, but WiiU...

This is going to be an awesomely positive way to make end of year pile progress.

Extra Life is very open-ended as to what you "have" to do. Mostly working by the honor system, where streaming is just part of it being communal. In fact, I often tell people that day is just to make it a big event for social media, to help give everyone a goal/deadline and then to sort of work together for it. But you can spread it out to multiple days if you wish, and handle it however you want. When I'm manning Extra Life booths at cons I'll often reference Gamerparent's experience from 2013, when he did two 12 hour days and essentially it was a family effort.

Plus, if you play multiplayer WiiU games, you can always technically be seen/heard via another streamer's channel. I got my Skype and Vent set up to stream the chat's audio with the gameplay, so even if you can't stream yourself, you can still be accounted for if, say, we're all in Vent playing Splatoon and I'm streaming.

Thanks, Chris.

Sounds great, I'm happy to get involved, will stream the whole thing as well! Was thinking maybe of trying to do a speedrun of a game or two as well as getting involved in some online play. Would be cool if we could make a mini league where we all try and play a certain amount of games against each other to gain points. I'm happy, from my collection of gaming swag, to donate a prize or two, whether it be for people participating or for people who donate!

Not really sure about what hospital to do it for since they're all North American, but I'm going to pick one in Ontario since I used to live there for a short time and have fond memories!

Best of luck to everyone again this year. I'll be sure to donate as usual to the cause

This is a bump to remind me to write a front page post soon as a call for participants, as well as trying to add links to profiles and other such information.

There will be streaming of Splatoon and Smash Bros. on my part. Anyone else know of potential popular multiplayer games that will be out by Nov. 7th?

Count me in for this year as well, hopefully this time I will also stream!

I'm thinking about doing this again this year, it was fun last year! Fallout 4 coming out 3 days after this is the worst timing.

So less than a month away, how are we all doing?

I sent out my first round of emails asking for support yesterday, and am going to do a little video with my kids and send that / post that beginning of next week to a wider group.

Definitely in for Splatoon. Not sure what other multiplayer games I would be able to play, so my stream will be mostly kid friendly stuff during the day, and more grown up games in the night time.

Possibly would try to finish Affordable Space Adventures with my kids, that might be interesting to watch.

Going to try and put together my video this weekend. I don't think I can replace my monitor, so I'm stuck playing PS4 games exclusively. But first I gotta test streaming to YouTube rather than Twitch.

I've been busy, guys. I don't think I'm fit to run the Extra Life guild next year, as I've done pretty horribly with it this year. If someone else wants to take up the mantle feel free, but I just haven't been able to do so.

No worries, Chris. I feel you with the being busy part, I've been working a lot and unable to play much. Which is ok, it's life, and this is gamers with JOBS, after all.

Video is up, as well as prizes offered.

I'm going to try and have a front-page post up early next week to buy us some time to get interest.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to do the full 24 hours, as I have had a bit of job upheaval this year =[

I still intend to play for a large chunk of it though and I will join in with a lot of the crew for some games, especially if there's some Bloodborne on the go.

I'll get you information on the make-up dates and such. Extra Life doesn't require you to do it all on the same day, it's just easier to make a social media hit if everyone's going at the same time. But I know gamerparent tends to split his up into two 12 hour marathons, or has in the past, and plenty of folks will do their stream on the following weekend.

ccesarano wrote:

I'll get you information on the make-up dates and such. Extra Life doesn't require you to do it all on the same day, it's just easier to make a social media hit if everyone's going at the same time. But I know gamerparent tends to split his up into two 12 hour marathons, or has in the past, and plenty of folks will do their stream on the following weekend.

I was hoping to take time off work, but I've changed jobs twice this year so don't have any extra holidays, which is a shame, and I don't want to risk being super tired there when I've only just joined.

I'll definitely be on for quite a few hours on the actual date though, and I'll try split it up to make up to the 24!

Nov. 7th this year? Sweet, maybe I can actually watch the streams this time!

Yep, this year my plan is to start on Friday afternoon, end in the evening, and then resume Saturday morning. I can't stay up overnight so I'll end at a civilized hour on Sat but get up early on Sunday to join the final hours.

So on Sunday or Monday I'll need some folks to hop on Skype and Splatoon and help me test streaming to my YouTube channel. Let me know who might be available and what time.

Sunday From 10:30 - noon

First question: I'm super sorry but which one of youse guys is Matt Warren? For the life of me I cannot recall.

Second: I'm afraid I won't be able to take part in anything but PS4 games this year. Roxio Game Capture is just absolute sh*t at streaming, especially WiiU games, and I've already committed to streaming to YouTube, which it has even more issues with. I'm honestly really upset about it. It's a shame because the thing is wonderful if you just want to capture game footage locally, but if you want to Stream? Then it's a piece of crap.

So PS4 only for me. Which means I might just dedicate a whole lot of my day to Dragon Age: Inquisition or something. But I was very much hoping to stream Splatoon and Smash Bros.

ccesarano wrote:

First question: I'm super sorry but which one of youse guys is Matt Warren? For the life of me I cannot recall.

In many ways, aren't we all Matt Warren?

I was tempted to get Divinity Original Sin on PS4 if anyone wants to stream a lot of co-op for the game, that'd be quite fun. I'll be able to stream from PC and PS4, I think!

Matt Warren is DocBadWrench, he's not the most active user on the forums (That coming from me, lol).

Everyone pumped for this weekend?

I'm getting there. I'm getting over a cold at the moment, but should be ready to go come Saturday. Keeping with tradition, I should be starting around 10 AM Mountain.

I'm working with Wordy to get a front page post ASAP. If there are games you want to play with the community, go to in those game threads and see if you can sort something out.

I'm going to compile a list of what I have to play here momentarily. I'm afraid I have few multiplayer offerings for PS4.

Alright, got our front page post up.

I also have my schedule written out.

08:00am - Toren
10:00am - DmC: Devil May Cry
12:00pm - Life is Strange Episode 4
03:00pm - Godzilla
05:00pm - Transformers: Devastation
07:00pm - Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
09:00pm - Destiny
12:00am - Resident Evil: Revelations 2
02:00am - Until Dawn
05:00am - The Last of Us Remastered

In case anyone wants to try and do something multiplayer, I also have Battlefield: Hardline, Dragon Age Inquisition (haven't touched it once yet), Dead or Alive: Last Round: Core Fighters (haven't touched it yet), Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (haven't touched it yet), and...well I suppose that's it for multiplayer, aside from what's listed above. Maybe I should swap out DmC: Devil May Cry for a game I've yet to start.

Those times are EST? I'll try to remember to stop by at 5 since I'm interested to see Transformers in action