At AGDQ this year, one Blade II run illuminated how few honest conversations we have about games development and how speedruns are a great vehicle for them.
This week marks the return of Awesome Games Done Quick, the first of two annual major speedrunning charity events that bring out the absolute best that gaming culture has to offer. As we’re halfway through the week now, I’m happy to say that this year’s AGDQ has already raised more than half a million dollars for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, and by the time the marathon ends on Sunday, it’s likely to exceed more than $1 million.
Selfishly I also really love the event because it’s one of the few public places where our culture starts tearing down the wall of secrecy behind how games are made in a way that feels constructive. If you’re at all familiar with the stuff, this is among the upper echelon of the causes near and dear to my heart.
’s development provided undue headaches for him and his team at the time, there was a frankness, and almost wistfulness, in his tone that made the countless revelations, like the fact that the developers didn’t have the rights to Wesley Snipes’ likeness of Blade, felt cathartic.
I know games are imperfect and I like to believe a large number of people do too. Sometimes, the way we talk about them seems to miss that fact though, which is why I hope we continue to have moments like Forsyth’s illuminating and deeply entertaining commentary on his own game. Hopefully, we can come together and pave more avenues for such frank conversations to take place.
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