This year’s SGDQ will feature a race through a ‘Celeste’ and ‘Super Mario World’ hybrid

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Awesome Games Done Quick 2020, Games Done Quick returns in-person at next week’s Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) in Bloomington, Minnesota.Games Done Quick is a series of video game marathons for charity, with high-level play by speed-runners.

It is currently the largest fundraising event globally for charities Doctors Without Borders and the Prevent Cancer Foundation, having raised over $34million (around £28million) for both charities to date.The event attracts over 3000 people including staff, volunteers, runners and attendees looking to support the event.

This year’s event features a host of exciting runs including Elden Ring, Metroid Dread, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl to name but a few.One of the more unusual runs of SGDQ comes in the form of Celeste.smc: a hybrid creation of the best elements of Celeste, a narrative-driven, single-player platform adventure and Super Mario World, the beloved retro platformer that follows Mario’s adventure to save Princess Peach.Creator MarkAlarm cites it as “the lovechild of two incredible platformers.” Having been a fan of both games for an extended period of time, he spent three years bringing the “mechanics, elements, and visuals from Celeste into Super Mario World.” The result is an astounding combination of the two games, with Celeste.smc not being a remake of Celeste nor Super Mario World, but its own entity, although it does bring across the dash, the wall jump and the strawberries from the original Celeste game.The Kaizo Mario speed-running community is thriving, with thousands of romhacks and even more speed-runners having entries on the popular time-keeping site Speedrun.com.