Hey everyone! This saturday (November 7th), I will be participating in the Extra Life 24 hour gaming marathon. The purpose of this event is to raise money for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
This is my first year participating, I have no idea what to expect. I am shooting for a fundraising goal of $250. Hopefully with your help, we can smash this goal together! Since I live in the St. Louis area, I have chosen St. Louis Children's Hospital to receive the money I raise this year.
How to Help
If anybody would like to support me in raising money for the children, please donate via my profile page on the Extra Life site: http://www.extra-life.org/participant/nathanmikeska.
If you would prefer to support a different Extra Life participant or just donate directly to Extra Life itself, you can do so here. Or better yet, if you would like to get more directly involved, you can sign up for free on the Extra Life site and participate to raise money yourself. Also, you can always donate directly to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals directly at http://give.childrensmiraclenetworkhospitals.org/
This is considered a charitable donation and as such, is tax deductible. I believe tax receipts will be emailed to you after making a donation. Other information on the charity and how the money will be used can be found in the Extra Life FAQ.
Kids, if you are too young to donate yourselves, feel free to ask your parents. :-) Also, consider participating yourselves in the future! The money goes to a great cause.
Game Day
I plan on getting started at 8:00 AM CST on Saturday, November 7th and gaming until 8:00 AM CST on Sunday, November 8th (or until I pass out from exhaustion - I'm not as young as I used to be...).
The intent is to stream my entire marathon via Twitch.tv (I'll post the link here when game day arrives), however I've never done any streaming before, so I can make no guarantees. Feel free to join me online on game day. Just a heads up though, I will make no guarantees on the stream being 100% kid friendly (ironic, I know, given that it is an event to help kids...) as some of the games I may end up playing will be rated 'M'.
As for games I'll be playing, I have no definite list right now. Since I am asking you all for help though, it is only fair that I let you see how bad I am at SimplePlanes and SimpleRockets, right? I am thinking I'll have at least a dedicated hour to each, maybe starting SimplePlanes around 1:00 PM CST and then move on the SimpleRockets around 2:00 PM CST. Some other games I am considering are Kerbal Space Program, The Witcher 3, Dragon Age Inquisition, Darkest Dungeon, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Beseige, Outlast, Baldur's Gate II, System Shock II, Pillars of Creation, Wasteland 2, Bioshock Infinite DLC, Far Cry 3, Unreal Tournament 2004, and probably others. I am open to suggestions!!
If anybody else is also participating, feel free to post here as well!
Counter Strike! The last of us!
Team Fortress 2! If that's not too much to ask :)
Broforce is a fun game, I would suggest it too
Play some fallout FW or something. Maybe from the depths
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You have my support. As far as I know, I'm free all Saturday(subject to change, but this seems unlikely), so I'm available to help out in any way possible. I'd run my own stream if I were well-known, but I probably wouldn't be able to organize anything large enough to raise any real money.
If you have any multiplayer games and want a second player, I can always make myself available for that too, but IDK how well that would work out(I do hear KSP has a multiplayer mod, so that could be interesting).
The only thing I can suggest is maybe, on the subject of multiplayer, getting all of Jundroo involved in one way or another. It'd be fun to see you guys competing against each other.
Game suggestions: Broforce(just came out of early access, and it kicks ass!)
One reason why i shouldnt upvote...