Extra Life - 24hour Gaming for Charity

fionny · 12-09-2012 9:43am #1

Hi All,

This year I am participating for the second time in a Charity Event called "Extra Life" which aims to raise money for Childrens Hospitals around the world by having gamers pledge to game for a 24hour period straight.

The Date I will be doing this is 20th October

This year will be my second year doing it and Im hoping to raise the bar for myself a bit on last year where I raised 185USD.

All money raised by myself will go to the Mercy Hospital Kids Fund.

If you feel you might be able to throw a donation of any size my way you could do so via my donation page:

www.extra-life.org/participant/fionn

It might be a cool idea for a few fellow Boardsies to do this also, the main page for the charity is:

www.extra-life.org

Thanks All! Especially Mr. E who kindly allowed me to make this post

Jaych1000 · 27-09-2012 5:31pm

Me and my two friends are doing this too to raise money for Temple Street Children's Hospital. Please check out the our donations page at: www.extra-life.org/participant/TheThreeEejits
Our goal is €1000! Even if you can't donate, please spread the word! We need all the help we can get to reach our goal.

Our Facebook page is: www.facebook.com/TheThreeEejits
Please click to like it.

Cheers

deathrider · 27-09-2012 6:09pm

This is quite interesting. I might be interested in getting involved myself. How exactly does it work? Do you do it from home? Is there food/pee breaks?

saiint · 27-09-2012 6:16pm

id donate
but not seeing you do the 24 hour stream
kinda makes me think different
were as most people would stream it for proof ?
goodluck though
i wouldnt be able

Jaych1000 · 27-09-2012 6:33pm

deathrider wrote: »

This is quite interesting. I might be interested in getting involved myself. How exactly does it work? Do you do it from home? Is there food/pee breaks?

Basically, you register at http://www.extra-life.org

You're provided with a donations page where people can visit and donate to the cause.

You can do it from wherever you want. Play whatever game you want (can be board games). The main point is that you play for 24 hours and have some reason for people to donate money to you.

Haha yes of course you can eat and use the toilet. They want money raised but aren't trying to torture you. It's all in the name of fun and helping sick children.

Jaych1000 · 27-09-2012 6:36pm

saiint wrote: »

id donate
but not seeing you do the 24 hour stream
kinda makes me think different
were as most people would stream it for proof ?
goodluck though
i wouldnt be able

This is a good point.
We won't be doing a live stream, but we will periodically provide pictures on our Facebook page throughout the 24 hours.
Some people in the US are doing a live feed though.

deathrider · 27-09-2012 6:39pm

Jaych1000 wrote: »

Basically, you register at http://www.extra-life.org

You're provided with a donations page where people can visit and donate to the cause.

You can do it from wherever you want. Play whatever game you want (can be board games). The main point is that you play for 24 hours and have some reason for people to donate money to you.

Haha yes of course you can eat and use the toilet. They want money raised but aren't trying to torture you. It's all in the name of fun and helping sick children.

Sounds good. Your own chocie of games too? For example, if I get bored with a 6hour stretch of Mortal Komabt, I could throw on a spot of Peggle to lighten the mood? Or jump from Xbox to DS and back?

Jaych1000 · 27-09-2012 6:48pm

deathrider wrote: »

Sounds good. Your own chocie of games too? For example, if I get bored with a 6hour stretch of Mortal Komabt, I could throw on a spot of Peggle to lighten the mood? Or jump from Xbox to DS and back?

Yep! Absolutely anything!
Games are games.
You could play Xbox for a few hours, then play hopscotch if that tickles your fancy

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention is that most people around the world will be starting this at 8am on 20th Oct. It's not mandatory to do this but that's when I think me and my mates will start.

Please, if you decide not to participate, even share the link on your Facebook. The chances are that someone somewhere wants to donate

deathrider · 27-09-2012 6:53pm

Fantastic stuff, man. The 20th oct falls on a saturday too, which means I wouldn't have to book a day off work. Thanks for the info

Jaych1000 · 27-09-2012 6:56pm

Exactly! It was planned well.
If anyone has any other questions, I'll try answer them with what knowledge I have of it.

Here's to hoping we can raise lots for the hospitals!

Corkfeen · 27-09-2012 7:03pm

This seems like a tempting reason to play Borderlands 2 for 24 hours.... :P

Jaych1000 · 27-09-2012 7:07pm

Corkfeen wrote: »

This seems like a tempting reason to play Borderlands 2 for 24 hours.... :P

Given out to by parents... "but it's for charity". Best excuse

aN.Droid · 27-09-2012 7:09pm

Hmmm, if I had known about this a little earlier I would of tried to set up a group effort. ten or so in the room streamed with a few cameras. Too late to do that now though

Maybe next year. Good luck to everyone doing it though!

Jaych1000 · 27-09-2012 7:11pm

Limericks wrote: »

Hmmm, if I had known about this a little earlier I would of tried to set up a group effort. ten or so in the room streamed with a few cameras. Too late to do that now though

Maybe next year. Good luck to everyone doing it though!

A group effort would be a bit of craic.
I've two friends doing this with me.

Sure spread the word anyway.

dreamers75 · 27-09-2012 10:20pm

saiint wrote: »

id donate
but not seeing you do the 24 hour stream
kinda makes me think different
were as most people would stream it for proof ?
goodluck though
i wouldnt be able

Because you would watch it for 24 hours to make sure you got your moneys worth?

Do your own and i will stream it for you if you raise €500

in HD an all.

Jaych1000 wrote: »

This is a good point.
We won't be doing a live stream, but we will periodically provide pictures on our Facebook page throughout the 24 hours.
Some people in the US are doing a live feed though.

www.ustream.com get an android phone connected via wifi and place it behind you for the duration.

Jaych1000 · 27-09-2012 10:37pm

Thanks for the link. I didn't really know how to go about setting up a stream until now.

The problem is that we'll be playing Xbox live most likely on two Xboxes and because my friend lives out in the shticks, the bandwidth isn't great. A live stream would probably grind everything else to a halt.

dreamers75 · 27-09-2012 11:53pm

Jaych1000 wrote: »

Thanks for the link. I didn't really know how to go about setting up a stream until now.

The problem is that we'll be playing Xbox live most likely on two Xboxes and because my friend lives out in the shticks, the bandwidth isn't great. A live stream would probably grind everything else to a halt.

10kbs upload on low setting, murder your ping unless you on DSL/Cable but still very possible.

Plenty of time to test it anyway.

Jaych1000 · 28-09-2012 12:11am

This is true.
We'll have a go and see how everything holds up.

fionny · 28-09-2012 11:52am

saiint wrote: »

id donate
but not seeing you do the 24 hour stream
kinda makes me think different
were as most people would stream it for proof ?
goodluck though
i wouldnt be able

I have offered on my page to attempt to stream the whole thing if I raise over 300. I will say however I dont see why you would
1. think people would scam it,
2. even if they did you are paying money direct to the charity so money would still go to the good cause.

This entirely depends on my connection supporting it.

Only breaks I plan on taking are to go to the kitchen get food and bring it back to the computer, that and toilet breaks.

Jaych1000 · 28-09-2012 2:58pm

fionny wrote: »

saiint wrote: »

id donate
but not seeing you do the 24 hour stream
kinda makes me think different
were as most people would stream it for proof ?
goodluck though
i wouldnt be able

I have offered on my page to attempt to stream the whole thing if I raise over 300. I will say however I dont see why you would
1. think people would scam it,
2. even if they did you are paying money direct to the charity so money would still go to the good cause.

This entirely depends on my connection supporting it.

Only breaks I plan on taking are to go to the kitchen get food and bring it back to the computer, that and toilet breaks.

Good stuff.

I guess the non Internet donations could be scammed but you'd want to be pretty low to scam a charity.

Even though The money's going to charity, i still think people want to know that they're sponsoring your efforts.

fionny · 28-09-2012 3:24pm

Fair enough, I wouldnt be able to live myself cheating out of it anyway!

Jaych1000 · 28-09-2012 4:49pm

I agree.
Sure it's going to be a good bit of craic!

Jaych1000 · 28-09-2012 8:10pm

Sorry, I don't want to be completely hijacking this thread, but it would be great if people could print this poster and stick it up around their office, local shop, college, etc. Cheers

Jaych1000 · 28-09-2012 10:10pm

Could be going on FM104 now to promote this!

EDIT: The station didn't call me back

fionny · 03-10-2012 11:49am

Taylor365 · 05-10-2012 8:45am

Hmmm..

I was thinking of doing this...

..drunk..

..with the odd break to play a football match.

fionny · 05-10-2012 8:58am

Taylor365 wrote: »

Hmmm..

I was thinking of doing this...

..drunk..

..with the odd break to play a football match.

Drunk belt away be tough to stay awake!

Watching Football would hardly count though

Taylor365 · 05-10-2012 9:12am

I didn't say watching....

saiint · 05-10-2012 9:38am

dreamers75 wrote: »

Because you would watch it for 24 hours to make sure you got your moneys worth?

Do your own and i will stream it for you if you raise €500

in HD an all.

www.ustream.com get an android phone connected via wifi and place it behind you for the duration.

i wouldnt watch eh for 24 hours, but over the period of the day id watch it, probably 4-5 hours overall maybe more when it starts getting late
as well as most people watching it would be from the eu and america so times forwatching it would be able for everyone

sorry if i hurt your feelings pal but your having a go at me for nothing haha
i dont object to what hes doing, i appreciate it, but as we all know their are low lifes out their that do scam
why do you think no one gives their creditcard details to charity on streets? because most people know it will more then likly go towards funding the people on the street working for them, cause they dont volunteer they get paid to do it.
i dont think hes a scammer, but im just saying as well as many others will agree id like to see the stream , gives me something to watch

and would make the experience more enjoyable for him since people will be able to chat with him whiles he doing it and make others who are doubthful donate.
i wouldnt do 24 hours
already said that wouldnt be able, as well as my bills are high enough as is
any more problems you have with my post? feel free to pick them out

cause im in no way accusing him of being a scammer

Sabre0001 · 05-10-2012 11:26am

Hmmmmm...I've always been tempted to do something like this. Could be perfect timing (especially as I've recently learned how to do a basic low-grade stream). Might have to give it a bash on the 20th!

Pyr0 · 05-10-2012 12:44pm

Gives me an excuse to game for 24 hours again!

Jaych1000 · 07-10-2012 9:03pm

saiint wrote: »

i wouldnt watch eh for 24 hours, but over the period of the day id watch it, probably 4-5 hours overall maybe more when it starts getting late
as well as most people watching it would be from the eu and america so times forwatching it would be able for everyone

sorry if i hurt your feelings pal but your having a go at me for nothing haha
i dont object to what hes doing, i appreciate it, but as we all know their are low lifes out their that do scam
why do you think no one gives their creditcard details to charity on streets? because most people know it will more then likly go towards funding the people on the street working for them, cause they dont volunteer they get paid to do it.
i dont think hes a scammer, but im just saying as well as many others will agree id like to see the stream , gives me something to watch and would make the experience more enjoyable for him since people will be able to chat with him whiles he doing it and make others who are doubthful donate.
i wouldnt do 24 hours
already said that wouldnt be able, as well as my bills are high enough as is
any more problems you have with my post? feel free to pick them out cause im in no way accusing him of being a scammer

Wow, I didn't think anyone would watch it for that long. I understand what you mean about scamming it though. The way Extra Life have set it up though, it's unlikely to be scammed - once we registered, we were given a donations page under their domain name.

I'll try get the stream going but think that the connection won't hold enough for us to have a decent online connection. Thanks for the interest!

Everybody, please register yourselves! Raise money for the sick kids! Your goal can even be €50. All money towards the hospitals counts.

Jaych1000 · 14-10-2012 11:02pm

Hey guys. Only 5 days left until I challenge myself to this 24 hour gaming marathon. Please show some love for the sick kids in Temple Street by donating at: http://www.extra-life.org/participant/TheThreeEejits

Any amount of donation (even €1!) is hugely appreciated! We're miles off our target but we've gathered a bit of money for the kids.
If you'd prefer to send a cash donation by post, please private message me and I'll give you an address to send it to.

I've heard from so many people that Temple Street are great at looking after their kids and provide excellent facilities to help kids get through their sick times. That's why we're desperately trying to fund raise on their behalf! Thanks for reading.

quarryman · 14-10-2012 11:40pm

Done. Few more quid there.

But you really need to get off your ass and raise more than that. How many friends and family have walked up to with a donation form and a pen? How many work mates? Neighbours? You have to get in people's faces to raise the cash. I know, I've done it - raised money for temple street too.

Asking penniless gamers in forums are strangers to you will gain very little.

Fair play for making the effort but how much of your own cash have you put in? Or the other 2 guys in the photo? After 1 month of fund-raising its a poor show so far.

Get the finger out get that bar closer to your target and go up to people. Also there's no point saying "I've heard the hospital gets the kids through their 'sick times'" is completely detached. Go there, visit the kids, show them how you're raising money. They'll love it.

More effort!

Jaych1000 · 15-10-2012 12:58am

quarryman wrote: »

Done. Few more quid there.

But you really need to get off your ass and raise more than that. How many friends and family have walked up to with a donation form and a pen? How many work mates? Neighbours? You have to get in people's faces to raise the cash. I know, I've done it - raised money for temple street too.

Thanks a million, Quarryman! You've raised a few good points there. I'll have to be a bit more proactive in getting some donations. Thanks for the advice and extra kick.

quarryman wrote: »

Fair play for making the effort but how much of your own cash have you put in? Or the other 2 guys in the photo? After 1 month of fund-raising its a poor show so far.

One of our team has donated. I'm going to donate closer to the end date. It is a bit of a poor show but I've tried putting up posters and getting on the radio. I emailed every popular radio station in Ireland and heard no response from any of them. I'll try get on FM104 again tomorrow.

quarryman wrote: »

Get the finger out get that bar closer to your target and go up to people. Also there's no point saying "I've heard the hospital gets the kids through their 'sick times'" is completely detached. Go there, visit the kids, show them how you're raising money. They'll love it.

I've had the idea to go to the hospital. I was wondering would the hospital actually let me in though? I'll try get up there tomorrow.

Also, we're hosting a coffee morning on Thursday for the locals in order to fund raise. We have a deal with the local take away for a free meal draw with each donation.

But ultimately you're right. We need to get more "in your face" about it.

quarryman · 15-10-2012 1:31am

Well you have my few quid anyway, best of luck with it.

But get proactive. People won't put their hands in their pockets unless they have to. Posters, emails etc are easy to avoid. Walk up to people and convince them. Get them to sign in front of you.

Definitely call into the hospital. Print up the charity page. List the games you plan to play. Look organised and they might let you visit a couple of wards if you're nice. Take some photos and then use that to raise more cash. People will be able to see where it's going.

fionny · 15-10-2012 9:01am

Likewise I am gearing up for the big day!

www.extra-life.org/participant/fionn

I plan to stream especially seen as Extra Life are giving platinum members a free premium sub to XSplit

Will post the stream link here provided it works okay!

Any donations big or small would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Jaych1000 · 15-10-2012 9:27am

quarryman wrote: »

Well you have my few quid anyway, best of luck with it.

But get proactive. People won't put their hands in their pockets unless they have to. Posters, emails etc are easy to avoid. Walk up to people and convince them. Get them to sign in front of you.

Definitely call into the hospital. Print up the charity page. List the games you plan to play. Look organised and they might let you visit a couple of wards if you're nice. Take some photos and then use that to raise more cash. People will be able to see where it's going.

Appreciate the advice, quarryman. I'll get myself more proactive for the week. Must get myself a bit more organised. Thanks again for donating.

Best of luck to you, fionny! :-)

fionny · 15-10-2012 10:19am

You too Jaych & co.

fionny · 18-10-2012 10:40am

Providing my connection holds up I will be running a low res stream here:
http://www.twitch.tv/fionnyanseo

Com's will be 18+ as Im not one for censoring myself :P

Anyone who might like to throw me a few bob can do so here:

www.extra-life.org/participant/fionn

thanks,

Jaych1000 · 19-10-2012 9:33pm

The list of games we have for tomorrow:
Viking, Frontline, Tekken 6, Blue Dragon, Dante's Inferno, Arkham City, Battlefield 3, Fight Night Round 4, Halo 3, Resident Evil Operation Racoon City, Master's Golf Game, Fifa 2012, Forza 4, Gears of War 1, Max Payne 3, Deux Ex Human Resolution, Halo Reach, Just Cause 2, Smackdown vs Raw 2011, The Darkness 2, GTA Liberty City, Madden 2011, Halo Anniversary, Gears of War 3, Arkham Asylum, and Bulletstorm.

We should be setting up a live stream if the connection holds up. If it works, we'll provide a link.

fionny · 20-10-2012 7:03am

My live stream is here:

www.twitch.tv/fionnyanseo

Will try and leave run as long as web connection holds up. If it affect Multiplayer games I will have to drop it.

fionny · 20-10-2012 8:09am

Sorry folks its fragging the hell out of my connection if im playing a multiplayer making it unplayable (only have 1meg upload at best), sorry! Will try and remember to turn on for single player games.

Sabre0001 · 20-10-2012 8:23am

Best of luck to all taking part today!

tuxy · 21-10-2012 12:05pm

I checked in on a few twitch streams for this event. Most people looked really miserable and bored. Some complained of eye strain and headaches.

Why do people do this? There must be a more enjoyable way to raise money.

Jaych1000 · 21-10-2012 6:16pm

I think eye strain and headaches are normal when you're playing games constantly for 24 hours.
I can't speak for those people you checked in on, but I know that when I play games, I generally look miserable and disinterested too. It's just because the games are engaging and take all of your attention. My brain would react to emotions in the game and I wouldn't display them as facial expressions.

I have to say, I really enjoyed doing this! My two friends got headaches early on, which subsided after a few hours. I was lucky not to get one. The only thing that was difficult was combating the tiredness during the final few hours. Other than that, it was a lot of fun!!

How did you get on, fionny?

fionny · 21-10-2012 6:41pm

This was my second year doing it, was tough as usual for the last 5 or so hours. Was hanging for sleep and as the clocked ticked to 8am I was gone to bed like a hot snot!

Its fun until the late hours where my brain just wanted to shut off. It was a less then ideal weekend for me also seen as I finished my old job on Friday and start a new one on Monday, need to catch up on my sleep tonight! Not sure if I will do it for a third year or not. Im thinking Movember next year instead.

Extra Life - 24hour Gaming for Charity

Comments