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This was the aforementioned 'one more deliverable'. bsky.app/profile/chri...

That was actually a bit of luck: the font we use just about everywhere (Dosis) is *extremely* close to what’s used on Millionaire. Didn’t realize it until I started making the questions lol bsky.app/profile/devd...

Pratchett is logging Twitch chat and is playing animations that correspond the usage of certain emotes, so every instance of the applause animation is because someone used it in chat! bsky.app/profile/muff...

The fonts on the omnibar are courtesy of @chevyray.dev, who even was kind enough to add some extra characters for us! Throw him a follow and support his awesome work.

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oh right. I should probably link our website. That's a good thing to do on stuff like this. supportclass.net

That's all for now - share your questions if you have them, and we will see you *in the future*!

Until that day arrives (and we inevitably have a megathread about it), an EXTRA HUGE shoutout to Lead developer @hatetosayit.com and @mesosupe.bsky.social, @seldszar.fr, and @hoishin.bsky.social for their unending technical excellence. None of this is possible without them.

We have a LOT that we're looking into for future GDQ events, but nothing we can talk about in specifics yet. Redesigned components? Yep. Upgrading more elements to @rive.app? Absolutely.

A whole new framework and design system?

...someday. Hopefully soon. Not sure when. Stay tuned.

There's one more deliverable for #SGDQ2025, but you won't see it until the finale. I'll just say that it's something I've never done before on a professional project, and I'm extremely excited about it.

Additionally, to everyone in the Blue Prince community, we are currently working on making both our changes to Bingus (and the tracker graphic we used on stream) available to everyone. Stay tuned for that - we might need to catch our breath a bit first.

I do want to give shoutouts to Bobbyburm, @radringtail.bsky.social, @flapjackretro.bsky.social, and Gelly for being extremely helpful and supportive through the development process. (And also giving me the foam finger from the interview segment) bsky.app/profile/chri...

A full screenshot of the Blue Prince B Quest run from SGDQ 2025

On top of all that, we had to find a way to fit all of this on a layout without making the text impossible to read. This one took awhile to solve, but we got there in the end.

a grid of squares from a Blue Prince tracker. Squares are either black, blue, red, or white, and have similar colored lines connecting adjacent squares showing paths on the board.

On top of that, we added logic to draw lines connecting rooms when they were both collected by either (or both) players. Game state is now much easier to understand at a glance!

A bird's eye view of a square room with doors on four sides. It's shown four times in four different colors: Black, Blue, Red, and White

Solution: I redesigned the bingo squares to match the style of Blue Prince's overhead view of rooms. If both players have collected a square, it turns white instead of the diagonal colors, since the old design can be confusing geographically for pathing.

The second objective was the design: If you're not familiar with the game or the format of the bingo objective, understanding the 'game state' is difficult, Especially when a square is held by both players. We wanted a clearer way to show the 'path' being drawn by each runner.

The runners accomplished this by stitching together two separate 5x5 bingo boards in Bingus and controlling both side by side. So our first objective: Make that step unnecessary and add support for a single 5x9 board.

A screenshot of a 'bingo' board from Blue Prince "B Quest" mode. Most squares are black, a few are red, a few are blue, and some are both red and blue with a diagonal shape separating the two colors

The Blue Prince was a quasi-Bingo run, where instead of having a standard 5x5 grid of squares, you're playing on a 5x9 grid matching the layout of the mansion in the game. The goal is to cross off squares in a pattern that connects from the bottom center 'START' to the top center 'GOAL' squares.

I am a *huge* fan of Blue Prince. It might be my favorite game of the past decade. When it got added to the schedule, I was simultaneously excited as hell and anxious about how to fit graphical support into our dev plans for the event. Regardless, I wanted to deliver something special.

YouTube video by Games Done Quick Blue Prince by BobbyBurm and RadRingtail in 1:14:30 - Summer Games Done Quick 2025

And then, of course, there was Blue Prince. I have a lot to say, but first I'm going to link the VOD and encourage you to watch (spoilers ahead, and i absolutely encourage you to buy Blue Prince and play it first if puzzle roguelikes are your jam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cirr...

A screenshot from SGDQ 2025, featuring Sonic Adventure 2. 2 gameplay feeds are visible, along with tracker graphics to show which items/emeralds have been collected by each player

...and then we had really fun ones like Sonic Adventure 2, which talked directly with data from Archipelago.

Getting everything on screen in a way that was both legible and comprehensive was a fun challenge.

A screenshot of gameplay from Summer Games Done Quick 2025 featuring 4 players playing through Monster Hunter Wilds. 2 gameplay screens are visible

Gameplay layouts! We did a few new ones! Some were pretty simple, like "Widescreen 2, 4 Nameplates, Co-op"...

The other game show content we contributed to was the Community Clash hosted by @bryonato.bsky.social and Viz, which we built custom software for.

(Did I mention we build a lot of game show systems, and even design them too? Let us help with yours!)

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A screenshot from the GDQ pre-show. Kungfufruitcup and SpikeVegeta have bewildered expressions as the host reads a question that barely qualifies as a quiz question. "Deltarune is the event closer this SGDQ, and has recently seen the addition of two new chapters. When we met in the green room an hour ago, I divulged a deep, dark truth about myself. What was it? A: I LOVE eat pencils B: I would NEVER eat a pencil, how dare you C: When I was 11 years old, my goldfish Orange Juice died, and my dad looked me in the eyes and told me it was my fault. BrutalMelo is greenscreened into the bottom left corner of the shot for reasons I still don't 100% understand.

The Interview team put together a Millionaire-style quiz for the opening segment, and I got some overlays put together during setup. Some of the questions veer into the delirious.

All of this was done with Figma and was essentially an image slideshow, which worked just fine.

As for the layouts themselves, we still had some fun work ahead of us. A number of custom layouts, a couple of game shows, and the requisite amount of polish that comes along with every GDQ broadcast. Starting with the pre-show...

We're still collecting data on the new flow and will have plenty to discuss in regards to how to make improvements and further refine the extension. (Donation messages support? Mobile extension? External web option? etc. etc.)

As May notes, all of this was the work of a lot of people coordinating to solve an endless number of design and code puzzles, and she deserves massive kudos for leading that effort 🎉

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A screenshot from Twitch that says "Doctors Without Borders - We've raised $81,769.28"

With half a day left in the marathon, we've received over $80k through the new user flow, which is a huge win for charity!

A screenshot of GDQ's twitch broadcast featuring the donation twitch extension

In order to retain support for those actions, we developed a new Twitch Extension that communicates with both the GDQ tracker and the Twitch API. When you donate, the Extension comes to life and gives you a set amount of time to supply that info.

Making a donation to GDQ has multiple facets. You need to be able to select incentives, we need contact info in case you win a prize, and we need to know if you've made multiple donations for some of the grand prize eligibility. Twitch's integrated donation process doesn't include that data.

For *our* contribution to this effort, we integrated the Twitch Charity Tool into our donation flow. Allowing people to donate without even leaving the Twitch page has obvious benefits. But it's not a simple job...