SCS is holding a video game marathon to raise money to build our school! Sound like more fun that it should be? Don’t worry – it’s not fun! Not for the people that have to play, anyway!

The idea is to get our hands on the world’s worst, most boring video game. The more money you donate, the longer our volunteers have to play! How long can you force us to play the world’s worst video game with your donations?

Good news! A donor has generously agreed to match 50% of the first $1000 we raise! This means that for every dollar you donate, an extra $0.50 will go toward our cause… and toward our next hour of marathon game playing!

Hours “Donated” So Far: 63!
Amount Needed to Reach Hour 64: $23.69

About the Game

We went to the Game Developer’s Club at RIT with one question: can you make us the world’s most boring video game? And boy, did they deliver! The game is called Old Man Ranting, and it’s just the player trying to stay awake (by jiggling their computer mouse) while the character’s grandfather rants and raves. If the player fails, it takes a minute to wake up, and the grandfather yells! Can our club members stand up to the challenge for hours on end? Come by the fundraiser and see!

About the Event

The marathon will begin at 5pm, May 7th, in the lobby of Gracie’s, the main dining hall on RIT’s campus, and go as long as your donations dictate! The first hour will cost $1 in donations, with each hour costing 8% more (so hour two will cost $1.08, etc.) . Our club members will man the game in 2-4 hour shifts, playing continuously throughout the night and days to follow, for as long as your donations keep us going! But to proceed, each hour must be fully funded before it starts. So for example, if we only raised $3, we would only play for 2 hours, because it would take $3.25 to get us to play for 3 hours. (Of course, we hope to raise a lot more than just $3, so we’re planning to play a lot longer than that!)

Don’t have time to come visit (and heckle) us while we play? Or maybe you’re not local, but would like to see us suffer anyway? We’ll have streaming video set up, so you can heckle us from afar! Check out our Ustream page for live webcam and chat, now!

About Donations

SCS will begin accepting donations 10am, Monday May 4th, and continue right through the fundraiser. A table will be set up in the Student Alumni Union to accept donations, Monday-Thursday 10am-4pm. We’ll also be accepting donations online starting at 10am on Monday – visit the donation page for details. We’ll take donations via PayPal (including credit cards) and Revolution Money Exchange.

We’d be remiss if we didn’t give credit to LoadingReadyRun’s Desert Bus for Hope, which inspired this innovative fundraiser by playing the also-obnoxious video game “Desert Bus” on end to raise money for the charity Child’s Play. We have our own take on the idea, but you guys are awesome for coming up with the idea, and raising so much for a worthy cause!