February 21, 2026 | 11AM-11PM ET
Join us on Twitch for our 12-hour fundraiser!
Plus: $20+ donations each hour entered in a raffle for books and other prizes!
**No donation or purchase necessary. See Raffle Rules for more information.
11AM-12PM ET
Jason Scott, Free Range Archivist, Internet Archive
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Opening Ceremonies and Jason Scott's Kitty Korner. Jason will ring in the fundraiser playing a sampling of cat-themed games available in emulation on the Internet Archive.
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12PM-1PM ET
Marie Foulston, Videogame Curator and Creative Director, Good Afternoon
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Rewilding Rumpus: A curated trip through the works of Wild Rumpus and Mild Rumpus, including Bernband (2014) and Proteus (2013).
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1PM-2PM ET
Whit Pow, Game Designer and Assistant Professor of Queer and Trans Media, NYU
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Selections from Trans Games Zine, a community-based platform to promote hybrid games scholarship and game development by and for transgender, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming people.
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2PM-3PM ET
Mike Rugnetta, Podcast Co-Creator and Host, Fun City and Never Post
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Rise of the Dragon (Dynamix, 1990) for Sega CD.
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3PM-4PM ET
Naomi Clark, Game Designer and Professor, NYU Game Center
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Cosmology of Kyoto (Softedge, 1993). Naomi describes this as "a batshit-weird horror game where you wander around in Heian-era Kyoto getting killed over and over" and "the one game that Roger Ebert ever reviewed well."
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4PM-5PM ET
Pat LeMeiux, Professor, UC-Davis; Co-author, Metagaming, Designer, Octopad
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"Home Is Where the House Is": An hour of improvised house music made with a modular synthesizer, ft. samples of various home themes from videogames like Zelda, Animal Crossing, Undertale, Stardew Valley, The Sims, and Gone Home
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5PM-6PM ET
Chad Toprak, Game Designer, Independent Curator, Games Investment Manager at Screen Australia
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Chad explores the unfinished edges of the adventure game Escape from Woomera (2004)
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6PM-7PM ET
Todd Anderson, Co-Director, School for Poetic Computation; Host, Wordhack
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Todd taps in for the OG Magic computer game experience, Magic: The Gathering (Microprose, 1997).
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7PM-8PM ET
Pablo F. Quarta, Narrative Designer & Game Producer,
Assistant Professor, Torcuato Di Tella University
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Pablo takes us on a tour of all the quirks hiding inside Super Smash Bros. Melee on GameCube
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8PM-9PM ET
Rob Dubbin, Game Designer, Brainfruit; Cohost, The Secret Lives of Video Games
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One Hour ZZT Game Jam! Rob will collaborate with the chat to design an original game in the ZZT game development platform.
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9PM-10PM ET
Kendra Albert, Technology Lawyer, Albert Sellers LLC
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Kendra will bring us The Long Dark Survival Run: Time Capsule Edition! Kendra will play increasingly older (and increasingly unplayable!) version histories of The Long Dark, based on how much money the we've raised before their stream and during:
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10PM-11PM ET
Jason Scott, Free Range Archivist, Internet Archive
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Closing Ceremonies and Jason Scott's Sleepy Time Cave of Wonders. Jason will tuck viewers in with games and stories as we ring out the last few dollars we can from the digital ether.
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