The subsequent main Games Done Quick occasion, January’s Awesome Games Done Quick, can be an online-only occasion after the present’s organisers launched an announcement saying, “We do not believe [Florida] is a safe place for our community,” in gentle of the state’s putrid insurance policies in the direction of Covid and marginalised people.

While the Summer Games Done Quick occasion made a triumphant return to a reside occasion with crowds in July, AGDQ—whose final reside version was in 2019 on the DoubleTree Hilton in Orlando—had for 2023 “secured a contract with a venue in Florida,” an settlement that has now been ditched in gentle of the organiser’s determination.

Here’s their assertion in full (emphasis mine):

AGDQ2023 returns reside, on-line from January eighth to the fifteenth, 2023, benefiting the Prevent Cancer Foundation!

While we might like to return in-person, we’ve decided that to offer a secure and welcoming occasion to all it was finest that we transfer away from our initially deliberate location in Florida.

Given the state’s continued disregard for COVID-19’s risks (together with anti-mandate vaccination insurance policies) and an elevated aggression in the direction of LGBTQ+ people, together with the regulation colloquially often known as “Don’t Say Gay,” we don’t consider it’s a secure place for our neighborhood presently.

Immediately after the success of AGDQ 2020, we secured a contract with a venue in Florida to return in 2021. Since the worldwide pandemic was declared, we postponed in-person occasions till it was secure to return.

We’ve explored a number of choices which might enable us to stay in-person by relocating to a safer location. Unfortunately, the price required to cancel our contract is just too nice to justify relocating AGDQ whereas paying the cancellation payment, and we’re now not capable of delay our contract. This finally led us to maneuver AGDQ 2023 on-line.

While the transfer to on-line will enable us to avoid wasting on bills, we nonetheless have appreciable prices to get better. We need to get better that cash the place potential, together with with neighborhood assist through Twitch subs. We thank the neighborhood for his or her assist!

It’s a disgrace the transfer has price them, however hopefully the 2024 occasion can discover someplace the workforce is extra snug calling residence. Note this doesn’t have an effect on Summer Games Done Quick, which since 2018 has been held on the DoubleTree Hilton in Bloomington, Minnesota.