Today is World IBD Day, a day recognized globally to raise awareness for Inflammatory Bowel Disease, which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. These chronic illnesses affect millions of people around the world—causing pain, fatigue, and daily challenges that can often be invisible to others.
At Gaming4Guts, we’re more than just a group of gamers—we’re a community built around purpose. Since 2014, we’ve united players, streamers, and supporters to help raise both funds and awareness for those living with IBD. What began as a small grassroots effort has now grown into a movement that’s raised over $70,000 for IBD-related causes.
Why We Game
We game to bring attention to the everyday realities of life with IBD.
We game to raise funds for research, better treatments, and patient support.
We game to honor loved ones—our friends, our families, and especially the moms, dads, siblings, and partners who inspire us to keep going.
For many of us, this cause is deeply personal. Whether you live with IBD yourself or support someone who does, you’re part of a community that understands the strength it takes to fight an invisible illness.
How You Can Help
🎮 Join a stream during one of our #Gaming4Guts events.
💙 Donate to support IBD research and care.
📢 Share stories to spread awareness and understanding.
🧑🤝🧑 Connect with our community—especially through our Discord server built for gamers with IBD.
On this IBD Day, we reflect, we raise our voices, and—we keep gaming. For awareness. For advocacy. For a cure.
Thank you for standing with us.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Happy Thanksgiving from Gaming4Guts!
We at Gaming4Guts want to take a moment to wish you and your loved ones a joyful and gratitude-filled Thanksgiving. Today, we’re especially thankful for our incredible community of supporters who have stood by us year after year. Your dedication, passion, and generosity fuel our mission to raise awareness and funds for those living with Crohn’s and Colitis.
As you celebrate this holiday, we also want to remind you that our 10th annual Gaming4Guts event is just around the corner! From December 6th to 8th, join us for an exciting weekend of gaming and fundraising in support of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Whether you’re a streamer, a viewer, or a donor, there’s a way for everyone to get involved and make a difference.
Mark your calendars, spread the word, and get ready for an unforgettable event! Together, we can continue to raise awareness and support for those living with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
Thank you for being part of the Gaming4Guts family. We hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Stay tuned for updates, and we’ll see you soon!
Gaming4Guts 2024 Gameathon!
🚨 Calling all Streamers! 🚨
🎮 Join the Gaming4Guts Gameathon 2024! 🎮
📅 When: December 6th – 8th
💪 What: 72 hours of epic gaming, all for a cause that matters.
💖 Why: Every dollar raised supports the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation in their mission to find cures for Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
We’re bringing together the gaming community to play, donate, and raise awareness for people affected by these conditions. We want YOU to be part of this incredible event! Whether you’re into casual streaming, speedrunning, or hardcore competitive play, we need your voice and your followers to make a difference!
💰 100% of proceeds go to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation!
🏆 Amazing prizes, community, and a chance to make an impact!
✨ How to get involved:
1️⃣ Sign up today to stream and fundraise.
2️⃣ Spread the word with your community.
3️⃣ Help raise funds for life-saving research.
4️⃣ Have a blast while doing good!
🌐 Sign up here: https://tilt.fyi/1lh8NMZfpE
Let’s unite the gaming community for a cause that affects millions. Together, we can make this year’s Gaming4Guts Gameathon the best one yet!
Gaming4Guts Founder Interview With Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
Rob Barkoo was nominated for a Volunteer Leadership award through the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation! We are all so proud and excited to see this interview with him!
Gaming4Guts 2023
Our 2023 campaign is live! You can use the QR code or you can check out our Tiltify page here. This page has both a donation link and an ability to create your own campaign to join us in December! All donations go to the Crohns Colitis Foundation!
Gaming4Guts Fundraiser 2022 – December 2nd to 4th
It is that time of year again! Here at Gaming4Guts, we are ramping up for our yearly fundraiser in December. This is year eight for this fundraiser. It has been going strong since 2014 and we look forward to streaming and raising awareness with everyone in December! More details about this year’s theme will be coming out soon so be sure to follow us on social media and sign up for our newsletter!
To sign up to support the campaign you can check out our profile on Tiltify here. You can sign up to host your own stream, donate or help share what we are doing here at Gaming4Guts!
We’re fighting IBD, one game at a time and we look forward to seeing all of you in December!
Move Night at Gaming4Guts
This year here at Gaming4Guts we decided to do more community-oriented activities for everyone in our Discord community to participate in. We were able to add a movie bot to the Discord server to be able to keep track of poll results and the movie list. Our first movie night this year took place back in February. The first movie we watched was The Fifth Element. Since then every month we run a poll on the Discord server for 48 hours on the first weekend of every month. During that time everyone gets an opportunity to vote on the poll, add movies to the list to be watched, and then the winner is announced. We host these movie nights on the fourth Saturday every month where the community gathers in the movie night Discord channel; watching the week’s newest movie trailers like a traditional theatre giving folks a little extra time to make it in to catch the show.
This month we are watching Willow. This event will take place on June 25th at 8:30 pm Eastern/5:30 pm Pacific time. If you can join us please do!
World IBD Day – #GameOverIBD
We are excited to announce that on May 14th we will be celebrating World IBD day by hosting streams all day on Twitch to raise awareness for Inflammatory Bowel Disease! World IBD Day this year is officially on March 19th but we decided to celebrate a little early due to World IBD Day falling during the week. This is when we determined that allows more people to be involved! If you are interesting in joining the Gaming4Guts crew on Tiltify please check out our campaign page here.
We’ve been wanting to do an event around World IBD Day for a few years now. We were finally able to get it done this year. We hope that next year we will give everyone a little more notice than we did this time. Life has just been very busy for all of the administrators over here at Gaming4Guts!
Another thing that is happening on World IBD Day is that the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation will be hosting a gaming event on Tiltify this year! You can find more information about this here on the CCF website. The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation came up with an amazing hashtag for this years event: #GameOverIBD.
Thank you everyone for all of the support over the years. We look forward to seeing everyone’s fundraisers for World IBD Day!
Good Game Cowboy T-Shirts!
We have launched our Good Game Cowboy shirt today! These bad boys are available the next 15 days! The profits from this sale are going to Gaming4Guts to help with upkeep costs for the website and artwork. You can check out the t-shirts here.
Thank you everyone for being on this incredible journey with us. We could not do it without you.
See you space cowboy…
Good Game Cowboy Design Talk
Okay, with the Good Game Cowboy shirt launch going live in the next 12hrs, I thought I’d share a little bit of the process on how we got to the final design.
The gang at Gaming4Guts LOVES ‘Cowboy Bebop’ and have chatted about the subject numerous times. I was putting together the promo materials for Mart-Kos and my G4G show when I thought how neat it would be to actually design a shirt. A new challenge for me. Of course, as a no-brainer, ‘Cowboy Bebop’ would be the inspiration for the first design. I remembered seeing the block coloured theme throughout posters and ads for the anime. We decided that this colour block idea would be the theme. I started by building the framing for our images and it just happened to work out that Dylan had just completed brand new images of myself and Mark that were next level. So next level that they made the older G4G character art look almost unusable.
Some time after we received the new artwork from Dylan, finalising the look for our little group. I couldn’t wait to take these new designs into photoshop and work on finishing this passion project. After trying out a few variations and making some art changes, we had landed on something the group could be proud of. Being in the middle of putting together milestones for our charity event, we quickly decided to make a mystery tier that if unlocked would see us announcing to the world our desires to put out Gaming4Guts merch. Of course, we slammed through all of our milestones, overcoming our 10k goal due to an amazing group of people coming out to support another year of a charity that is so close to our hearts.
As in years previous, the event took most of the gang out of commission so the project would go quiet again but only for a short time. Before finalising the design details, the gang reconvened to discuss what we would name our campaign and how we would go about putting these out into the world and during this time, not only did we finalize all the shirt merch details but Mackenzie knocked out the start of our G4G website and launched our new quarterly newsletter! Together the group threw out several Cowboy Bebop themed end credit style names before landing on Good Game Cowboy which is essentially our version of the, ‘see you space cowboy.’ And with that,
Good Game Cowboy
– Brad [BC]
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