Media Kit

Linked below are all of our assets available for download.

Credit for assembling information and the format of this streamer packet goes to Kaeon and LostLake86 of Defeating Games for Charity Organizing Committee.  Please consider supporting their charitable causes as well!

Streamer Packet

WOWIE-ZOWIE! Thank-a you so much for joining us in raising money for March of Dimes!

The following will provide streaming settings that we ask that you utilize and some advice and information in regards to Tilitify and its platform.  If you have further questions please reach out to Kody (NerdXD) at kody@nerdxd.com.  You can also reach out in the Mario Mania discord to either Kody, Wildwood, Tinderly, NerdAtArt, or SuperNintendad.

We also highly recommend joining the Mario Mania Discord to stay informed as we will be doing participant meetings, releasing general information, and updates regularly.

Please, if able and willing, promote the event as much as you can via streams, your own discord servers, and social media channels.  Your promotion can go a long way to help in driving more money to March of Dimes and helping moms and babies everywhere get the best start in life!

Getting Started

Let this document serve as a guide to help you get a start preparing for Mario Mania.  Use the various sections of this guide to complete your set-up and make sure that you are ready for the event.

Join the Mario Mania Discord
Join the Mario Mania Tiltify Team
Setup your Stream, Recording and Broadcast Settings
Incorporate Mario Mania art into your stream or social media outreach
Secure a Moderator and Engagement Chatter for your stream
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Perform a Test Stream

Tiltify

Tiltify is a digital fundraising platform that integrates directly with Twitch. All donations are sent directly to March of Dimes. We would ask ALL DONATIONS go though Tiltify. Subs and Bits do not count! This way no money is touched by us. If you get bits or subs during your block it is up to your discretion on what to do with that, but that money will not count toward our goals until it is donated.  Important note, if you do not want to donate that money there is no pressure to do so!

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Join the Campaign

You can join the Tiltify campaign HERE.

Tiltify is a useful platform for getting donations directly to non-profits, the platform does however have some limitations. For most streamers, the best way we’ve found to use this platform is to use the Team Campaign (Mario Mania 2026), rather than an individual campaign, as a central hub for donation related information.

Within the Team Campaign, there are overlays that can be added as browser sources in your broadcasting software (OBS, etc.). The overlays show up-to-date donation totals, live incoming donation information, schedule information and more. Many streamers can use these overlays without the need to create their own campaign or overlays.

Some streamers, however, may want to create their own individual campaign that supports the Team Campaign. We would ask that you do not as there is complex set-up regarding donations totals, incentives, and goals.

Once you’ve been added to the Mario Mania team, you can find the Mario Mania 2026 campaign in My Hub → Teams → Mario Mania.

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Overlays

In a Team Campaign, Tiltify does not display the overlays if the user does not have high level permissions. As a work around, see the list of URLs at the end of this section.

For those who may have access, to display the donation tracker and the live donation information, you can find the overlays on Tiltify by going to Overlays at Team Campaign → Branding → Overlays. Copy the overlay-URL and add it as a browser source in your broadcasting application (OBS, etc.) to display it on your stream.

A Team Campaign supports the creation of up to 10 overlays. If there is a need for an additional community overlay, please contact Kody for help. Pending availability, he will be happy to help create this. If necessary, he will be able to make you a Moderator, giving you permission to create/edit any available overlay. Please do not modify any overlay that is not your own.

Below is a list of the currently available overlays. The most commonly used Tiltify widgets are the Progress Bar and the Alert Box. Add a 1920x1080 browser source for the Progress Bar, a 500x500 browser source for the alert box. Just copy these links below to add them as a browser source.

PROGRESS BAR

ALERT BOX

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Tiltify Panel

There is an additional Tiltify integration directly through Twitch that helps direct viewers to the donation page. After you’ve been added to the campaign, you can add the Tiltify Panel to your Twitch About page.

To do so, go to Twitch Dashboard → Extensions → Discovery → Search for TIltify. Once the Tiltify Extension is added and authenticated, make sure to Select the correct Campaign → click Save → Activate, and you are done. The panel should now appear on your Twitch About page. We encourage you to make the Tiltify panel the first panel during the event.

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Integrations

StreamElements has its own Tiltify integration, for more information CLICK HERE.

StreamLabs has its own Tiltify integration for more information CLICK HERE.

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Donations, Milestones, Incentives

Milestones are subdivisions of the total campaign goal. These are typically used as a way to unlock more content in a traditional marathon. As it stands there will be no need to provide these as we have a limited time frame for this marathon. In future years we may look at adding Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA)/The Lost Levels.

Rewards are PHYSICAL or DIGITAL rewards. It is highly recommended that you DO NOT offer physical rewards. These require shipping and added complications to getting the donor their specified item. It is highly recommended that you DO NOT offer physical rewards. These require shipping and added complications to getting the donor their specified item. If you offer a digital item like an original MP3, a graphic or drawing, etc., please ensure the reward is formatted to get an email address from them.

Polls are options. This incentive is often used as a “bid war” to help decide things happening on screen (IE choosing your character, changing the version of your game, etc.). These can be structured to end before your start time or continue running until the end where viewers have the option to change your game during the run.

Targets are time-based fundraising for a goal. These can be deadlines to reach a specific amount donated before your time slot. (IE, unlock an additional game during my run, make me play with the DK Bongos, turn my monitor upside down, etc.)

If you have an incentive idea please let us know either in Discord or reach out to Kody via e-mail. We can help add details of the incentive to the Tiltify campaign for use in either the team campaign. Please try to be clear about the details of your incentive, including: the incentive type, name, description, options, quantity, start and stop time, etc. Feel free to be as creative with your incentives as you’d like. Don’t feel limited to the examples listed above.

STREAM & TWITCH SETTINGS

Expectations On

Quality

Participants should cap their quality at 1080p-60fps. At this resolution and framerate, Twitch recommends a 6000kbps constant bitrate [CBR]. Suggested broadcasting settings can be found HERE.

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Recording

If you are OK with being included in future marketing for the event, please record your stream locally and turn on recording on Twitch. If you are unable to simultaneously stream and record to your PC, please download the VOD and request access to share it HERE.

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Raids

Make sure that raids are turned on. It’s up to you to select your own criteria for accepting raids, but please make the selection suitable for the marathon. For instance, if you limit who raids into you, select Channels I follow as a criteria, then make sure to follow the Twitch channel that will be raiding into you, before the event starts.

Raid settings can be found by going to your Creator Dashboard → Settings → Stream → Raids.

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Chat Bot

Please ensure that you either VIP or MOD mariomaniabot on Twitch as it will provide updates and links to important items associated with Mario Mania Marathon. The commands are as follows.

!mmabout Mario Mania is a charity marathon featuring 20 games from Mario's canon timeline being played by 20 streamers to support March of Dimes on Mar 27 & 28. Learn more at https://www.mariomaniamarathon.com/

!mmdonate You can donate here: https://www.mariomaniamarathon.com/pages/donate

!mmhelp The Mario Mania Bot has the following commands: !mmabout !mmdonate !mmmod !mmmerch !mmschedule !mmwebsite

!mmmarch March of Dimes is commited to creating the best start in life for moms and babies worldwide! To find out more visit https://www.marchofdimes.org/

!mmmerch https://mariomaniamarathon.com/collections/mario-mania-2026

!mmschedule Check out the schedule here: https://mariomaniamarathon.com/pages/schedule

!mmwebsite https://www.mariomaniamarathon.com/

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Emotes

We will be providing some emotes that you may use for your stream. We do ask that you make at least one of the static ones a follower emote during the event and title them as follows: (static) MM, (static) MoDLove, (animated) MMBlock. For those of you who are not affiliated or partnered, no stress! Use them how you would like. You can download all three of them via the links at the top of this page.

Art & Branding

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Images

You can download the images for event logos along with other media via the links at the top of this page.

Moderation & Engagement

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Moderators

We require that you have a moderator during the event who can help engage chat by dropping links, running polls, or predictions. We also ask your moderator to be familiar with upcoming streamers, incentives and the charity to keep new arrivals in chat informed.

In addition to the moderator, having a friend or fellow streamer who is active in chat really helps with engagement. If you do not have someone for either of those roles, please reach out to Kody, and we will get you one. We also would like to credit and shout out moderators. Please provide us with their username prior to the event.

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Common Twitch Commands

Below are a list of commonly used Twitch commands used by streamers and moderators.

/raid channel This command will send the viewer to another live channel.

/vip username This command will allow you to promote a user to a channel VIP allowing them to post links in the chat.

/mod username This command will allow you to promote a user to a channel moderator allowing them to have access to all of the above commands and features.

Remember to mod or VIP the admin team on twitch for the event.

/mods This command displays a list of the streamers moderators.

/timeout user seconds This command temporarily bans a user from chat.

/ban username This command permanently bans a user from chat.

/unban username This command unbans a user from chat.

/slow seconds This command allows you to set a limit on how often users in the chat room are allowed to send messages (rate limiting).

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Test Stream

We require a test stream for first time participants. This is to test a variety of stream readiness items, such as the chat bot and any Tiltify overlays. If this is your first time participating in a Mario Mania event, please reach out to Kody, TeamWildwood or Tinderly to organize a test stream. If this is not your first time participating in a Mario Mania event but you do not stream regularly, and wish for a member of the Mario Mania group to help test your stream, please feel free to reach out as well.

If you would like further help verifying your stream quality settings, your overlay setup, and feedback on your audio/video or bot commands, please reach out to Kody.

Some of the games will be completed before their time slot is at an end. We ask that you have something small ready on the side to talk about until the end of your block. Please showcase something in the game you are currently playing. Switching between games is not recommended.

Please Utilize As Needed

Test Stream Checklist

☐ Schedule a test stream if needed or new.

☐ Audio and video coming through?

☐ Turn on recording on Twitch.

☐ Raids are turned on?

☐ Raid into a different stream.

☐ Raid out of stream.

☐ /mod or /vip the admins.

☐ Tiltify Account Created.

☐ Tiltify Overlays.

☐ Tiltify Panel.

☐ (Optional) StreamElements or Streamlabs Integration.

☐ Mario Mania Emotes & Logos downloaded and used.

☐ (Post Event) Share your VOD in the shared folder.

We are looking forward to the upcoming Mario Mania marathon and are glad you chose to join us for this event!

Good luck and let’s-a go!