In case you've been living under a rock or have an equally as boring excuse then you may have missed out on the phenomena of "Mojam". humblebundle. com is a website that once every so often has indie packs which users can literally pay what they want for, however this "bundle" was very different from the last. 'Mojam' was a 60 hour Gamejam which basically means there aim was to create a game within 60 hours and others were welcome to join them. Before the event began you could tell it was going to special because Mojang allowed their fan-base to decide on the theme and genre of the game, which of course is very risky on the Internet (especially when one genre is "Peter Molyneux"). Oddly enough the fan-base chose the real time strategy genre and the theme of steampunk...good luck Mojang.
The reason this is impressive is because they couldn't even plan any aspect of the game beforehand because they only just found out what the games genre was hours before. The first night of the stream
contained a party like atmosphere as they slowly began working on the project. By the second day they had decided on a name "Catacomb Snatch" which was of course followed by "Thats what she said" and "lolwat" because lets face it... it does kinda sound like a euphemism.
The end result was a fantastic game created in java which took roughly 60 hours, this may not sound like much but the game is actually unique and fun to play. 81,574 bundles were bought with the buyers being able to pay any fee they deemed fit, they raised $458,224.95... ALMOST HALF A MILLION DOLLARS. Whether you like the guys at Mojang or not they have raised almost half a million dollars for charity in such a small amount of time. The largest contributer was "HumbleBrony Bundle" who donated $2222.22 along with others who donated over a thousand dollars.
The game has a few flaws but it was made within a weekend, it's great to play and if Mojang put it up for sale with updates for charity i would strong suggest you buy it. Also remember to keep checking humblebundle for the most up to date bundles and if you like what you see please buy, they help developers grow and help others through charity.
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Jack.
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