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Game store itch.io has setup a big mixed bundle of all sorts to support 'Racial Justice and Equality' and there's a lot of interesting stuff in it.
This might be the biggest bundle ever, with over 700 items included and a minimum donation amount of only $5. It's a ridiculously good deal and for a charitable cause, with all proceeds being split 50/50 between NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund.
As the bundle page states:
We live in a time of racial injustice, inequality, and police brutality against black people. We hope that everyone takes a stand in any way that they can. We’ve partnered with creators from all across our platform to support organizations that are working directly with those affected.
The bundle quickly smashed through $200K and it's now set a new goal at $500K, given the support it has received I would be surprised if it didn't smash that too. Even more projects are going to be added to the bundle, as the itch founder mentioned on Twitter to expect another 185 projects to be added.
I've had a little look over and it's full of great things. There's quite a few wonderful Linux games included like:
- A Short Hike
- Airships: Conquer the Skies
- Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!
- Democratic Socialism Simulator
- Gladiabots
- Haque
- MidBoss
- Minit
- Overland
- Shipwreck
- Super Hexagon
- Tonight We Riot
- Verdant Skies
- + A great many more
There's also game assets from Kenney, plenty of smaller experimental games, the DragonRuby Game Toolkit from game porter and SDL2 software developer Ryan "Icculus" Gordon and game dev Amir Rajan and the list of included bits goes on for hundreds more. It's an incredible deal.
If you do buy it, the bundle will not instantly add everything to your itch library. Instead, you're given a page where you can select from it so that it doesn't overload you.
See the full charity bundle here where it will be open for another 10 days.
Also remember that itch has an open source client that comes in handy.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: Liam DaweThe comments have been cleaned up, again.
As stated earlier, there's no room for inflammatory comments or racism here. There is a clear link to our rules above the comments box I suggest everyone familiarise themselves with and we do moderate. If people post stuff that's clearly aimed to antagonise then do not quote them! Report them by hitting the flag icon and leave them. You make our jobs harder when you keep quoting such comments.
Aha, so this is why the thread had a surprising lack of vitriol. Thanks.
Let's hope this "rebellion" brings real change this time. Feels like we've gone through this cycle every few years, and then nothing really happens.
As a huge sidepoint, Michael Jackson has a few songs that are glorious right now.
QuoteUpdate: The bundle has been a huge success so far and many more developers have submitted their projects. We've added a new round of games & more. All previous and future buyers get instant access. There are now 1,000 projects included.Wow!
JUst by browsing the games proposed I see a few that were on my whish list for a long time...
I picked up several wishlisted games in there!!
Quoting: Liam DaweQuoting: TimeFreezeI could cry. Such an amazing bundle. And i can't buy it.Check your email.
Quoting: tuubiThey seem to have also added some interesting Linux games I didn't see there before, like Lenna's Inception and Mewnbase right on the first page. In fact, there were 25 pages of games the last time I looked, and now there's 34 pages. :O
Now 48 pages! I won't play them all, but there's more than 1400 games on the list now :-)
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