From 7 January, Forest fire Los is burning its way through Angeles. Later with destroying more than 16,000 houses, it is disastrous, Drinking water CorruptAnd more than two dozen people were killed. As long as there are long attempts to rebuild residents, relief in all forms, from donations made to American Red Cross to people who give gofundme efforts of individual families. Soon, people who help will have a new way to give: by purchasing one Video game bundle,
California Fire Relief Bundle is the work of Indi Studio Necrosoft Games and a collection of volunteers of the company Director brandon sheffield Organized to compile the bundle. From 12 January to 19 January, he collected 422 Games- which included popular titles Tunic, Octodade: dadly catchAnd Hoa-The democratic game platform itch.io. From those, Sheffield says, the objective is to create a California Fire Relief Bundle, which he will sell at a good price for about $ 10 per pop, hundreds of titles. The bundle moves beyond the bundle, which aims to launch the goal of the Sheffield “ASAP”, will go for relief efforts to help the residents of the Los Angeles-field financially back to their feet.
“I have seen many [people] Sheffield, a native of California, says, “It can be an expensive place to live.” So when such a fire reduces the total housing, motivates the landlords to increase the price, and unheard people It takes to even more weak positions, it seems that whatever we can do in stable positions. “
Los Angeles holds a special place in the center of the video game industry. It is home to hundreds of developers and studios such as riot games, mischievous dog and Santa Monica Studio. First E3 closedThe downtown la conference was home for a long time. This is the place Sports awardAnd site for many small annual sports programs. This is in part due to that association, Sheffield says that developers everywhere are taking steps to help.
But there is another reason: climate change. Is a hot world Possibility is increasing Wildfire in California. The same storm and other natural disasters are true. For video game developers, whose job is Sufficient carbon footprintThis environmental impact “is a great thing for everyone,” shefield says.
The riot wrote, “This crisis has deeply impressed our teams, some rioters have lost their homes and many others have still vacated,” the riot wrote. statement About fire. The game company also announced to be held within its own in-game funds Dramatic And League of LegendsOther video game companies like Activism and Sony They are also donating for relief efforts.
As A recent report From the organizers of the Game Developers Conference, 16 percent of the gods said in the survey that they would be affected by natural disasters in the previous year. Seventy percent of respondents of “sports industry status” ReportFor which the organizers surveyed over 3,000 people, specified that they were affected by water -related incidents including storms, floods and storms. A developer in Florida wrote, “Hurricane Milton did some harm in my house office, causing me a very unexpected financial difficulty.” “I am not able to put money in my business anymore as much as I had done before.”