Topic: Humble Bundle presents Mojam

[idolminds]

This one is very different.

Mojang (Minecraft) has teamed up with Humble Bundle for a charity/game dev event. For the next 60 hours they are live streaming the development of a brand new game, the theme and genre of which was voted on by people in the last couple days. The winner was "a real-time strategy shoot 'em up with a steampunk ancient Egypt theme". Yeah. So you give a little money, all of it goes to a selection of 4 charities, and you'll get the game they are making at the end.

Its a weird one. I might throw a buck or two at it just to see what the end result is. Maybe.

[TheOtherBelmont]

This is so weird.  I'm going to be throwing some money their way for sure just to see what they end up finishing.

[idolminds]

Others are joining in.

Wolfire (creators of Humble Bundle as well as Overgrowth) is going to make a game with the same theme and genre as Mojang, while Oxeye (Makers of Cobalt, published by Mojang) is going to be doing the second place voted theme and genre...which is a dungeon crawler beat ‘em up set in a post-apocalyptic World War II.

All right, I gave a little. I just want to see what comes out of this.

[TheOtherBelmont]

Mojang already has a playable build of what they've done so far.  They are currently taking a sleep break before getting back to work.