[Humble Bundle Mojam]

so previously, Humble Bundle included fantastic games created by star quality indie devs, discounted for the sake of charity.

Mojang thinks something they throw together in a few days is worth the same attention, in fact more, because its all by itself? Really?

Call me uninterested. I'm all for charity, but this demeans the Humble Bundle team's work IMO. Mojang isn't special, as pointed out, they were too good to put their game in the bundles, now they want attention for something they are just throwing together. At least the money is going to charity, supposedly (Mojang doesn't need any more money)

Besides, I dont think they could create anything that isn't half finished and riddled with bugs in that short ammount of time, given their pretty terrible track record

On the one hand, you're absolutely right. There's no reason why a Mojang jam game would be anything special, and do have a serious sort of ego complex going on. The one guy in the video who goes "We're live streaming it for sixty hours... Live!" is clearly thinking this is some revolution that only Mojang is capable of. And it's not.

But on the other hand, people honestly seem to care. When Notch did a live stream during one of the Ludum Dare jams, he made headlines. People around the world tuned in to see him work, never mind that the game he made was basically Minecraft again.

So I don't mind Humble Bundle going in on this. I dislike Mojang for their cheap self-promotion, but the Bundle will make a lot more money for charity, which is kind of it's raison d'être. Can't really fault them for it.

Plus: steampunk ancient Egypt? This I want to see.

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