Enormous bundles of video games on the itch.io retailer are continuously used as a method of elevating cash for charitable causes. Usually, they allow you to set your personal value (above a particularly affordable minimal), and the proceeds go to varied charities and organizations. The brand new Queer Video games Bundle is slightly completely different. Every buy prices $60, and the cash goes on to the LGBTQ builders who made the greater than 500 video games which might be included. As of this writing, the bundle has revamped $17,000. Whether or not you’re occupied with visible novels, a card recreation about mech pilots, and even need to learn a information on methods to make your personal online game, this bundle’s received all of it.
In response to the itch.io web page, the proceeds will go to the entire builders who contributed to the bundle. Therefore the AAA price ticket, although once more, for the value of 1 full-price AAA recreation, you’re getting a whopping 500 handcrafted works right here. The organizers hope that the proceeds will “nurture our various queer arts neighborhood, [and] fund the creation of the following nice recreation you like.” The bundle additionally provides a sliding scale choice that begins at $10 for individuals who can’t afford to pay $60. The proceeds shall be evenly break up between all builders who opted-in to obtain a portion of the gross sales, no matter what number of video games they contributed.
It’s clear that initiatives like this will have an effect in cultivating the event of queer and unbiased video games. BáiYù was the lead developer for the micro visible novel Weltschmerz and a programmer on the psychological horror recreation Up All Evening, each of that are included within the bundle. He informed Kotaku that it was the gross sales from final yr’s Queer Video games Bundle that supported him via the event of Weltschmerz. And up to now, this bundle’s gross sales are outpacing the earlier yr’s:
Kaiju Noir, one other recreation included within the bundle, is a “pulp fiction” visible novel about large monster detectives. The developer Kaiju submitted the sport demo to final yr’s assortment after discovering out about it via Discord. They informed Kotaku that it felt “proper” to incorporate the total recreation within the Queer Video games Bundle this yr. Each BáiYù and Kaiju came upon in regards to the bundle via word-of-mouth, and so they plan to make use of their platforms to develop the undertaking.
You should buy the bundle till July 5.
