Since January 7, forest fire burned in Los Angeles. The consequences are devastating, with more than 16,000 houses destroyed, drinking water contaminatedAnd more than two dozen people were killed. While longtime residents are trying to rebuild, the emergency services came in all forms, from donations made to the American Red Cross to people giving the efforts of families of individual families. Soon, those who seek to help will have a new way of giving: by buying a Video game bundle.
The California Fire Relief Bundle is the work of Indie Studio Necrosoft games and a collection of volunteers director, Brandon Sheffield, Organized to compile the package. From January 12 to 19, they collected 422 games, including popular titles like Tunic,, OCTODAD: the most daddy wrestlingAnd Hoa—A independent game platform Itch.io. From these, says Sheffield, the collective aims to create the relief pack of Fire California, which he will sell about 10 $ 10 pop, a good price for hundreds of titles. The packaging product, which Sheffield aims to launch “ASAP”, will go to rescue efforts aimed at helping residents of the Los Angeles region to recover financially.
“I saw a lot [people] Get a price because it can be an expensive place to live, ”explains Sheffield, from California. “Thus, when a fire like this reduces total accommodation, inspires owners to do price hikes and hurts people in even more vulnerable positions, it has the impression that those of us in Stable living positions should do everything we can. “
Los Angeles organizes a special place at the heart of the video game industry. It houses hundreds of developers and studios such as Riot Games, Naughty Dog and Santa Monica Studio. Before E3 CloseThe city center was the longtime house of the conference. This is the location of The Awards game And the place of many smaller annual game events. It is partly because of this association, known as Sheffield, that developers from everywhere intervene to help.
But there is another reason: climate change. A warming world is Increase probability Forest fires in California. The same goes for hurricanes and other natural disasters. For video game developers, whose work has its Have a substantial carbon footprintThese environmental impacts are “a big problem for everyone,” says Sheffield.
“This crisis has deeply affected our teams, some rioters losing their homes and many others have still evacuated,” Riot wrote in a statement on fires. The game company has also announced that its own fundraising in the game are held inside Vallard And League of legends. Other video game companies such as Activision and Sony Also give a donation to emergency efforts.
According to A recent report From the Conference of Game Developers organizers, 16% of the developers interviewed said they had been affected by natural disasters in the past year. Sixty-three percent of respondents to “the state of the game industry” reportFor which the organizers interviewed more than 3,000 people, specified that they were affected by water -related incidents, including hurricanes, floods and storms. “Hurricane Milton has done damage to my home office, causing me many unexpected financial difficulties,” a developer wrote in Florida. “I am no longer able to pay money in my business as much as before.”
