Since January 7, Forest fires were burning their way across Los Angeles. The effects are destroyed, with the destruction of more than 16,000 homes, drinking polluted water, and killing more than twenty people. Since the population has long been trying to rebuild, relief in all its forms came from donations to the American Red Cross to the people who offer the Gofundme efforts for individual families. Soon, those who are looking for help will have a new way to give: by buying a Video game package.
California Fire Relift package is the work of Indie Studio Necrosoft games and a group of volunteers, Brandon Sheffield, company manager, to collect the package. From 12 to 19 January, they collected 422 games – including popular titles such as jacketand Octodad: Dadliest CatchAnd HawaOn the independent game platform ITCH.IO. From these, Sheffield says, the collective aims to create a fire relief package in California, which will sell it for about $ 10 for pop, at a good price for hundreds of addresses. The package revenue, which aims to launch “ASAP”, will go to relief efforts aimed at helping the Los Angeles residents to return to their feet financially.
“I have seen a lot [people] “Get his price because it can be a costly place to live,” says Sheffield, a California citizen. “So when a fire like this reduces total housing, the angel inspires an increase in prices, and gets unlucky people in more vulnerable locations, it seems that those of us in stable living situations must do everything we can.”
Los Angeles occupies a special place in the heart of the video game industry. It is home to hundreds of developers and studios such as Riot, Naughty Dog games and Santa Monica Studio. Before the E3 was closed, the city of Los Angeles has long been at the conference. It is the game and place prizes for many of the smaller annual game events. Sheffield says this bond is due to this link, as developers intervene everywhere to help.
But there is another reason: climate change. The world of warming Increased probability California forest fires. The same applies to hurricanes and other natural disasters. For video game developers, who are at their work Having a large carbon fingerprintSheffield says these environmental effects are a “great deal for everyone”.
“This crisis deeply affected our teams, as some rioters lost their homes and many are still sitting,” Riot wrote in A. statement About fires. The game company has also announced its collection of its donations in the game evaluation and league of legends. Other video game companies such as Activision and Sony They also donate relief efforts.
According to a recent report issued by the organizers of the game developers conference, 16 percent of the DEVS surveyed said that they were affected by natural disasters last year. Seventy -three percent of the respondents in the “game industry case” a reportThe organizers wiped more than 3000 people, identified that they were affected by water -related accidents, including hurricanes, floods and storms. One of the developers in Florida wrote: “Hurricane Milton caused some damage to a home office, causing a lot of unexpected financial hardship,” said one of the developers in Florida. “I am no longer able to pour money into my work as much as I did before.”