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The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video]

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This is badass. Best of luck to everyone.

Good chance that one or two of these projects will be given a few continuing updates and evolve into a fairly respectable release - and the others will be fun little concepts, and you'll be supporting good devs.

If you're not convinced, go support an indie developer anyway!

Even better, it all goes to charity. I guess that could be bad if you wanted to support the devs, at least with money. :)

It's interesting that they are all programming in Windows, and all using IDEs.

The vast majority of games are made in Windows using an IDE. It's completely unremarkable.

You're a friendly one.

Edit: Parent comment was a snarky elitist "doesn't everyone know that?" comment, and I'm getting downvotes (on -2 right now). There really is a lot elitist bullshit on this site.

In order to be more constructive, what would you have thought they would use? Notepad? nano? edit? TextPad?

I would not have been surprised if one of them was using Linux, for a start. Particularly given that the Humble Bundles make a big deal about the games being cross platform.

I'm not an expert on current gaming development, and it just struck me as interesting. Sorry I spoke.

One of the developers (Wolfire's David) is building his game using the Unity game engine, which exports to Linux but only runs on OS X and Windows. Other engines / development environments like Unreal and Flash are similarly unavailable on Linux. The same is true of most 3D modelling and image editing packages.

The tools simply aren't available to make Linux an attractive game development environment.

I don't want to sound like an ass, but the parent comment was right. Now, I understand if you thought the comment was snarky, but your comeback was even worse.

Will the "making of" videos be available to purchasers? That would be an incredible resource for anyone wanting to learn to make games...

http://www.twitch.tv/mojang/videos?kind=past_broadcasts

Thanks!

I watched parts of the first Mojam, it was educational!

No Notch coding this time though?

Definitely educational. Sad I missed the start though. I'm hoping somebody caps it for watching later.

They are doing it like the last one, it will be preserved at http://www.twitch.tv/mojang/videos?kind=past_broadcasts. Unfortunately, still likely to have the pauses for thinking and other things.

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