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Game industry hardship fund<br>A bundle hosted by Necrosoft Games Verified Account with content from 109 creators.<br>DRM free<br>Buy 127 items for $10 Regularly ~$1,023 Save 99%!

Raised<br>$69,321.64

Goal<br>$100,000.00

69%<br>of goal<br>4,767<br>contributors<br>$14.54<br>average contribution<br>$2,000.00<br>top contribution

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The game industry has a problem. Too many people are out of work. Reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the last two years, and the jobs they could fill are disappearing as CEOs try to replace them with AI. It's hard for companies to adjust to the new shape of the game industry, but even harder for the people they should be employing.

Just recently we've seen massive layoffs at Ubisoft, Microsoft, and many others, with thousands of game developers, many with 20+ years of experience, out of work.

To address this in some small way, we have created a bundle with almost 150 games. The proceeds of this bundle will go toward a hardship fund for those experiencing layoffs. Individual out of work or under-employed game developers can apply to this fund and use the money for things they need, like food, healthcare, and rent. (This fund is not for companies.)

The fund will be run and dispensed by United Videogame Workers, a union benefiting game developers. They are local 9433 of Communication Workers of America, and a 501 (c)(5) organization. Due to the nature of their jurisdiction this fund will only be available to developers in North America (the U.S. and Canada). They also have a FAQ about who's eligible and how.

Thanks to all the participants in the bundle who donated their games, and to you for donating! Please donate above the limit if you are able, and let's help as many people as possible!

Includes the following items:

Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure<br>Furniture & Mattress

FutureGrind<br>Milkbag Games

A Short Hike<br>adamgryu

Little Medusa<br>Mega Cat Studios

Dead Finger Dice: A Billionaire Killing Game<br>Rocket Adrift Games

holedown<br>grapefrukt

Cool Kid Cody: Season 1<br>90% Studios

SkateBIRD<br>glassbottommeg

A Dream About Parking Lots<br>Interactive Dreams

Nekomancer of Nowhere<br>Standing Cat

Fun Zone Omega<br>Willy Elektrix

Atomic Owl<br>Monster Theater

Drywall Eating Simulator<br>Peripheral Playbox

NEUROCRACY<br>Younès Rabii

Crypt Crawler<br>Wild Domain Games

The Wratch's Den 👹<br>PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Dyebreaker<br>running jump

Centauri Dark<br>Devon Wiersma

dirtbag MAHJONG<br>paranoodle

Dungeon Bodega Simulator<br>Alien Fruit Games

Breaking out of the algorithm: To live without a boss<br>fadiyah alaidrus

Winter Witch<br>solarVagrant

Psychroma<br>Rocket Adrift Games

Repurpose<br>Eros

Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest<br>Hellfire Railway Interactive (MadBaek)

Magic of Inventorying<br>Kalum from The Rolistes

Lucah: Born of a Dream<br>melessthanthree

Purrfect Apawcalypse: Love at Furst Bite<br>90% Studios

Eldritch<br>Minor Key Games

Beyond the Chiron Gate<br>Space Goblin Games

Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno<br>90% Studios

SERPENT AT THE VERNISSAGE<br>daniel bock

Purrfect Apawcalypse: Purrgatory Furever<br>90% Studios

I Get This Call Every Day<br>Goose

Wheels of Aurelia<br>Santa Ragione

Antecrypt⚡<br>PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Vignettes<br>Skeleton Business

A Simple Twist of Fae: a Spicy Shoujo Otome<br>TuffMallow

They Bleed Pixels<br>Spooky Squid Games

Exhauster<br>Pink Honeycomb

Elephantasy: Flipside<br>Linker

Super Slime Arena<br>JellyTeam

Cook, Serve, Delicious!<br>chubigans

Rod, Reel, & Fist<br>kumada1

Leaf's Odyssey<br>themsalltook

EPONYMOUS<br>J. Kyle Pittman

NEON STRUCT<br>Minor Key Games

The Sirena Expedition<br>Giraffe Cat

La Mancha - print and play edition<br>Pie For Breakfast Studios

Gunhouse<br>Necrosoft Games

My Final Cursed Days<br>astoryinpieces

New Meat<br>Rocketlex

Hyper Gunsport<br>Necrosoft Games

Spellbearers<br>Whim Independent Studios

Spindlewheel<br>Sasha Reneau

Deep Space Exploitation<br>JuhrJuhr

Flowerdrops<br>Natali Katz

HORIZON VANGUARD<br>tain

Directory Dungeon - a File Explorer Dungeon Crawler<br>JuhrJuhr

Cycene<br>izzy kestrel

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