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Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by thekevinjones on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @01:18PM (#5252161)
This is badass. Best of luck to everyone.
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by devindotcom on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @03:10PM (#5252969)
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!

Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by ChrisClark on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @04:09PM (#5253383)
Even better, it all goes to charity. I guess that could be bad if you wanted to support the devs, at least with money. :)
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by rednukleus on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @04:18PM (#5253444)
It's interesting that they are all programming in Windows, and all using IDEs.
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by coderdude on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @04:57PM (#5253646)
The vast majority of games are made in Windows using an IDE. It's completely unremarkable.
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by rednukleus on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:05PM (#5253685)
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.

Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by dguaraglia on Thursday February 21, 2013 @12:40AM (#5255658)
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.
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by inafield on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:32PM (#5253846)
In order to be more constructive, what would you have thought they would use? Notepad? nano? edit? TextPad?
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by rednukleus on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @06:11PM (#5254024)
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.

Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by mminer on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @06:35PM (#5254155)
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.

Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by justinsb on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:29PM (#5253834)
Will the "making of" videos be available to purchasers? That would be an incredible resource for anyone wanting to learn to make games...
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by mwilcox on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:41PM (#5253893)
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by justinsb on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @06:05PM (#5253994)
Thanks!
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by metastew on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @02:13PM (#5252540)
I watched parts of the first Mojam, it was educational!

No Notch coding this time though?

Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by skeletonjelly on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:26PM (#5253813)
Definitely educational. Sad I missed the start though. I'm hoping somebody caps it for watching later.
Re:The Humble Bundle Mojam 2 [video] by jimminy on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @05:45PM (#5253910)
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.