Well the event is now underway, Mojang has sat down and took on the challenge of creating a brand new game in only sixty short hours. The game itself is the result of earlier polls posted by Mojang and the Humble Bundle group (whom they are making the new game for) which asked visitors to pick a theme and a game play style. The winner was a real-time strategy shoot-em-up ancient Egyptian steampunk game.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Humble Bundle, they are a group that release various gaming bundles with the price of a single donation. Previous games included in the bundle have been WORLD OF GOO, TRINE, and the critically acclaimed BRAID. The consumer chooses how much of their respective donation goes to each charity or which developers, giving each supporter the ability to back a cause that they believe in. This team up between Mojang and Humble Bundle could prove to be the biggest the site has ever seen, with one hundred percent of the proceeds going to charity. The charities this time around include long time Humble Bundle partner Child’s Play, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The American Red Cross, and charity: water. All of these charities support great causes and deserve everything that they are getting from this experience.

The current live stream is being hosted over on www.humblebundle.com, for all to enjoy the current work in progress. So far with roughly about forty hours left to go, the group has raised just under one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. If you wish to donate yourself and get the brand new game, along with two others created by Wolfire Studios, and Oxeye Studios respectivly when they are released, the website has all the information you need. I myself have already picked up the pack and encourage everyone else out their to do so themselves, no donation is too small.