Please Support the Smile! Charity Album

Now that we're between Bundles I can take the time to highlight other charitable and gaming related stuff, in and out of the ponyverse. I am extremely happy to start with the Smile! Charity Album, working to raise money to help the Children's Cancer Association. I asked them for a copy-paste to share with you all, so please read and spread your generosity to them!

Here is what they have to share:

 

Smile! a Charity Album fundraiser a collaborative project involving the Website Mylittleremix.com, a brony solidarity group otherwise known as Bronies for Good, and a various assortment of MLP:FiM artists, writers, and creative minds. The objective of this collaboration is to raise money for the Children's Cancer Association via the sale of the album to donors. 

(the CCA is an award-winning, reputable charity that lends support to the children of families who suffer from the devastating and degenerative disease of cancer.)

To this effect, the collaboration has crafted a high-quality, diverse album that features 23 different musical tracks of various genres from a number of highly skilled, passionate artists in the brony community, totaling to over 70 minutes of music for the listening. 

In addition to this album, wonderfully creative minds in the community have offered to provide additional prizes to those Bronies who show an display an extra dose of generosity when donating to the CCA. For a full list of additional prizes, album details, and how to donate, hit up the Bronies For Good website here:

http://broniesforgood.org/

So far, the month-long fundraiser has been able to generate over $11,000 for the CCA, which goes to show the wondrous capability of the community, and hopefully, it continues to amplify as the month goes on!

Brohooves to you all, and let's keep working to make Smile! a shining example of the love and altruism that this community breeds on a daily basis!

Cheers Everypony!

-For any questions regarding the event, feel free to email smile.bfg@gmail.com or contact the organizers at Broniesforgood@gmail.com for specific questions.

Humble Indie Bundle #4: the Biggest Bundle Ever!

The gates have closed on Humble Indie Bundle #4, and thanks to all your generosity and Notch's friendly competition the two highest contributions in the history of the Humble Bundle have been placed on the biggest Bundle ever! A total of $2,372,044.68 was raised in the name of charity and independent game developers; THIS is why the Humble Brony Bundle exists!

I wanted to share a few relevant statistics about you, the Humble Brony Bundle donators:

• There have been over 1,000 distinct donators so far. This isn't just a handful of rich bronies making a ruckus; over ONE THOUSAND of you have taken part. Considering the "average brony" is an 18-22 year old starving student that says a lot to me.

• Many of you missed it, but our initial payment on the Humble Indie Bundle #4 raised the average donation size by over a dollar immediately! It settled down a bit afterwards, but our large pooled contribution still helped to keep the average higher than it would have been, increasing the overall revenue of the Humble Indie Bundle #4.
  
  

• $17,375 raised over the course of 35 days is an average of $500 per day!

• The HBB + Notch together makes up over 1% of the total donations on Humble Indie Bundle #4. 1% might not seem like much... but it's 1% of almost 2.4 million dollars. With a figure that large, and 435,000 Bundles sold, a whole percent point is a lot!

This Bundle may have ended, but the Humble Brony Bundle will continue on! It has to; there's already over $150 waiting for the next Humble Indie Bundle!

See, that's the thing: even after we had already "won" against Notch's generosity your contributions continued to come in, and now that this Bundle has closed you are continuing to donate without even knowing when the next Bundle will be announced. You guys continue to amaze me. :D

Notch to Watch My Little Pony

Notch made a little deal that if bronies out-generous him he'll watch several episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Wellllll...

Notch's reply came through a few minutes later:

It seems that not only have your generous donations lead to us being the first contribution to ever exceed $9000 on a Humble Indie Bundle, but you have also forced poor Notch into watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic! Will he ever be the same?! Thinking back about how much I loved my first two nights absorbing every episode that had been aired... I'm almost kinda jealous. :D

I'll have a real Bundle Wrap Up later today. For now, keep on donating!! You guys are making me so proud!

Notch Overtakes HBB for Top Contributor

Notch, dastardly creator of Minecraft, has swooped in with a diabolically generous donation of $8542 to the Humble Indie Bundle #4, overtaking the Humble Brony Bundle as not just the top contributor on this bundle, but the holder of the record for top contribution of all time!

Except, you know what? In the few hours since he made his donation bronies have donated over $800 to the cause, pushing us from $7000 to $7850, over halfway to overtaking Notch's tremendous contribution!

EDIT:  We're now up to $8050 for Humble Indie Bundle #4, less than $500 away from out-generous-ing Notch!!

Now is the time to really spread the word, to reach out to every brony you know who likes to give to charity, who likes gaming, or just likes to do something good. This is the best kind of competition: friendly competition where every dollar spent and every ounce of effort goes to people who deserve it! I don't know about you, but that makes me feel really, really competitive.

We CAN do this! We WILL do this! But not without your help! And with our total across both Bundles now in excess of $9000 the lofty goal of $10,000 total raised is within our grasp... In the immortal words of Rarity Unicorn... It. Is. ON.

Humble Indie Bundle #4 Reaches $2,000,000!

The Humble Indie Bundle #4 has just become the second Bundle to reach $2,000,000 and is on track to be the biggest ever! Congratulations go out to the Humble Bundle, Inc. staff and volunteers, as well as the developers of the excellent games being offered!


Meanwhile, we've broken over $8000 raised in the Humble Brony Bundle since starting in November, and are just a little short of being able to raise our contribution to $7000 on the Humble Indie Bundle #4! Congratulations go out to... you guys. <3

Let me take this moment to wish all of you a wonderful weekend, be it Christmas-flavored or not! I hope you all get what you're wishing for!

HBB Named the Largest Contributor Ever!

The Humble Indie Bundle's official Twitter account, @humble, announced earlier today that our $6500 contribution now makes us the largest contributor in the history of Humble Bundles!!

... I'm kind of speechless, really. By now I think you all know how I feel about you and your generosity, so I'll resist the urge to drone on and on about it. I will repeat one thing though: I love you guys!

In other news, earlier today the Humble Bundle added five of the games from Humble Indie Bundle #3 to Bundle #4, free for anyone who purchased before today or anyone who buys Bundle #4 above the average. Now would be a GREAT time to buy some above-the-average gift keys for the gamers in your life. Between all 12 of those games AND all those soundtracks there's literally something for everypony!

And on a personal gamer note, I picked up Sequence yesterday and played it for hours straight. It's a Rhythm RPG; here's some gameplay on Hard mode (which I'm nowhere near attempting yet). I hope it ends up in a Humble Bundle someday, because it deserves loads of attention!

Now at $6500 and Still Rising!

Seriously guys, I thought things were going to slow down. I thought to myself, "Hay, after a few days most of the donating will taper off and I'll only update maybe twice in the last week."

Pffft. Yeah right.

Instead we're up to $6500 on the Humble Indie Bundle #4 and our total amount raised is inching in close to $8000! I'm so proud of you guys!