This weekend, there’s going to be an event called “8-Bit Salute,” and we at the Lab are the proud sponsor of a team. (If you watched our live Twitch a couple weeks ago, you may have noticed the logo for this event as an easter egg in Lifeline.) The purpose of the Salute is to raise funds for Operation Supply Drop, a charity that gets games into the hands of those serving in the armed forces, either deployed or recovering from injuries in military hospitals. If you’re so inclined, I would be grateful if you joined our team.
Here is the link to the Undead team page: http://www.operationsupplydrop.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.team&teamID=5106
There are two ways to participate. One is to simply join our team and make a donation of any size. (If fifty players each donated two dollars, it would be 20% of our goal. It really is the thought that counts. Together, we can move mountains.)
The other is to join the team, and livestream State of Decay during the gameathon from your own Twitch channel. Send me the channel link ASAP, and I’ll promote your channels on our 8-Bit team page, as well as on Twitter and our forum. You ask your viewers to donate directly to you – your total contribution will count towards our total as long as you yourself are part of the Undead Labs team. (Edit to add: You can also join our team, and ask your friends and family to sponsor you during the gameathon – no livestream needed!)
Anyone contributing a hundred dollars or more to the team total will automatically get a Lifeline morale patch and two Lifeline codes (Steam or Xbox 360, your choice) on the day we launch. Yes, we’re still on track for early June, which is right around the corner! Either of those two codes could be given away during your live stream, as long as you warned your viewers that the prize would only happen if you hit the hundred dollar mark….
The person who contributes the most will get a special prize: A press copy of Lifeline. This Steam code will work before the game goes on sale, and you’ll get it the same day as our media friends get theirs. We’ll also throw in a State of Decay hat and that snazzy morale patch that was such a hit at PAX East.
Every single person who joins our team will be entered into a drawing to win a copy of Lifeline.
All the winners will be notified next week, but of course, the real winners are the men and women who will get cool games in their care packages thanks to this event!
Our friends on the official forum (and a few people who saw us at PAX) have already gotten us 31% of the way to our modest goal. I secretly hope we’re going to blow that goal away. Thanks for reading this post, and if you are able to participate, thank you for supporting our gamers in uniform.
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