Two weeks of special livestreams will support 14 brilliant charitable projects. Supporters will receive a huge collection of games worth over £650 ($875) as a thank you.
Jingle Jam, the world’s biggest games charity event, is now live. The much-loved event kicks off two weeks of epic and emotional fundraising streams and sees the return of the annual Jingle Jam Games collection – a special collection of 56 games offered by a huge range of developers and publishers which are offered as a reward for a charitable donation.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary with over $20m raised for charity prior to this year’s event, Jingle Jam has built up a huge following with warm and wholesome broadcasting over the festive season. Popular events have become yearly traditions for many – such as watching terrible Christmas cat videos, crashing trains, feeding cows and failing to cook Christmas dinner.
The event is broadcast on twitch.tv/yogscast and hosted by members of the Yogscast and their friends and features some of the most popular creators on Twitch and YouTube including Lewis and Simon, Sips, The Spiffing Brit, RTGame and many more. For the first time this year, any creator keen to join in with the Jingle Jam can set up their own fundraising streams, with their audiences also able to receive the games collection in return for donating to charity.
This year’s Jingle Jam Games Collection is the biggest yet: with 56 games worth over £650 ($875), and is available to anyone who donates over £35 ($47) here. Spanning all genres from co-op smash-hits Unrailed and Embr to critically-acclaimed storytelling adventures Heaven’s Vault and Tales of the Neon Sea. There’s award-winning picross Murder by Numbers, arctic survival in Project Winter and decently-priced graphics cards in PC Building Simulator.
There are many more – the full list is here – and Jingle Jam fans will be especially pleased to hear that viking strategy masterpiece Northgard is included this year.
Jingle Jam 2021 runs until the 14th of December on fundraising platform Tiltify with the Jingle Jam Games Collection limited to 100,000 copies. Delivered via e-mail as individual keys to be redeemed on Steam – the games can be given away or shared over the holiday season, but must be activated before the start of 2022.
“Developers and publishers have been incredibly generous this year – the value of the games collection is immense,” said Lewis Brindley, co-founder of The Yogscast. “Wildermyth and Just Die Already, two of my favourite games released this year, are worth it on their own but there’s another 54 great games. I’m delighted to have such a cool reward for those kind enough to donate to charity!”
“Jingle Jam really does show the games industry at its very best, and we’re once again thrilled to be a partner,” adds Rich Keith, CEO, Fourth Floor. “It’s wonderful seeing so many content creators and companies come together for such fantastic causes, and we hope we’ll raise a record amount. Plus the streams are always tremendous fun – all of us here at Fourth Floor will be tuning in for the two weeks.”
“Our team at Chucklefish and the developers at Robotality are so pleased to be supporting this year’s Jingle Jam Games Collection with our title Pathway. These are 14 fantastic charity projects and we can’t wait to see how much is raised this year,” said Katy Ellis, Head of Marketing at Jingle Jam supporter Chucklefish.
“Every year, the Jingle Jam demonstrates how content creators and their communities can have a powerful impact on causes they’re passionate about,” said Michael Wasserman, CEO of Tiltify. “Once again, Tiltify is proud to be the fundraising platform for the event. None of this would be possible without the humbling generosity of the gaming industry, and the amazing job Yogscast has done to create a truly epic Jingle Jam games collection.”
“Each December The Jingle Jam unites the Twitch community around the gaming content they love most while providing an opportunity to give back – this year to an amazing 14 charities,” said Anthony Pakronsis, Director of Partnerships for Northern Europe at Twitch. “That is why we are delighted to support this event once again and we know 2021 will be the best year yet!”
“We’re delighted to be a partner of the Jingle Jam and work with its charities each year,” said Grahame Gallacher, Director at Jingle Jam partner Honest PR. “There’s such a wide range of charitable causes for people to support, from social justice issues to mental health and disability access. It blows me away the positive impact these charities have on so many lives.”
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