On June 16th, Itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Inequality concluded, raising a grand total of $8,174,985 to be split evenly between the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Community Bail Fund.
Buying the bundle required only a donation of $5, meaning that a maximum of 1,634,997 different people could theoretically own the bundle (though that number is almost surely smaller, given that many people donated more than $5, it's still a close approximation, assuming the majority of owners bought in at the minimum.) The bundle is comprised of 1741 games and other types of media in total, including games that were added after the bundle's start date. For the 1,000,000+ owners of the bundle having trouble delving into an impossibly deep library of games, a new tool called Random Bundle Game was created to help with just that.
The core feature of the Random Bundle Game tool is its "Yes! Help Me Pick" button that takes up the majority of its home page's real estate. Clicking on this button navigates users to one of the projects included in the bundle picked entirely at random.
Information for each game includes a screenshot, in order to showcase what the game looks like, in addition to its release date, a tagline, the name of its developer, a score compiled from Itch.io user ratings and possibly more depending on the title. If the randomly-selected game seems uninteresting based on these parameters, a "Pick Something Else!" button at the bottom of the screen quickly navigates to a new random game.
Users looking to comb through all the releases in the bundle can also make use of a search function included on the website that uses specific filters to sort through the bundle. These filters include genre tags, accessibility options, minimum user scores and a category for games made by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) developers.
In order to make full use of the tool, users can paste the unique link for their copy of the bundle into an on-screen prompt after clicking "Setup" at the top of the page. This will add functionality to the site that directs users to their own download links for each game directly from the Random Bundle Game site.
Itch has promised to improve the accessibility of the bundle page on its own website sometime in the future. In the meantime, this tool provides the easiest method for navigating its impossibly deep catalog of releases.
Source: Ken Moodie on Twitter