The Humble Indie Bundle 290
supersloshy writes "Last year, 2D Boy, the developers of the popular independent game World of Goo, had a pay-what-you-want birthday sale with curious results. For the next seven days, Wolfire Games is attempting the same kind of sale, but with some new twists. Wolfire Games' Humble Indie Bundle contains five independent games (World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra) with no DRM and they are all cross-platform. In addition to directly supporting the developers of these five games, part of the money also goes to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Child's Play Charity. No matter how much you spend, you also get to choose who your money goes to (charity only, developers only, evenly, or custom)."
Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? (Score:5, Interesting)
The Dwarf Fortress guy made $16k last month. And his game is donation-only. And the donations aren't required.
Re:Noble, but sad (Score:4, Interesting)
Except that the totals currently show otherwise...
- Total raised $55,481
- Average contribution $7.74
- Number of contributions 7169
Licensing Disconnect (Score:4, Interesting)
We don't use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely.
Now, from the EULA:
1.1 License Grant. 2D BOY hereby grants to you a non-exclusive license to use a single copy of the object code version of the Game for your personal, non-commercial home entertainment use on one personal computer or other compatible electronic device. You may sell or transfer your copy of the Game to another person along with, and subject to, your rights under this EULA, only if you do not retain any copies.
Emphasis is mine. It looks like Marketing might want to talk to Legal here...
Re:Support these guys! (Score:2, Interesting)
Nice, I submitted this hours before (Score:2, Interesting)
Good Jerb Slashdot editors
Re:Missing option: (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, if you DID give $20, then the developers would have $20 more than if you did NOT buy. I think that this is kind of the point of this.
Re:Missing option: (Score:3, Interesting)
You could always just pay and not download all the games, as each game is a separate download.