Indie Pay-What-You-Want Bundle Reaches $1 Million 238
Spinnacre writes "The week-long Humble Indie Bundle, a pay-what-you-feel-adequate promotion, reached a million dollars in total contributions with just 50 minutes of sale time remaining. For a minimum price of a penny, gamers could get DRM-free downloads for World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Lugaru, Penumbra: Overture, and Samorost 2. The bundle gained great success immediately after being featured on sites such as Ars Technica and Slashdot for followup blog posts about game piracy and multi-platform gaming." According to this tweet from Steve Swink, the milestone means that several games will release their source code. In fact Wolfire is in the process of creating a public source code repository for Lugaru; Aquaria, Gish, and Penumbra: Overture are also due to be opened up within the next week.
Re:Penumbra (Score:3, Funny)
Penumbra is pants-wetting scary.
I don't understand.
I've seen little kids pee their pants pretty often, and never once have I been scared.
He he - top donations (Score:1, Funny)
The second place top donation gave $1337.00
He he.
Re:Penumbra (Score:3, Funny)
I've seen little kids pee their pants pretty often, and never once have I been scared.
I guess they weren't in your car, then.
I need another game on this laptop... hmm, lugaru's small. This really was a stroke of genius, I don't know if I've ever even heard of this game, now I've bought it, for however trivial an amount.
Re:Indie Gaming (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No mention that 25% pirated it and didn't pay 1 (Score:2, Funny)
Why should I respect the developers? Even if I respect them, why should I pay them money for the expression of their thoughts? If they don't want me to hear, they should keep silent.
Re:Good (Score:3, Funny)
I actually got her a bundle as well.
What are you doing buying Tom's girlfriend video games? Does he know about this?
Re:No mention that 25% pirated it and didn't pay 1 (Score:3, Funny)
Really? These days it seems more home to astroturfing IP-loving douchebags like yourself.