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)."
Support these guys! (Score:5, Informative)
Short review of Aquaria (Score:5, Informative)
Re:PayPal/Amazon/Google CO (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? (Score:5, Informative)
If only they get that kind of money month after month...
2010
April Donations: $16,104.49
March Donations: $4,387.99
February Donations: $1,452.57
January Donations: $2,291.50
2009
December Donations: $4,762.98
November Donations: $5,122.29
October Donations: $1,759.27
September Donations: $2,138.21
August Donations: $2,510.86
July Donations: $2,202.37
June Donations: $2,723.83
May Donations: $2,221.92
April Donations: $2,549.15
March Donations: $2,997.46
February Donations: $1,428.62
January Donations: $2,099.48
2008
December Donations: $5,279.49
November Donations: $1,305.10
October Donations: $1,868.30
September Donations: $1,695.48
source [bay12forums.com]
Re:So much for consistency.. (Score:3, Informative)
Also, Gish is x86-64, the rest x86-32 (except World of Goo, which works with either).
Re:Wish they would do more of this for consoles (Score:3, Informative)
If your PC was built during the last 7 years, it shouldn't any trouble running Gish or World of Goo, or even Penumbra for that matter.
Re:Licensing Disconnect (Score:3, Informative)
IANAL, but I feel that you can install it on as many machin as you want provided you only use a single one at a time.
Re:Short review of Aquaria (Score:3, Informative)
Similarly, a review of Penumbra.
Penumbra is a series with two titles and one expansion back, it's a survival-horror adventure, and takes a lot of cues from the Cthulu mythos and HP Lovecraft's writing (though has a rather unique story). Overture is fantastic - you need to get used to it though, so give it at least 30 minutes or an hour before just saying "pft!" There is very little focus on combat, and a lot more focus on stealth, avoidance, and problem solving. The story is brilliantly written and atmospheric. The only real problem they have is this first chapter (Overture) does permit very rudimentary combat, but the enemies don't have a good AI for combat, so you end up with the enemies you actually can kill (spoiler: some hell-hound type dogs) not being that scary once you figure out the trick to killing them. Outside of that though, it's really one of the only games that has ever been _haunting_ to me. Highly recommend it.
Re:Short review of Aquaria (Score:3, Informative)
Alec Holowka of Bit Blot went on to form Infinite Ammo [infiniteammo.ca]. He is very talented.
Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? (Score:3, Informative)
That's a somewhat different kind of selfishness, though. Rand, being somewhat Nietzschean in orientation (especially early on), isn't a pure hedonist (do what makes you feel good), but feels that some kinds of instincts and desires are "better" than other kinds, and (like Nietzsche) classifies some of the things traditionally thought of as "altruism" as bad ones.
Re:PayPal/Amazon/Google CO (Score:3, Informative)
Re:So much for consistency.. (Score:2, Informative)
Excellent customer service.
Pay $100 or more (Score:3, Informative)
If you pay $100 or more (split any way you like), you get a complimentary EFF Pioneer Level Membership.
Source [wolfire.com].