Humble Indie Bundle
May 4th, 2010 by CrusaderThanks to the many, many readers who notified us (seriously, this may be the most e-mailed/submitted item in the site’s history) about this incredibly awesome venture from the developers of World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD and Penumbra Overture: The Humble Indie Bundle.
Pay what you want. If you bought these five games separately, it would cost around $80 but we’re letting you set the price!
All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux. We didn’t want to leave anyone out.
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Your contribution supports the amazing Child’s Play charity and Electronic Frontier Foundation. By default, the amount is split equally between the seven participants (including Child’s Play and EFF), but you can tweak the split any way you’d like.
Get amazing games, support independent game development, support amazing independent game development FOR LINUX, contribute to deserving charities… seriously, there’s no downside here people! I already have most of these games but I don’t mind re-buying them under these circumstances.
The sale only lasts another six days, so don’t wait around if you intend to participate!
Edit: I just realized that this is the first opportunity we’ve had to purchase Aquaria on Linux at all, so there’s at least one game that none of you should have!
May 5th, 2010 at 6:03 am
I already have World of Goo and Penumbra, but what the hell… Even if I end up not liking the others, it’s definitely worth a shot…
I just hope they don’t get a lot of idiots all giving them just a penny, like 2D Boy did when they did their stand-alone WoG name-your-own-price sale…
May 6th, 2010 at 5:33 am
Hmm, already have most of them, but maybe Aquaria really is worth it. I’ll have a look.
@Agrajag: I’m quite sure you will (at least) like Gish ;^>
May 6th, 2010 at 11:00 am
I spent 25 bucks. It was a good deal. I already had world of goo, and gish.
May 8th, 2010 at 6:03 am
I like the fact, that all the pay what you want things I’ve seen, linux users give the most
From the site (averages):
Win $7.04 Mac $9.76 Linux $13.81
May 8th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Unfortunately, it won’t run for me:
*sigh* The drawbacks of trying to game on a server/workstation system (CentOS 5.4), I suppose…
May 9th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
Great News
Amanita Design add his game ‘Samorost 2′ to the Humble Indie Bundle!.
May 10th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
If they reach $1 million USD, then Lugaru, Penumbra, and Gish become open source games!
http://forums.wolfire.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6313
Talking to John myself, he verified it for me:
Sir Gallantmon (ニール・ゴンパ) says (3:29 PM):
*so, if you guys reach $1mil before the deal ends, will you guys really release the source code as it said in the video?
*for Lugaru HD, Gish, and Penumbra?
contact@wolfire.com (E-mail address not verified) says (3:29 PM):
*yes
May 10th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Awesome, maybe I’ll be able to compile my own version of Gish that’ll work on my system, then! ;-)
May 11th, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Woot! They made it to $1,000,000 and are following through with the open source!