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Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out
- angrycoder 16y agoThis is a great way to donate to the EFF and get some games in the process.
- amelim 16y agoDon't forget about Child's Play either. It's a wonderful charity which raises money to donate video games, books, and toys for sick kids in Children's hospitals. http://www.childsplaycharity.org/ http://www.childsplaycharity.org/
- djcapelis 16y agoBraid ported to Linux? Sold.
- fletchowns 16y agoI can't recommend this game enough, it really is one of the best I have ever played!
- listic 16y agoI'm afraid no. I don't see any informarion to the effect that Braid runs on Linux.
- teach 16y agoExcept the part where they write "All of the games [in the bundle] work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux." If Braid isn't available for Linux, that'd be a deal-breaker for me and probably for a lot of the Linux users buying this bundle.
- djcapelis 16y agoThe author made sure Braid worked on Linux for the bundle. I was very pleased to hear about that. (And yes, having bought the bundle I can verify the download exists.)
- gwern 16y agoNot that anyone really cares or needs my input, but I can verify that too.
- teach 16y agoEither of you install it yet?
- pmcginn 16y agoEdited: Bought the package and attempted to install the games. Of the five, on Ubuntu 10.10 x64: Braid: Installer was a .bin which gave me some ELFCLASS64 errors, but the game runs. I just can't figure out how to get it windowed, so it's currently centered between my two monitors. Cortex: Installer was a 64bit bin, installed OK, but the game gives me an error about a missing file when I run it. Tried to touch the file, no luck. Machinarium: .tar.gz, installs and runs. Forces primary-monitor only. Osmos: 64-bit deb, installed fine, plays awesome, forces itself to my left (primary) monitor, couldn't be happier. Revenge of the Titans: Broken 64-bit deb. The Ubuntu GUI for debs threw up a useless error message. If you manually create /opt/revengeofthetitans/full_length_music/ and then install it with dpkg it works. Game runs, and has three different window size options if you don't want fullscreen.
- krakensden 16y agoI just installed and ran it- it works beautifully.
- Almaviva 16y agoThat's cool if true, given Jonathan Blow's many posts about his frustrations in porting to Linux, particularly the fine grained control you need over sound for that game (play backwards, play at varying time rates). See the long thread here: http://braid-game.com/news/?p=364 http://braid-game.com/news/?p=364
- ekanes 16y agoThey break out contributions by OS, which is kinda neat to see. Admittedly an outlier could move the needle if they really want to throw some money down. ~4k individual purchases. Average contribution: Windows $5.48 Mac $7.09 Linux $11.45
- pclark 16y agoIs that because Linux is a much smaller % of purchase OS than the other two?
- tyree732 16y agoLikely because Linux users are a: More grateful when games are made for their platform and b: attempting to demonstrate they are better than Windows and Max users.
- tel 16y agoAnd because means are spectacularly unstable so just one or two feeling that way will show up.
- smallblacksun 16y agoLike the guy who gave $500
- tibix 16y agoIn the first Indie Bundle [http://www.wolfire.com/humble http://www.wolfire.com/humble], they didn't show these results until the last days, and the stats were similar. Linux Users weren't trying to show off, it was something that just happened.
- tel 16y agoMeans are still spectacularly unstable to small numbers of outliers. They're more stable with higher numbers of samples, but so is any given measure of centrality. So, a few Linux users donating $500 could sway an identical distribution to the Mac or Windows users.
- prestia 16y agoI was really impressed how well this pay-what-you-want scheme worked last year. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like a viable payment option for smaller developers who have yet to acquire the status of these indie darlings. As an aside: I always end up already owning the majority of games in these bundles, but I buy them anyway. Here's to hoping we can eventually register this one on Steam too.
- citricsquid 16y agoI always find it curious how people see this as some sort of viable method for anyone. It's quite clear that this idea only works in very few situations, yet lots of people will see this and claim it to be a viable idea for anyone. I hope nobody actually tries this for their own games and they're an unknown developer.
- ido 16y agoWhy not? If they are an unknown indie developer they're probably not raking in the millions anyway. Don't think they'd have much to lose from a 1 week pay-as-much-as-you-want deal.
- citricsquid 16y agoI didn't mean specifically this deal, horrible explanation on my part. I meant people who see success like this and then instantly try and apply the idea to themselves when it's very unlikely to work. For example a small indie developer will never make much off a deal like this. Like people who try to replicate the million dollar homepage, things like that. Apologies for the poor explanation.
- bugsy 16y agoWhy do people like Steam anyway? I went to try it out and it tried to install a bunch of spyware crap on my computer and get me to agree to a 50 page legal document full of terms only a madman would agree to.
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- twodayslate 16y agoSteam key for this one too? I love how they sent it out for the last one!
- ihodes 16y agoThat's a +$20 delta for me, at least.
- eru 16y agoHow does Steam earn this premium with you?
- harry 16y agospeaking for myself: 1. Shows my friends what I'm playing. This leads often to impromptu multiplayer in a diverse social group that never did so before. Fire up world of goo then get a couple of messages from friends who were 'away' a minute ago to ask "lets kill zombies." 2. keeps everything mostly up to date. Patches usually roll out in hours of their release and are automatically applied. 3. Steam Cloud. Settings, cd keys, savegames - all stored between my laptop and desktop without any effort. 4. Goddamn easy to buy.
- Splines 16y agoFor me, I don't need to worry about what happens if humblebundle.com goes away.
- ihodes 16y agoHarry pretty much answered this for me: also, the downsides of Steam (them being in control, the DRM, the possibility of losing the account without much chance recourse) are balanced by the plusses that Harry enumerated, as well as the smaller cognitive load I have to endure by having all my games in just one place (granted, I have a Battle.net account with a ton of games as well…). I really don't want to have to worry about more than one account, more than one set of receipts, more than one place to update and launch and sap my RAM: I just want to game, and not to worry. I think it's a similar reason that Apple's App Store is doing so well: I pay for convenience. I'd pay +$20 because of the above.
- bjonathan 16y agoLove that they share their numbers. Although, I would love to know what is the average split choosed by buyers between dev/charity/"tip" !!
- callahad 16y agoHah, there's a great little image that appears if you enter a value < $1.00: http://cdn.humblebundle.com/hib2/sad_developer.jpg http://cdn.humblebundle.com/hib2/sad_developer.jpg
- wildmXranat 16y agoNice. Judging by that tuque, he might be a Canadian. So it's gonna cost ya about $0.98.
- wippler 16y agoThis is great that they are doing it again. I have Braid on Steam but bought it for my Linux. Also awesome that they give away soundtrack for Machinarium and Revenge of Titans, mini album for Osmos.
- bugsy 16y agoThe soundtracks were a neat surprise and they are very good. Went right into iTunes and will stay there.
- aurynn 16y agoHopefully there'll be a steam key. Braid, Machinarium and Osmos I already have, but the bundle is worth it for Revenge of the Titans, that looks like so much fun
- empire29 16y agoEver since i got a Mac i've noticed i've been buying a number "small" apps ($5 - $40, including now this humble bundle. In my previous win-centric life I would avoid paying for software at all cost (as ironic as that is). This is in large part due to 1) getting lazier (not wanting to deal with finding alternative methods of procurement) 2) apps that cost less generally have most of the proceeds go to ppl actively involved in making the product 3) the sub $40 price range seems entirely reasonable for quality software 4) mac apps generally just look/feel so polished, and in small part 4) having more disposable income than in college/pre-college. Couple of my recent faves have been Cinch and TotalFinder -- I can't wait to get a chance to play around w my new humble games! Many thanks to the humble team and the devs!
- ja2ke 16y agoAll of those points have made the Mac shareware market a viable one for decades. Something about he Mac OS seems to be less supportive of the types of system tray and popup scanning OS dominating spyware/freeware that pollutes the Windows market, too, so it all ends up "feeling safer" than the usual download.com fodder, as well.
- blub 16y agoAnyone else getting PayPal no matter which checkout option they pick? I no longer use PayPal.
- jeff18 16y agoThis should be fixed now - (jeff from humble bundle)
- patio11 16y agoI just love how silky smooth their fulfillment is. If BCC downloadable were still under active development, I'd be stealing bits of it. (Hmm, personalized bookmarkable page with direct download links, keys, and settings... Hmm, waiting for Paypal hourglass. Hmm, "as long as we've got you here, please hit our sharing buttons" under the hourglass")
- nhangen 16y agoThis is really awesome...thanks for sharing. I already own Machinarium, but I had to get the rest of these...they've been on my list.
- wccrawford 16y agoYeah, I already have a couple of these, but I went for it anyhow. Partly because they provided a Steam key for the last ones, which I thought was really great.
- staticshock 16y agoWhat was in the original bundle?
- greendot 16y agoWoot! That Revenge of the Titans looks fun.
- trotsky 16y agoDo I basically need a gamepad to play braid? Or will it work with the keyboard decently? What about the other platformer and the asteroids style game? Playing under linux if that matters.
- CrazedGeek 16y agoIf you can play a platformer with a keyboard, Braid will play just fine. (Do gamepads in Braid work on Linux?)
- trotsky 16y agoThanks for everyone's responses. It seems like I was worrying for no reason - Braid turns out to be very easy to play with a keyboard - and as far as I can tell that's all it supports anyway.
- lambda 16y agoI played through Braid just fine with just a keyboard. Great game, by the way; I highly recommend it.
- Raphael 16y agoOsmos plays great with the mouse. You can zoom with the scroll wheel.
- agent86 16y agoAm I the only geek who approximated his transaction fee and added it to his bundle price? Between naming my own price and them donating to charity, I felt bad that someone might need to eat the fee to run my card. Since I assume "Humble Bundle Inc" is processing the transactions, I added it to the "Humble Tip" portion of my order.
- listic 16y agoThanks for the suggestion. How much do you think card processing costs?
- nfriedly 16y agoUsually around $0.25 + 2-5% depending on how good of a deal they negotiated with their payment processor. [update] Here's Amazon's fees for their SimplePay service: For Transactions >= $10: * 2.9% + $0.30 for all transactions Volume Discounts * 2.5% + $.30 for all transactions for monthly payment volume from $3k-$10k * 2.2% + $.30 for all transactions for monthly payment volume from $10k - $100k * 1.9% + $.30 for all transactions for monthly payment volume over $100k For Transactions < $10: * 5.0% + $0.05 for all transactions from https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=6022 https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=6022
- guynamedloren 16y agoNicely designed site, but did anybody notice that the background texture is exactly the same as the one that OhLife.com uses (clickable http://www.ohlife.com http://www.ohlife.com)? Is this a common bg texture, or is there some "borrowing" going on here?
- raquo 16y agoAll these game bundles are so confusing. I can't even keep track of how many times I've bought which games already :)
- sasmith 16y agoI like that the top purchasers are advertisements.
- martinkallstrom 16y agoTo increase the value of ending up on a Top 10 or Top 100, they should provide purchasers with more opportunity for exposure, including logotypes, presentations and links to websites.
- brown9-2 16y agoDoes anyone know which of the three payment providers (Paypal, Google Checkout, Amazon) end up charging the least, so as to maximize my amount that goes to the devs/charities/etc?
- StavrosK 16y agoI believe that Amazon's and Paypal's rates are exactly the same, but Amazon picks the cheapest rate automatically depending on if you pay more or less than $10 or so (it automatically considers it a micropayment and charges the appropriate rate), so I'd go with that. PayPal charges a standard rate that you pick (micropayment or not), and if the guys thought most payments would be under $10, they might have optimised for that, so your purchase would be more expensive with PayPal. TL;DR: Just pick Amazon.
- mambodog 16y agoI was happy to see that Notch knocked the advertisers off the top of the 'top contributor' list by paying $2000. Also, I'm impressed (though not surprised) to see the sale crack $500 in about a day.
- mcgraw 16y agoDay 2 and they've broke $600k... That is pretty awesome. I'm wondering where most of the money is going? Are people dropping the cash more for charity, because they understand that indie life is tough, or both?