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The Humble Indie Bundle

Posted by kdawson on from the now-how-much-would-you-pay dept.

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)."

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  1. Cross-platform by by+(1706743) · · Score: 2, Funny
    From TFA:

    All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux. We didn't want to leave anyone out.

    No *BSD, but still kinda neat!

  2. Re:WoG... by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obligatory

  3. So much for consistency.. by VMaN · · Score: 4, Funny

    World of Goo: .deb
    Aquaria: .run
    Gish .tar.gz
    Lugaru HD: .bin
    Penumbra .sh

    Now that's just silly :D

    1. Re:So much for consistency.. by godrik · · Score: 5, Funny

      NO ! This! Is ! Linux !
      *kick*

    2. Re:So much for consistency.. by KDR_11k · · Score: 5, Funny

      To be fair there's no way Gish could come in anything but a tarball.

      --
      Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
  4. Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? by Surt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe. Does the free release of my work gain me notoriety that helps me to make future sales? We're not all short term minimalist thinkers.

    And besides, both food and housing are guaranteed to all US citizens.*

    * Some restrictions may apply, see county jail for details.

    --
    "Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
  5. Re:BSD is *fully* supported: Mac OS X by by+(1706743) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mac OS X *is* BSD, and it is the best designed, most secure, most reliable, most usable BSD ever made. Why would you use anything else?

    I use shell expansion of the * character -- so *BSD expands to NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc. It doesn't expand to Mac OS X.

  6. Re:Noble, but sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except that the totals currently show otherwise...

    - Total raised $55,481
    - Average contribution $7.74
    - Number of contributions 7169

    I only donate in geeky amounts. Here are some recommendations

    $1.87 (on a motherfucking cop) - rap geek
    $11.11 - binary geek
    $10.66 - european history geek
    $14.92 - american history geek
    $13.37 - computer geek
    $31.41 - math geek

  7. Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? by kalirion · · Score: 3, Funny

    But not for long.

  8. Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? by ooshna · · Score: 2, Funny

    -1 Troll. No /.er ever uses a car analogy that fits perfectly with their point. Nice try.

  9. Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? by interkin3tic · · Score: 2, Funny

    there are plenty of consumers who need only the carrot (the prospect that their payment will be rewarded by production of future works) to pay fairly. Unfortunately most established industries are managed by people who like you who continue to deny what's actually happening with the belief that their philosophy will prove true in the end, and therefore always fall back to the stick method of threatening, DRM-encumbering, and generally treating their (potential) customers like criminals.

    To their credit, I, a potential customer, am a criminal (though less in terms of pirating and more in terms of public urination) and I hate carrots.

  10. Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? by PylonHead · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

    'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.'
    'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.'
    'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.'

    I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...

    Rapture.

    --
    # (/.);;
    - : float -> float -> float =
  11. Re:BSD is *fully* supported: Mac OS X by RichiH · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mod me -1 nitpick, but you mean globbing, not "shell expansion".