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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. Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? by Bombcar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Dwarf Fortress guy made $16k last month. And his game is donation-only. And the donations aren't required.

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  2. Re:Noble, but sad by grnbrg · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except that the totals currently show otherwise...

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

  3. Licensing Disconnect by kainewynd2 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    From the website:

    We don't use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely.

    Now, from the EULA:

    1.1 License Grant. 2D BOY hereby grants to you a non-exclusive license to use a single copy of the object code version of the Game for your personal, non-commercial home entertainment use on one personal computer or other compatible electronic device. You may sell or transfer your copy of the Game to another person along with, and subject to, your rights under this EULA, only if you do not retain any copies.

    Emphasis is mine. It looks like Marketing might want to talk to Legal here...

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  4. Re:Support these guys! by RogueSeven · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Agreed. It's offers like this where we Linux users can show we're a growing market, and we deserve games, too. I bought WoG during its previous name-your-price sale. It was good enough that I took the Humble Bundle plunge based on its inclusion, despite me knowing nothing about the other games offered here. I just figure they have to be good if they're next to WoG. The charity options really sweetened the deal. What's not to love here?

  5. Nice, I submitted this hours before by h4rr4r · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Good Jerb Slashdot editors

  6. Re:Missing option: by harrkev · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, if you DID give $20, then the developers would have $20 more than if you did NOT buy. I think that this is kind of the point of this.

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  7. Re:Missing option: by grumbel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You could always just pay and not download all the games, as each game is a separate download.