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Indie Pay-What-You-Want Bundle Reaches $1 Million

Posted by kdawson on from the doing-well-by-doing-good dept.

Spinnacre writes "The week-long Humble Indie Bundle, a pay-what-you-feel-adequate promotion, reached a million dollars in total contributions with just 50 minutes of sale time remaining. For a minimum price of a penny, gamers could get DRM-free downloads for World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Lugaru, Penumbra: Overture, and Samorost 2. The bundle gained great success immediately after being featured on sites such as Ars Technica and Slashdot for followup blog posts about game piracy and multi-platform gaming." According to this tweet from Steve Swink, the milestone means that several games will release their source code. In fact Wolfire is in the process of creating a public source code repository for Lugaru; Aquaria, Gish, and Penumbra: Overture are also due to be opened up within the next week.

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  1. Re:Penumbra by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2, Funny

    Penumbra is pants-wetting scary.

    I don't understand.

    I've seen little kids pee their pants pretty often, and never once have I been scared.

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  2. He he - top donations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The second place top donation gave $1337.00

    He he.

  3. Re:Penumbra by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've seen little kids pee their pants pretty often, and never once have I been scared.

    I guess they weren't in your car, then.

    I need another game on this laptop... hmm, lugaru's small. This really was a stroke of genius, I don't know if I've ever even heard of this game, now I've bought it, for however trivial an amount.

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  4. Re:Indie Gaming by jthill · · Score: 2, Funny

    Aww, crap. Just saw the price breakdown. Maybe I should do just a little more than the teensiest bit of research.

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  5. Re:No mention that 25% pirated it and didn't pay 1 by FuckingNickName · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why should I respect the developers? Even if I respect them, why should I pay them money for the expression of their thoughts? If they don't want me to hear, they should keep silent.

  6. Re:Good by Jake+Griffin · · Score: 3, Funny

    I actually got her a bundle as well.

    What are you doing buying Tom's girlfriend video games? Does he know about this?

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  7. Re:No mention that 25% pirated it and didn't pay 1 by idlemachine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Really? These days it seems more home to astroturfing IP-loving douchebags like yourself.