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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.

2 of 238 comments (clear)

  1. Finally by CasualFriday · · Score: 1, Troll

    Maybe this will give a wake-up call to the more money-hungry developers out there. I'm looking at you, EA.

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    Raters gon' rate.
  2. Not at all by /dev/trash · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows can be pirated ya know. And the people paying 1 cent for a game are pirates.