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The Humble Indie Bundle 3 Released
JimWise writes "The fourth Humble Bundle has been released (the third to be released was the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle). Included in this bundle are: Crayon Physics Deluxe by Klooniegames; Cogs by Lazy 8 Studios; VVVVVV by Terry Cavanagh; Hammerfight by Kranx Productions; and And Yet It Moves by Broken Rules. Each of the games in the bundle is DRM free and available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, as well as available through Steam. As with the other Humble Bundles, you pay what you want and customize how much goes towards the developers, EFF, Child's Play, and the Humble Tip."
Note, the Humble Tip goes to Humble Bundle, Inc. itself, which pays for the bandwidth and development of this promotion. You determine how much we deserve to earn or lose from your purchase.
Anyone have an idea of how much this would amount to per person out of curiosity?
Aside from helping a very well-implemented charity organization (Child's play + Developers + EFF + HumbleBundleTeam sliders are a real nice touch), VVVVVV is a really nice game.
If nothing else, the music is priceless, really catchy stuff. That, and the constant abstractions of the pixel-art, mixed with the mixed humor of the name of each "screen" you appear in make it an instant classic.
Of course, the insane challenge of "Doing things the Hard Way" will also make it a memorable experience.
Highly recommended for that one alone.
Ryan Fenton
Average purchase: $4.43
Average Windows: $3.65
Average Mac: $5.59
Average Linux: $10.39
yay us!
These stats are funny as the "free" OS people are willing to pay more, or so it appears (Or are desperate for games) :)
Total payments: $303,911.06
Purchases #: 68,495
Average purchase: $4.44
Average Windows: $3.66
Average Mac: $5.61
Average Linux: $10.40
I immediately began the purchase, but I've been sitting at the "waiting for paypal" screen for a while now. Last bundle it only lasted a few seconds, but then again, I waited a couple days before I grabbed that one.
It's 2011!
You sure the humble bundle does not allow you to pay $0?
I know I have purchased games that did allow you to do that.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
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Well, if you feel something is not even worth $0.01, then you feel it is worthless to you, and if it is worthless to you, then you shouldn't care about not having it.
I've purchased bundle 1 and 2, but 2 said up front most of the games wouldn't work with on-board video cards. Off hand, I couldn't find anything about this on this bundle. Anyone know if these games will work on intel on-board video cards?
I bought 2 anyway, just to support them. But it would be nice if they worked on all my machines.
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I've made two payments(2@$1 ea) but I haven't received a download link yet, just paypal confirmation/receipt. Has anyone else had trouble?
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Linux has no games? Nice try, Troll. Obviously, you've never looked in the repositories - there is a nice little list of games in mine. Just as obviously, you've never explored the possibilities of Wine. Literally thousands of Windows games will load via Wine. Then there are the commercial tools like Cedega. They load most of the "latest and greatest" games commercially available. Not to mention that any online games that rely on Java or Flash runs great on Linux. Oh yeah - Steam for Linux. I don't subscribe to Steam, so I googled to be sure. http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux
"Linux has no games" is nothing more than trolling. Go find something better to troll.
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How typical, Windows users are bringing down the average.
It must suck living in such poverty that you can't even afford to spend a penny and instead waste your time arguing semantics on slashdot. :)
VVVVVV was definitely worth buying this bundle in my opinion. Awesome game.
For some perspective, there are quite a few places in the world (growing in number by the year) where there is no physical currency denomination that would allow you to pay the equivalent of US$0.01 for anything. Here in New Zealand, the smallest coin is a 10 cent piece, which is worth between 8 and 9 cents US. In the UK, the smallest denomination is 1p which is worth 1.6 cents. I frequently give such coins to my niece as play money...
So those who don't want to pay, but do want to play the games will most likely just pay the damn $0.01 because it's such a pathetically small amount. If anyone is so discouraged by the steep steep price of $0.01 that they don't buy the bundle, then they obviously didn't really want to play the games.
As someone who already owned both, these two games alone are worth at least $10. Don't be stingy.
you forgot dosbox, apart from that I completely agree :)
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The 32-bit versions will work for the games which don't have one. If I see a 64-bit version, I'll get that, but otherwise, who cares?
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I'm apparently not alone in having to at least tweak the games a little to make them work. Right now, AYIM doesn't fucking work, and the Humble Indie Bundle version doesn't even generate any logs from that.
From another post, it seems only one of the games "just worked" with Linux. By contrast, the original Humble Bundle had all games just work on Linux, out of the box, with no issues.
I'm using Kubuntu 11.04. Not exactly an obscure distro. Others are reporting the same problem with Ubuntu 11.04, and that it worked in 10.10. And the forum post dates back to August. One admin replied right away, another replied over a month later, and there's been no other contact from the game devs, and no fix from what I can tell.
I guess the solution is to either track down each game and try a demo first, or buy them for 1c instead.
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Even though I've barely played many of the games in the last couple and I don't even know if the games this time are PPC compatible.
By the way, I am currently offering a good home to any wayward or orphaned Intel Macs. You will receive no actual money but you will know that your machine is in the hands of people who love it dearly and will not sell its internal parts for scrap.
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After you buy, you have the option of "liking" or "tweeting" or "+1-ing" the Humble Bundle, with some interesting stats on who has done so currently...
Twitter has 14,900 tweets
Facebook has 115,000 Likes
Google+ has 1,200 +1's
Very interesting indeed.
Please, head on back to the YouTube comments where you usually reside, because most people here are going to stop reading your comment at "LOL".
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Sorry. Couldn't help it.
I only stated that a true indication of how this *experiment* works out would be better gained by allowing a payment of zero.
I disagree. Then you attract people who aren't interested in these games at all. They just get it because they can, and that skews the statistics of what people who are interested in these games are willing to pay for them. A minimum of $0.01 is completely reasonable.
I know you're a troll, but....
You can pay $0.00 and yet have the cash to pay for broadband? You really expect us to believe that crap? The last time someone tried to get these via an illegal torrent they got the Internet kicking of their life. The chat on Demonoid was rather amusing.
If you are genuinely penniless, cut the broadband, use the library and the saved cash for something important.
OR
Use sites like abandonware.com
OR
Use many of the games that are available on Linux (e.g. Sauerbraten, Super Tux kart, Oolite, Zero Ballistics, Warsow...)
There is no point in kicking companies who play fair in the balls. In fact, what you do by illegally torrenting is damage the very system that most people would like to see companies follow.
Here's an idea, why not skip that $0.99 cheeseburger today and use the to buy the games? Or is that simply too simplistic for you?
Funny, I checked out with Paypal on this yesterday.
It never ceases to amaze me how often people successfully identify a troll, then proceed to give the troll exactly what he wants, allowing their behaviour to be controlled even while they are concious that it's happening, making it even more gratifying to the troll.
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I wonder if Dr Bob, DC realised he started a whole new slashdot meme, one thats a little more cerebral than gay niggers and more lengthy than natalie portman/soviet russia/etc.
I also wonder how many mods are going to see only the N-word of this post and mod accordingly
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
" In the UK, the smallest denomination is 1p which is worth 1.6 cents. I frequently give such coins to my niece as play money..."
I know this is off topic, but I thought I'd add to this. I'm an advocate for getting rid of the 1 and 2p coins. The equivalent has already been done successfully in other countries (i.e. Scandinavia. For instance in Norway the smallest coin is 50 ore, which is more or less equivalent to 5p) with little or no complaints. It would save money and it would get rid of a big irritation.
I often hear people say "they're not worthless, if you add enough together". The problem is that you need to gather up 300 of these 1p coins in order to afford ONE pint of beer. If you're given five 1p coins per day and you save every one of them dutifully for 20 years, you'd still have less than £400. This is simply not worth it, as there must be literally hundreds of lower hanging fruit if you wanted to save money.
Also, you can't really refuse them at the shops and giving them as a tip (even if you leave real coins as well) is considered rude. So unless there is a charity box around when I get them, I think I've just decided to start throwing them away rather than put them in my wallet.
It is pay what you want.
PAY v: to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something:
If you're not transferring anything, then you're not paying, so $0.00 doesn't fit the definition of "pay".
So you should refuse to donate money to Child's Play and the EFF because people who are still actively trying to sell games didn't end up giving away their games 100% for free to everyone?
Indie developers need to eat. And never was it promised they'd give away their games for free. A few of the developers have said they'd open source their code, and they honored that promise.
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Except that it means when prices go up they have to go up by a proportionally larger amount. If prices rise by the smallest denomination then prices rise 5x as much in Norway as they do in the UK.
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Seriously I've checked Demonoid, The Pirate Bay, 4chan and I'm unable to find any torrents. I can afford to pay $0.00 and since Linux has nogaems this is the only way I can get games without the horror of dual booting into Windows 7.
So you don't mind ripping off games for free, but the thought of using Windows horrifies you? You have an interesting moral outlook.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I have a question re some of the bids (from a purely interested-in-the-experiment viewpoint). Did @notch really pay over four grand to get this bundle? That seems rather generous, or reeks of someone trying to skew the results :-)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he gave $4000+. It is generous, from the perspective of an absolute dollar amount. Of course, Minecraft earned him over $30 Million dollars, so it's all chump change to him.
I don't mind paying money for games but the big studio's retail $50/game is a bit much unless it's a really good thing. I do pay for second hand titles if it's under $20. Given you get 5 games I usually end up forking $50 or more for these bundles.
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if it makes you feel better if I had mod points I would have gone with Funny
Yes, I was running ./crayon in the correct directory. The issue is that they included several libraries in the lib32 directory but relied on most of the libraries being loaded from the host system. Run "ldd crayon" and "ldd launcher" to see that.
Unfortunately, they only included *some* of the libraries. For the most part it's not a problem, as things like libm and libcurl are fairly standalone. When they included Qt libraries, however, they didn't include *all* the Qt libraries, and the ones they included have a different version to the ones in most other systems, including mine. Qt is smart enough to detect this and complain because it's likely that the two libraries will be slightly incompatible.
This problem is due to the developer making assumptions about the target host system or not doing basic testing. Compiling a static binary is a possible solution but is sometimes not practical or technically possible.
In the end, the fix was (for me) simple and now one person has worked it out it's simple for everyone with the same problem.
I've actually got a slight impulse to do a credit chargeback since this software is not anywhere near fit-for-purpose under our local laws. With any luck, that'll slow these guys down from releasing dodgy software in future. Seriously, this isn't even worth the buck I paid.
You can try to get your money back from Microsoft, but seriously I don't think its worth the effort.