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New Humble Indie Bundle Goes Live

Posted by Soulskill on from the keeping-humble-regular dept.

Physicser writes "The latest Humble Indie Bundle has gone live, consisting of Super Meat Boy, Shank, Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, and NightSky. Also, if you beat the average price, you receive Cave Story+ and Gratuitous Space Battles. As always, the games are DRM-free, and this is the initial Linux release for all seven. I'm also curious to see what will be added later on, as has been the tradition of the Humble Bundles."

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  1. One million! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have already surpassed the 930,000 $ mark within the first ten hours, will probably reach 1 million within 12h. Maybe slashdot helps it catapult to 2 million? Go Indies!

    1. Re:One million! by Larryish · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Having bought the previous 2 bundles, I must say:

      Sorry mate, won't be buying this bundle unless every game has a .deb package available.

      Tired of buying 6 to 8 games, only to find out that only 1 or 2 of them work as advertised without hours of work configging and updating libraries.

    2. Re:One million! by lucidlyTwisted · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I've had to do the odd wee bodge to get sound to work on Ubuntu, but that's mostly because sound is still a joke on GNU/Linux.
      As for .debs everywhere, that'll keep the Fedora users happy. :)
      I'm not buying this one for no other reason that I'm still playing through all the games I bought on the others and there's simply too many Humble Bundles coming. They're ruining a great idea through over-use. Which is kind of a shame as I really like the general idea and the fact these devs are playing fair. No DRM, ports to new platforms and even the source at times. Can't say fairer than that really!
      Hmm...maybe as a stocking filler....

    3. Re:One million! by iviv66 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Sorry mate, won't be buying this bundle unless every game has a .deb package available.

      Just for reference, in this bundle Super Meat Boy and Bit.Trip Runner have .deb packages available. Shank is a bin. Jamestown and Gratuitous Space Battles are .tar.gz. NightSky and Cave Story+ are .zip

      Not entirely sure what any of that means, but hope its helpful for linux users.

    4. Re:One million! by RubberMallet · · Score: 5, Informative

      Most of the games on the previous Humble Bundles are available via Desura now, and I'd expect that the latest one will get Desura keys as well at some point (the Desura keys seem to lag behind a bit). Install Desura, grab your HB key from the HB site.. add key to Desura.. and it takes care of making your games work in whatever distro you use. I had loads of fiddly missing lib issues getting some of the games working (especially Crayon Physics) in Linux prior to doing it this way... now.. it's like using Steam... click.. install... click play... no drama.

    5. Re:One million! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And here I was wondering why Linux is dead on the desktop.

  2. hmm.... by justforgetme · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think that humble bundle inc should slow down a bit..
    2 bundles in a month?

    I don't know if it's the games or just me but the last one I skipped because the games didn't intrigue me that much and this one seems about the same to me. It might also be that I'm just disenchanted because of the constant presence of some humble bundle to the point where it isn't something special anymore.

    Am I being a fart or do others think less frequency more quality would be nice?

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    1. Re:hmm.... by Mathinker · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I also skipped one of the bundles (Voxatron) because, yes, it isn't "special" anymore. I started to actually research the games to see if I am really interested enough to buy.

      However, the fact that it isn't special anymore is fascinating because it indicates:

      • It is a viable business strategy to sell DRM-less games for "pay what you want" (even if it's only after the first sales "surge" has finished)
      • Providing a Linux version has (at least some) marketing value
      • There are a lot more quality indie games out there than I was aware of
    2. Re:hmm.... by blahplusplus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "I think that humble bundle inc should slow down a bit.."

      Compared to what the game industry right now is, everyone should want to keep these guys in business. Sure the games aren't that great but you need money to increase the quality of your games. The first games they release aren't going to be the greatest, games take huge amounts of money and resources to develop. Modern AAA games take teams of hundreds and years of development.

      These guys can't simply spend AAA budgets on games they have to find a viable business model before they can expand and grow to higher quality games. Gamers expectations are so high because of 50 million dollar games these guys have to start somewhere. We're seeing an industry reset in a way whether they will make enough money to make more AAA like games or they will just milk it for all it's worth remains to be seen how much money they can get and whether or not they want to grow or not.

  3. Ironically... by SomeGuyFromCA · · Score: 5, Informative

    This makes me less likely to buy indie games. I paid full price for Gratuitous Space Battles not six weeks ago.

    At least the Trine 2 page warns me: "Linux and DRM free versions will be added to Humble Store purchases in 2012." (Which is why I'm waiting on it. Screw Steam-spyware.)

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  4. Re:Why do I need a Steam key? by grumbel · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Humble Bundle doesn't need the Steam keys, they are just an optional addition, you can simply download the .bin/.exe/.tar.gz directly if you want.

  5. Indie Royale Bundle by grumbel · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those that have missed it: Seems like the Humble Bundle is getting a bit competitions, a few weeks ago the IndieRoyale Bundles got launched, they follow a similar model of multiple games for an almost-pay-what-you-want price (min around $3). it however doesn't have the charity and it only sometimes has Linux versions of the games. Also their game selections seems to be not so great most of the times, however they include a gem every now and then.