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Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

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Post by shazow »

patio11 wrote: post #42
joshuacc wrote: post #2

The way that they preselect an amount $1 above average is extremely clever. It appeals to people's need to see themselves as above average without costing them anything substantial. Screenshot: http://screensnapr.com/v/QciSbr.png

I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the A/B test, but I still think something a wee closer to http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/deep-disc... would kill both the A/B tested options. Bringing in people's psychological need to be above average is great, but I might do that by putting a nice 37Signals style yellow highlight on one of the expensive options (for some value of expensive which would pay for…

I'd love to see your variation tested too but the data-driven "above average" feels much less accusatory and supportive than subjective labeling of "poor student" and "valued contributor". Makes me wonder if poor students are less valued?

Also the fine-grained payment distribution scrollbar controls make me feel empowered and better about my participation in this cause. Getting rid of them would disappoint me.

This reminds me of someone's donation button on some open source project, it was something like:

    Donate [$5 — buy me a beer] [$20 — buy me dinner] [$100 — buy me a gadget]

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

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Post by VMG »

cookiecaper wrote: post #50
VMG wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just bought it and I'm trying to run Crayon Physics Deluxe on Arch Linux $ ./crayon ./crayon: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Sigh. Edit: for anyone who cares, the (undocumented) dependencies are at least: * nas from the repos * libjpeg6 , libtiff4 , libpng12 , libssl098 from AUR

Also libssl098 from AUR. If anyone is not doing it already, install yaourt and/or aurget, they make AUR packages much easier to install. Note that most of these problems come from a closed-source application A) being linked against old versions of stuff and B) not using statically-linked libraries. I know that statically-linked libs are widely hated but at least where you know newer versions break compatibility, you…

> These installation issues will go away as quickly as someone puts a PKGBUILD in AUR. :D

I'm on my way

EDIT: it will take a while - ldd crayon / ldd launcher has a lot to say, there is no official icon and it is getting late here.

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

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Post by amirhhz »

VMG wrote: post #35
StavrosK wrote: post #32

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It's a hassle to install the deb and launch the game? It's much easier than installing games on Windows, and that's saying something.

I just bought it and I'm trying to run Crayon Physics Deluxe on Arch Linux $ ./crayon ./crayon: error while loading shared libraries: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Sigh. Edit: for anyone who cares, the (undocumented) dependencies are at least: * nas from the repos * libjpeg6 , libtiff4 , libpng12 , libssl098 from AUR

On Ubuntu, I also had to install mikmod.

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

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Post by shoota »

kin wrote: post #26

these are awesome, i just do a $25 and let them decide how to balance it all out. question though, any chance for an iOS humble indie bundle!?

Then the apps wouldn't be DRM free which for me is one of the selling points of the Humble Bundles.

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

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Post by dasil003 »

sorbus wrote: post #34
dasil003 wrote: post #21

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What about people who only play Dwarf Fortress?

You're missing out too - and I say this as someone who used to only play DF. DF is amazing, but there are tons of other games that are just as amazing or nearly so (Minecraft, Fallout, Terraria, Portal, Spacechem ... dear deity, Spacechem. If you buy one game this year, buy it). None of them really compare to DF in learning curve or sheer complexity, but they're all really good.

Who's got the time though?

Re: Humble Bundle #3 is Live

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Post by ConstantineXVI »

bdonlan wrote: post #19
Indyan wrote: post #10

The average is less than 5 bucks. That's simply pathetic. If I remember correctly, it was a couple of bucks higher in the earlier editions.

I already have three out of five of those games on steam, and I bet a lot of other people do too; they've been on sale enough times. It's also very early in the campaign; as I recall there were a number of 'high rollers' that donated very large amounts (IIRC, Notch donated over $10,000). Once they come in the average might go up a bit.

Notch already dropped $2K even and is sitting at #2 right now, "@witnessgame"(who I'm guessing is Jonathan Blow) beat him with $2,718.28
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