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Re: The Humble Voxatron Debut

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I wish you the best, whatever it is you are, so constructive feedback follows: Voxatron is too humble. I just went to the page. I had my browser window pretty big... taking up most of a 21" monitor. Here's what I could tell about Voxatron: 1. It's called voxatron 2. It's "pay what you want". 3. It supports charity 4. It is DRM free 5. The people behind voxatron thought a sorta mincraftish image would communicate some…

I knew what it was, so maybe I'm not the best test subject. And I agree with you that this kind of thing should be above the fold. But it's there if you use your scroll wheel in the first 11 seconds:

Be the first to tackle this voxel-based, old-school-gone-new platform shooter. Jump into the Voxatron alpha and shoot your way through twenty challenging areas filled with blocky baddies, destructible toys, and palliative powerups.

Get Voxatron's future content and gameplay updates. As a customer of the Humble Voxatron Debut, you'll receive access to all of Lexaloffle's future updates to Voxatron: levels, characters, and more!

Level editor included, with monster creation tools on the way! After conquering the alpha adventure, check out the “BBS Levels” for instant-access to user-created content. Want to make your own voxel masterpiece? Voxde -- the Voxatron level editor -- is included with every purchase, granting you the ability to create mind-blowing new environments to share with the world. And soon, Lexaloffle plans to add monster creation tools for designing your own blocky bad guys to populate your creations.

Re: The Humble Voxatron Debut

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Best quote from the humble bundle video: "Facebook share it, tweet it, Do whatever the verb of google plus-ing is." What is the verb for google plus? +1-ing?

+1 is the action of approval (past tense: +1'd), however it's not very useful, as Humble Bundle re-uses their root URL for the page, so I had already done this.

When write on Google+, the submit button is labelled "Share".

Re: The Humble Voxatron Debut

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: do you really don't know what the humble bundle is, or are you just playing devil's advocate?

A valid question in return would be, "Do you know how many people don't know what the Humble Bundle is?" Moreover, what percentage of the population is even aware that A) you can buy games to play on the computer, and B) that didn't come from a big box retailer? I'll tell you this -- it's very much in the minority, especially when you look at the 30-and-up crowd. Much older than that and the percentage of the populat…

Right, but we're on HN, and Humble Bundle Inc is a YC company that gets on the front page with some regularity.

I'm sure I'm in a bit of an echo chamber, but it just seems strange to me since it's been so widly discussed here and in other places I frequent (e.g. reddit - another site I don't expect my parents to know but would be surprised if the common HN-er didn't hear about it).

Re: The Humble Voxatron Debut

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I wish you the best, whatever it is you are, so constructive feedback follows: Voxatron is too humble. I just went to the page. I had my browser window pretty big... taking up most of a 21" monitor. Here's what I could tell about Voxatron: 1. It's called voxatron 2. It's "pay what you want". 3. It supports charity 4. It is DRM free 5. The people behind voxatron thought a sorta mincraftish image would communicate some…

Are you familiar with the Humble Indie Bundle? This is like that. It's an indie game released for pay what you want to support charity.

I'm familiar with the Humble Indie Bundle, so I knew that Voxatron was some kind of game before clicking the link. After the link, I know nothing new. It could be a shooter, a platformer, a puzzle game, or anything else. There should be a brief description of the game in a prominent place on the page.

Re: The Humble Voxatron Debut

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I adore indie games. Someone should build an iTunes for indie games, or something.

Like Steam or Desura? Or uh, iTunes Store?

> The Desura client currently only works on Windows and Linux PCs. We are working on support for Mac. To be notified when support is added, please provide your email:

Re: The Humble Voxatron Debut

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not following you; in what sense is that crowdsourcing? I assume that the "future content" will be developed by the original developers, possibly using the revenue from this deal.

I think he meant crowd funding.

Thanks, that makes sense.
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