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The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)

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Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)

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Post by barrettcolin »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #44
heyitsnick wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the extra info. Seems to me like this is the perfect company that can eschew outside investment; I assume they curate these bundles with no upfront payment, and then everyone gets a cut of digital sales. Not sure where this $4m could be going unless they have big plans beyond the current the current model.

Braid can be bought directly with Paypal, Amazon Payments, and Google Checkout as payment options. Corner of the box says "Humble Store". What they do with that is a unknown, but I find it interesting. http://braid-game.com/

That reminds me: I noticed that humblebundle.com is apparently involved in the purchase transactions for the recently released 'English Country Tune'. So maybe there's more afoot than just the bundles themselves:

http://www.englishcountrytune.com/

Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)

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Post by scottmcf »

smountcastle wrote: post #20

Anyone else experiencing Humble fatigue? When this was a special once a year deal I supported it regardless of the contents of the bundle. Now I feel that there's a Humble Bundle once a week and I've stopped reading their email.

I wasn't planning on buying this bundle either, but not because of the regularity of the bundles, more because of the quality of the content. Some of the previous bundles have contained a little much filler/incomplete games/etc.

They've really stepped up the contents with this pack though, I know myself and a few friends feeling much the same bought it immediately. There's an incredible amount of high quality gaming in this pack.

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Post by emillon »

graylights wrote: post #53
shangaslammi wrote: post #5

Why did they drop EFF from the charities? :(

50% to EFF has always been a reason to buy humble bundles for me. With SOPA I'd have probably paid more this time. I half expect EFF to be added back in, so I'll be waiting on this bundle.

If that's stopping you, you can still donate directly to EFF.

Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)

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Post by smountcastle »

scottmcf wrote: post #62
smountcastle wrote: post #20

Anyone else experiencing Humble fatigue? When this was a special once a year deal I supported it regardless of the contents of the bundle. Now I feel that there's a Humble Bundle once a week and I've stopped reading their email.

I wasn't planning on buying this bundle either, but not because of the regularity of the bundles, more because of the quality of the content. Some of the previous bundles have contained a little much filler/incomplete games/etc. They've really stepped up the contents with this pack though, I know myself and a few friends feeling much the same bought it immediately. There's an incredible amount of high quality gaming…

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I investigated several of the games and decided to go ahead and purchase it. I agree that the quality has varied over the past few bundles. The novelty of the Humble Bundle has definitely worn off for me (plus I preferred the original set of charities).

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Post by fuzzix »

agent86 wrote: post #23
ido wrote: post #15

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Humble bundles are now back to back. Indie Royal is every 2 weeks, and 2-3 other copy-cat bundles come out pretty often too. Also, I don't know how often steam sales happen, but every time I go online there is one going on (~50-90% off kind of sales).

One thing I think separates the Humble Bundle from the Indie Royal bundle is that Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I primarily use OS X and Linux these days, so that's a big incentive for me, and helps keep my "fatigue" down. That said, if this turns into a never ending string, the amount I contribute towards each bundle would likely drop since frequency would be going up. Probably somethin…

"Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux"

The experience of the mono-compiled Atom Zombie Smasher (from Bundle 1 or 2 IIRC) was pretty poor on Linux.

Never got to play it myself - I saw it mentioned that it was easier to get it running using wine + the windows installer (including all the faffing about with dotnet under wine) than natively. Might try that this weekend.

All other bundle titles I have played run well, apart from the occasional dual head quirk (though I am more likely to blame nvidia's poor randr support for that)

Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

fuzzix wrote: post #66
agent86 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing I think separates the Humble Bundle from the Indie Royal bundle is that Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I primarily use OS X and Linux these days, so that's a big incentive for me, and helps keep my "fatigue" down. That said, if this turns into a never ending string, the amount I contribute towards each bundle would likely drop since frequency would be going up. Probably somethin…

"Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux" The experience of the mono-compiled Atom Zombie Smasher (from Bundle 1 or 2 IIRC) was pretty poor on Linux. Never got to play it myself - I saw it mentioned that it was easier to get it running using wine + the windows installer (including all the faffing about with dotnet under wine) than natively. Might try that this weekend. All other bundle titles I hav…

I played Atom Zombie Smasher on Ubuntu 11.10 and didn't have any issues whatsoever. I didn't even have to mess with the screen resolution after the game ended (which is generally the norm on my Intel GMA card). It was one of the smoothest Linux gaming experiences I've had.

Re: The Humble Indie Bundle #4 (pay what you want and help charity)

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

Groxx wrote: post #29

And it's a pretty good spread, too, maybe the best yet - the last few bundles & mini-events have been a bit lackluster, IMO. But that's just IMO. If you've never played it, Cave Story is one of the best platformers ever , and you must play it if you are a gamer in any sense. The original is available for free (though you might have to English-patch it), but I gather CS+ is a pretty good port.

I don't know; between the last three mini-bundles we've had Frozen Synapse, SpaceChem, Dungeons of Dredmor, The Binding of Isaac, Darwinia, Defcon, Voxatron, and Blocks that Matter.

Four of those are strong candidates for indie GOTY (and the others are still pretty good) so it's not too lackluster yet.

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