http://www.humblebundle.com/

Go and pay what you want (even $0.1) for a bundle containing Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos and Revenge of the Titans. They all work on Windows, Linux and Mac and are 100% DRM free.

Cortex Command is worth at least $10 bucks, imo. Great game.

Oooo; Braid? I always meant to give that a try, guess I got an excuse now ...

EDIT: Oh, hey, Machinarium is that game? I've seen that played; that's fun too.

10 cents? That's outregis!

Revenge of the Titans looks pretty fun. Braid does too. I think Cortex Command looks good, but I think I would just get pissed at it.

I picked up the last humble bundle and loved every game in it. Just got this one too. Cortex Command looks fun, and braid is awesome (I have it on XBLA, I wonder how well it is on the PC/Mac)

Can't get my Machinarium download to go past 1% ....

Hmm, already bought 3/5 of the games previously. Might need to pay 2/5 of the average. But then how am I supposed to boycott Paypal, and Amazon, and Visa? Unless...

At the time of this post

Total revenue: $253,398.73
Number of purchases: 36,939
Average purchase: $6.86
Average Windows: $5.67
Average Mac: $7.68
Average Linux: $13.83

Windows users are the cheapest and Linux the most generous?

They're just not used to having decent games to play.

Or they haven't previously wasted money buying apps that Linux comes with for free.

So then who really is the cheap one

There's a difference between intelligence and throwing your money away.

Yeah, you're probably right. The 80% of people who use Windows are just dumb. That's the simplest answer.

It's down to 80%?

More money than brains, anyway. If they have enough money to dispose of, they might still have some brains. Of course the malware might get you in trouble anyway.

I was just giving a conservative estimate ... anyway I think my original point is correct. There aren't a lot of good games for Linux so something like this is a big deal for Linux users. Windows users already have a huge set of games pumped at them constantly so these are not as significant.

I didn't get my 1 cent worth out of the previous bundle.

If they had some RPGs I might be interested.

out of interest, of those who have downloaded the bundle, how much have you paid?

I just grabbed the torrent.

$1.00 (hey atleast I'm honest )

My butt. I paid full price and they never update it. It's such a waste of money.

I paid $18 all up, $10 to the developers, $3 to each charity and $2 as a tip, which I assume is going to wolfire games. I already own Braid, Osmos and Revenge of the Titans, and $10 for the other 2 games seems like a bargain.

I put myself down as a linux user, because I really would like to see more comercial linux games.

I spent 20 bucks. Oddly, when I tried to split it even between developers and the "humble tip", it calculated 10.01 and 9.98. lawl sliders.

And I still can't download Machinarium ... Braid is pretty impressive after a couple of worlds though.

EDIT: Got my Machinarium downloading now via the pirates. Hope they're paying for it too but I doubt it. A penny for the children? I need that money for grog and wenches, arggg!

It seems $29.95 was an example input in the textbox and that seemed reasonable so I went with that. Of course, I also classify myself under Linux. Indeed, I think that Linux users pay more because they appreciate the open nature of the Humble Bundle. The code isn't necessarily open (albeit, most of the code was opened up for the last bundle), but at least the license is pretty fair: use as many times on as many computers, etc. That on top of the fact that they're making Linux ports makes it well worthwhile to support them. It helps that the games are generally pretty good too.

humble bumble

Hmmm, 'Top Contributors' is interesting; looks like Notch is giving back.

I did $15. I can't remember how I divided it out, all I know is that I already had Braid for XBLA and Osmosis for my iPad, so I thought that was fair.

Damn straight, he better be!

He's already cost my place of business at least $500^[1] with his game and those infernal Creepers! SSSssssss! (And thats not counting lost man hours )

Good to see people still care for indie games... came here thinking "these lazy guys at A.cc surely haven't posted it yet", but looks like I was wrong

Anyways, gonna get it myself for USD 50. After years of hard working I am finally able to spend that much per month in leisure!

(Edited: By the way, since I don't want to open a new thread because it would look like I come here just to post links, I am putting it here: gDEBugger GL for Windows (an OpenGL debugger) is allowing people to grab a one-year license for free. I guess some around here would like having something like that for profiling).

That seems like a perfectly good reason to start a new thread.

Also, you should definitely come back here, unless you actually have something better to be doing.

Will give you (or anyone else) the privilege of starting a thread about it, not that I will be using it (never used it in fact) but I heard it is pretty good.

And for now job is keeping me pretty busy, plus I joined some Japanese communities to start practicing my comprehension, and will probably start subbing stuff starting next year. I don't even code at home anymore, something I would like to but right now don't have the time.

Hehe, they lied about "any amount", if you enter 0.0 you get a funny picture though.

Bought it. Downloaded machinarium just now (after playing and enjoying the demo this morning), didn't have any problems (took about 7 minutes). Never heard of any of the other games before but Cortex Command looks neat too.

Braid was the only game I knew of. And the TD style game (which I won't play those types of games bore me) because of Notch's twitter or blog post about it.

I finished Braid yesterday; it's not perfect (the story is annoyingly vague for openers) but it's pretty damn brilliant IMHO.

Machinarium I'm stuck in. Haven't tried the other games.

Now who says that Allegro.cc members never finish anything?

Now I'm curious if that is actually one of the creators. That would just be awesome (though less so that he didn't do it here...).

He didn't do anything, just registered.. Even if it's one of'em. Big deal.. No posts, no projects.. o0

The forum doesn't show old posts in people's profiles.

http://devlog.datarealms.com/cortex-command/open-sores-in-action/

My bad.. However:

Do you have that thread in your bookmarks now?

Append:
Wow, 2006.. Long before I joined the party

Why are they always games I already have? The only one I don't have this time is Revenge of the Titans. I guess that's worth a penny just to have it, though I already have too many games I've never played.

Move to thepiratebay.org so you don't regret having what you don't need. I guess most of the games I've downloaded got erased before me even trying'em.

I found one of his old posts from four years ago.

http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/588230/623410

Yay, finished Machinarium today (took about eight hours for the whole game split into two sessions, started yesterday evening). Neat. Now on to Cortex Command.

By clicking on gnolam's link?

That doesn't show anything, I had to google it.

His linked page starts out with:

Oh! That link! I didn't want to click on something called "open sores".

Wow, the controls/interface in Cortex Command are/is a player-repellent nightmare.

True. But the game is fun. Relatively.

I'm not big on it. I see what they're going for but it's just a headache getting anything to do anything.

Osmos was okay. I'm stuck in Machinarium; guess you can't take that elevator twice ...

EDIT: nm, I beat Machinarium. Took me a while to realize that other robot still had the hose in his inventory. >_>

Well, they made it so you can get your humble bundle on Steam. That's the straw that broke my back, so I bought it. Yay!

Merry Christmas to me!

I guess that's why they extended the timer. I expected it to be almost done but the clock says 5 more days.

At least they broke a million. And lawl, someone paid $3,141.59.

I didn't catch that was the value of PI until 23yrold pointed out the value. Here I just thought someone just wanted to pay more than Notch.

Purchasers of the 2nd bundle now get the first one as well!

Yay, I just got that mail too. Hooray!

Already had it. But yeah, nice bonus.

Now when's #3 ...

Nice!
And thanks for posting it, since I didn't get any mail to that effect.

Considering the only e-mails I have gotten was for my Steam key for the first Bundle, this thread is really helpful for me. Without this thread, I could have been late getting the second bundle.

Wonder why I'm not getting any e-mails?

Did you at least get the email with your bundle link?

Yes

It seems e-mails with news is not getting to me.

The getting the first bundle I may not have gotten because I already have it.

Yeah but I already have it too ...

The only e-mails I have gotten this year was a link to get my Steam key for the first bundle, then the link to the second bundle when I paid for it.

And the link for the Steam key for the first bundle actually told me that the second bundle was coming, but nothing else.

Okay, I think I see the issue. From the site:

So to everyone that didn't get an email: no, they didn't really appreciate your $0.01.

I checked my link, I do have it. Only people buying now has to pay more to get both sets.

Oh, I didn't really pay attention. That's a clever way to get the average up. At first, I thought it was just a constant value set probably from the average of the previous bundle.

So I just finished looking over the old HIB games (admittedly, the only one I really played was Gish for lack of time) and there was more interesting stuff in there than I though. So here's a little informal poll since the first bundle has come back into relevance: rate the 11 HIB games (6 from the first one, 5 from this one) from best to worst. I'll have to give the ones from the first pack another go, but right now my top three would be:

• Braid

• Gish

• Machinarium

I've only played World of Goo from the first HIB. If I was to pick my favorite game from the second bundle I'm going to have to say Machinarium however I have yet to play Braid. Everything I've read and heard makes me think that Braid will be my favorite...

1. Penumbra Overture.

2. World Of Goo.

3. Aquaria.

4. Gish.

5. Lugaru (the required precision and fast action make this game very hard to play).

6. Samorost 2.

I haven't played any of the games from the second bundle yet.

Ah! I think they must have only sent that piece of news out to people who opted in to spam.
(Yes, that is what "Notify me about..." or "I would like to receive..." checkboxes mean. )

Actually, I got my e-mail about the first bundle being added. I should double check my 'spam' setting (if they allow me to change it later)

I'm not sure about my settings for the Humble Bundle, but it's likely that I wasn't afraid of them spamming me, and indeed they haven't. The only E-mails that I think I've gotten were for my two URLs (and the latest one to notify me that I got the original bundle included with the second, which doesn't benefit me much).

I gave Cortex Command a second chance (and a third, fourth, fifth, ...). It's growing on to be a love/hate relationship. Just which of all those games should I play next?, none of the ones from the first bundle does look particularly interesting to me.

World of Goo is awesome.

Ah, I should have mentioned I already played that when it was released (must have been one or two years ago).

I feel the same way about most of the games in this bundle (and the first bundle). In fact, I think there is a motif I've found in most of the top indie games.

All of the top indie games, like World of Goo, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Darwinia, etc ... are all wonderful and inspired. They really flush out these innovative ideas and styles that you can't find in AAA titles. That's great, but about mid-way through each game, and definitely by the end, I get this overall sense of being unsatisfied. They all end too soon, run out of content, and often lack polish.

Take Lugaru for example. I heard great things about it, but upon playing it I was shocked how ruff the cut scenes are, how long and boring the tutorial is, and how clunky and unresponsive the controls feel.

The lack of a large developer base really shows in these games. Even with Osmos, which is far more polished than Lugaru, I can tell they had a single great idea, and are now beating it to death by multiplying it with small variations into different levels.

Contrast all this with Batman: Arkham Asylum, as an example. I didn't feel Batman had any innovative or interesting game play. The fighting was lack luster and the story generic. But it packed so much content, you could tell it was just bursting through the seams of the DL-DVD. Just truckloads upon truckloads of achievements, extra story, voice-acting, cutscenes, character bios, etc. And while the game mechanics were just stupid and inane, they provide a big interesting twist with almost every level that gave me just enough fun to keep playing.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go frustrate myself with Machinarium.

Machinarium seems to be unplayable on this machine.
The frame rate is fine, but input is completely bugged - it lags, behaves erratically, and occasionally turns into some sort of Newtonian acceleration mode, where the portions of mouse input that actually register only serve to accelerate the cursor in some direction.

What I did was extract the .swf and run it with a more recent Flash player. I think it was with a tool called exe2swf. (This was a few months ago, though.)

I think I read somewhere in the Machinarium help file that performance is better on some machines if you disable hardware acceleration. Might be completely unrelated to the input performance though.

I bought this for $15 and have played through World of Goo and Braid already. That stuff is really addictive!

Aquaria isn't really pulling me in, though it's pretty. Revenge of the Titans seems to get awfully hard awfully quick; I can't even take down the first "boss" before he punts my base in one shot. Penumbra is intriguing though I've just started it ...

EDIT: Aquaria is growing on me. I've taken to calling it Samus the Mermaid. Reminds me of Solar Jetman. Finally passed the first world in RotT and it's getting a bit better, but it keeps locking up for a second or two every 15-ish seconds. Kinda annoying.

Yeah, Revenge of the Titans is really difficult, but notice that every complete mission brings you a medal saying something along the lines of "completed the mission on the highest difficulty level", so I suppose you can set it to easier somehow.

Aquaria seemed prety cool. I played the demo... but I got stuck So I didn't bother to play the full version when I got the bundle But one day I'll try again!

Final tallies ...

Total payments:  $1,824,220.41
Number of purchases: 232,852
Average purchase:    $7.83
Average Windows:     $6.67
Average Mac:         $9.26
Average Linux:       $13.77

Top contributors:
1 Nexus Scorpion      $6,132.96
2 Anonymous           $5,555.55
3 Play.onlive.com     $5,000.00
4 grflwitz            $3,141.59
5 @notch              $2,000.00
6 Riot Games Dev Team $1,500.00
7 Metasploit          $1,337.00
8 Journeyman @ RPS    $1,100.00
9 @ExpiredPopsicle    $1,024.00
10 Site5.com Coupon   $1,000.00

Good chunk of change there. Wouldn't mind seeing the developer/tip/charity breakdown ...

Started Penumbra yesterday. Nice puzzles so far...

Machinarium worked on my desktop machine. And while the art is absolutely gorgeous and the soundtrack has a few gems, the game as a whole is less than stellar. As in "there were times I felt like buying a plane ticket to the Czech Republic so I could punch the developers in the face".
There are a few really good puzzles in there, but also a lot of awful ones. Hell, it has a sliding block puzzle (#1 puzzle crutch of bad designers everywhere!), which alone instantly disqualifies it from the good adventure game category.

And there's more. Throughout almost the entire game, you solve puzzles without knowing why; if you've played a couple of adventure games, you can recognize a stock puzzle situation when you see one - "ah, fetch quest", "turn off the water here", "fix these guys' instruments" - but you have absolutely no idea why you should be doing all these things. And in this game, the end result usually follows some kind of crazy moon logic. Then there's stuff like poor hotspot handling, a few pixel bitch puzzles, the slow walking pace, etc.
But the worst thing about the game? The blatant play time extenders. For example, forcing you to redo a puzzle several times, or inserting random minigames. The last one (the "mind hack" sequence) is actually the worst example of this I have ever seen in my life.

This may not be news to anyone here, but apparently Puppy Games has said that they will open source Revenge of the Titans if the HIB #2 makes more than $1.75 million.

Source: http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/12/Revenge-of-the-Titans-will-go-open-source-at-1-75M

..finished Penumbra yesterday. There were a few very annoying/unforgiving moments where I had to keep reloading to avoid death but apart from that it was a solid adventure experience even though the story was boring at first and the puzzles were all quite easy but it got more interesting towards the end.

I actually thought that was kind of neat. I more or less agree with the rest of your post though. Lots of good puzzles, but very little logic running through them to keep you from ultimately employing the "click everything on everywhere" stratagem.

Of all the games in both HiBs, I'm pretty sure that's the one I'd be least interested in getting the source code for.

Aquaria is starting to wear out my good graces. I feel like a rat in a maze with very little direction or overall goal. There's like 6 different paths I can take right now, all of which run for ages in wildly different directions with who knows what anywhere. I found a few recipes and a turtle ... joy. Pretty music and graphics, immersive gameplay, zero pacing.