The Humble Indie Bundle #2

[Hobo Elf]

Notice how Windows users pay the least on avarage?

Also, Notch donated 2000 bucks.
Notch, I did not buy Minecraft for you to donate the money away.

 

[MapMan]

Notch is worse than kotick.

 

[Gragt]

How's "Child's Play Charity"? Any fun?

Their logo is a console controller. That's enough for me to ignore them.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

I finally decided to give them 18PLN. It's above average workwise and despite the theoretical value being 85PLN, I didn't really want any of these games, except maybe Cortex Command.
Too bad that it's impossible to make a partial buy so that all the money would go to developers that made a product that interests me.

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

I've been having an eye on machinarium so I think I'll get this and pay something along the lines of 5-10 USD. or I would if there was a reasonable payment option, all I can see is paypal and such things, why no card payment option.

 

[MapMan]

I've been having an eye on machinarium so I think I'll get this and pay something along the lines of 5-10 USD. or I would if there was a reasonable payment option, all I can see is paypal and such things, why no card payment option.

Do a google checkout.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

I decided to pay $12, giving $10 straight to the developers and the rest (which was $1.99 for some reason) as a Humble Tip.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Funny thing. I just discovered that Cortex Command runs on the Wine much faster than the Lisux version O_o .

 

[ComradeCommissar]

How's "Child's Play Charity"? Any fun?

Their logo is a console controller. That's enough for me to ignore them.

Derp, absolutely no controllers ever made for PC, not one.

Anyway, got it earlier, paid $15 and don't regret it a bit.

 

[zeitgeist]

A quarter Million U.S. Dollars.. not bad for a half day!! Massive thanks, kudos, and respect to the people of http://www.humblebundle.com

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Apparently Cortex Command dude was about to go under, too. Hopefully this means he'll make the game less of a mess to play, because when the stars align it's a lot of fun.

 

[MapMan]

Yeah, considering how successful the bundle is, he should get his shit together and make CC the way it should be.

 

[Gragt]

Derp, absolutely no controllers ever made for PC, not one.

Well, sure there are.

Here is what one of my controllers for PC looks like:

And that's what my other controller for PC looks like:

DID YOU GET THE MESSAGE, YOU DAMN FLAMING IMPREGNATING TRANSFERT STUDENT, OR DO I NEED TO GET ANYMORE OBVIOUS?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

This is my PC controller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiW9X5EXEo

 

[Tycn]

This is my PC controller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiW9X5EXEo

You know it's bad when they blur out the faces of the testers on their promo videos.

 

[Merkwürdigliebe]

I have to say that Machinarium alone was worth it, is a wonderful adventure game, Cortex Command looks like it's got plenty of potential however hard to say considering how unfinished it is. Haven't looked at the other three much yet, one seems like a standard platformer and the other two I don't know, well it was worth 5 dollars at least no questions there, would probably paid a bit more if I was familiar with the content.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

So I decided to see some videos on youtube, specially of Machinarium since it looks beautiful, and...



I don't know if it was the LPer or the game, but it was so slow. Not adventure game slow, just slow. I guess you don't notice it while playing, but I had like three epiphanies watching the little robot push those crates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6Z5QkfW-Y

 

[Crooked Bee]

Machinarium's good but ultimately overhyped/overrated. Braid's a very fine game to waste one's precious time on, however.
That makes it at least two decent games in that bundle. Not bad.

 

[MapMan]

So I decided to see some videos on youtube, specially of Machinarium since it looks beautiful, and...



I don't know if it was the LPer or the game, but it was so slow. Not adventure game slow, just slow. I guess you don't notice it while playing, but I had like three epiphanies watching the little robot push those crates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz6Z5QkfW-Y

Prolly the guy who recorded it has shit pc and thats why its so slow. It runs way faster on my machine.

 

[Admiral jimbob]

If you buy these now, can you download them multiple times? My desktop's out of commission, and I'm on a rather lightweight netbook that I'm not sure how well any of these will run on.

 

[MapMan]

Yes, you can download them as many times as you want and they promised to host it for the "forseable" future. They even suggest burning it to a cd or something so you save them bandwith.

 

[Metro]

Also the games aren't very large -- it's under 600 MB for all five.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

Throw in the soundtracks, however, and the resulit is 822 MB.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

It annoys me that the people who made a tower defence game will get the same amount of money as the people who made physics for Cortex Command and graphics for Machinarium.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

It annoys me that the people who made a tower defence game will get the same amount of money as the people who made physics for Cortex Command and graphics for Machinarium.

Machinarium guys should be happy they're getting any money at all

http://machinarium.net/blog/2010/08/05/ ... e-amnesty/

We released the game DRM free which means it doesn’t include any anti-piracy protection, therefore the game doesn’t bother players with any serial codes or online authentication, but it’s also very easy to copy it. Our estimate from the feedback is that only 5-15% of Machinarium players actually paid for the game. If you decide to buy the game, you can be sure you’ll support directly the developers, not any big publisher or distributor.

Listen to this pirate song composed by Tomas Dvorak specially for this occasion:

Tomas Dvorak - Pirate Amnesty

The offer runs from August 5th to 12th.