Humble Indie Bundle 2

Technology and Gaming
#1

https://www.humblebundle.com/

It’s back in time for the Holiday Season. Just like the last bundle, pay any price you want for 5 excellent indie games. You can even split the money you spend between charities and the developers.

The games are:
Braid
Machinarium
Osmos
Cortex Command
Revenge of the Titan

The games are (according to the site), 100% DRM free and will run on Mac, Linux, and Windows. The pack also comes with a 2 soundtracks and one mini-album for:
Machinarium
Osmos
Revenge of the Titans

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I purchased the last bundle and can vouch, this is a quality purchase. All the games worked great in the last bundle, and they recently by request got Valve to give Steam copies to everyone who purchased the first bundle. I can only assume this second bundle will be the same quality.

#2

ill be honest.
im going to buy this, but not because i like charities.

i’ve just really wanted to try cortex command for a while :slight_smile:

#3

Can you get it for free :awesome: ?

Even if you could, I’d feel bad for doing that.

#4

Hmm, I already got Braid and Machinarium on Steam…anyone have the other games? Think they’re worth getting also?

#5

I have Osmos and Braid. Osmos is cool, trancy, casual game. You can adjust the speed of the game from “extremely fast” to “extremely slow” smoothly (using your mousewhell or keys), and the game has very simple, yet addicting mechanics (controls: left mouse button plus mouse for aiming). There are levels/modes in which you have all the time in the world to plan every single move carefully; in other levels, though, you’ll be chased by other sentient life, or you will have to act “somewhat quickly” or you will lose any chance.

The good thing is that the game is able to tell you when it is hopeless to spare you the frustration of looking for a solution which no longer exists.

The game’s levels branch immediately from first level and keeps branching even more later, so when you get stuck at one mode, you can try a different one instead.

Approx. 60% of levels are simple to win (1-3 tries each), but the rest will give some challenge (I needed sometimes 20 tries to win these). Those levels can be a bit frustrating, since you spend 20 minutes working carefully and then can easily ruin it with couple of wrong moves.

Visuals are hypnotizingly awesome, music is esoteric sometimes and trance other times.

Braid is a masterpiece of platform puzzle gaming. Be careful though, some levels require a genius to crack (or, like me, you’ll have to google the solution).

#6

Notch bought it for $2,000.

He is a gentleman and a scholar.

#7

https://www.humblebundle.com/

Just paid a dollar for this set of games. This was way too easy… surely there is a catch?!

#8

I guess the catch is that you now have to feel guilty for being cheap :stuck_out_tongue:

#9

$00.01

#10

00.000000000000000000000000$

#11

The creator of Minecraft paid $2000 for this.

#12

loud coughing

https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=7894

#13

paid a dola fiffy the other day

dont feel guilty

#14

holy cow dinothrasher! I am so sorry I missed that. Gonna merge…

#15

That’s ok, it had floated to the bottom of the page by the time you posted.

I do find it amusing, though, that you got 5 posts with 6 views in an hour, while I got about 4 posts in 200 views over two or three days. Forum’s full of a bunch of kiss-ups. :stuck_out_tongue:

My impressions of the games:
Braid is fun with great visuals, soundtrack, and concept. Some of those puzzles pieces are difficult to get.

Osmos is a unique little puzzle game that also supports nice visuals and soundtrack. Again, some difficult puzzles here.

Revenge of the Titans is a pretty standard tower defense, with the major difference being the enemies don’t follow a pre-determined and obvious linear path. Nothing, however, makes this really stand out from any tower defense games you’ll play on flash gaming sites or as a Warcraft III custom map.

I haven’t played Machinarium yet, but my brother has and says it’s a nice little point and click.

Cortex Command is still very much in beta, and you can tell as soon as you start it. The mouse is twitchy on the menu, and while it supports high screen resolutions the game doesn’t’ properly scale to it. You’ll end up playing on a low res simply because you can’t see the menus or icons on a high res monitor. The controls are buggy, the tutorial is ineffective, and, like Revenge of the Titans, it feels like some flash games I’ve played before. I will, however, not fully judge this game until it’s considered out of beta, and will for now simply put in on the shelf.

#16

I checked my paypal, had $0.04. Paid $0.01 for this bundle, saving the remaining $0.03 for bundles released in the next 3 years

#17

Just bought it for 2 bucks.

#18

What I can’t wait to see is how many people actually pirate this thing.

#19

All you people are so cheap… I paid $20, I wouldn’t go less than $15.

#20

Hmmm

Fourzerotwo in the list of top contributors, he’s one of the Modern warfare 2 developers if I’m correct.

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