Humble Indie Bundle #2 is out

[callahad]

Hah, there's a great little image that appears if you enter a value < $1.00: http://cdn.humblebundle.com/hib2/sad_developer.jpg

[wildmXranat]

Nice. Judging by that tuque, he might be a Canadian. So it's gonna cost ya about $0.98.

[empire29]

Ever since i got a Mac i've noticed i've been buying a number "small" apps ($5 - $40, including now this humble bundle. In my previous win-centric life I would avoid paying for software at all cost (as ironic as that is).

This is in large part due to 1) getting lazier (not wanting to deal with finding alternative methods of procurement) 2) apps that cost less generally have most of the proceeds go to ppl actively involved in making the product 3) the sub $40 price range seems entirely reasonable for quality software 4) mac apps generally just look/feel so polished, and in small part 4) having more disposable income than in college/pre-college.

Couple of my recent faves have been Cinch and TotalFinder -- I can't wait to get a chance to play around w my new humble games! Many thanks to the humble team and the devs!

[ja2ke]

All of those points have made the Mac shareware market a viable one for decades. Something about he Mac OS seems to be less supportive of the types of system tray and popup scanning OS dominating spyware/freeware that pollutes the Windows market, too, so it all ends up "feeling safer" than the usual download.com fodder, as well.

[patio11]

I just love how silky smooth their fulfillment is. If BCC downloadable were still under active development, I'd be stealing bits of it. (Hmm, personalized bookmarkable page with direct download links, keys, and settings... Hmm, waiting for Paypal hourglass. Hmm, "as long as we've got you here, please hit our sharing buttons" under the hourglass")

[StavrosK]

I have no idea what you just said.

[ekanes]

They break out contributions by OS, which is kinda neat to see. Admittedly an outlier could move the needle if they really want to throw some money down.

~4k individual purchases.

Average contribution:

Windows $5.48 Mac $7.09 Linux $11.45

[wccrawford]

I made the purchase from a Mac, but plan to play on a Windows PC... Wonder if that skews things?

[pclark]

Is that because Linux is a much smaller % of purchase OS than the other two?

[djcapelis]

Braid ported to Linux? Sold.

[fletchowns]

I can't recommend this game enough, it really is one of the best I have ever played!

[Almaviva]

That's cool if true, given Jonathan Blow's many posts about his frustrations in porting to Linux, particularly the fine grained control you need over sound for that game (play backwards, play at varying time rates). See the long thread here: http://braid-game.com/news/?p=364

[listic]

I'm afraid no. I don't see any informarion to the effect that Braid runs on Linux.

[twodayslate]

Steam key for this one too? I love how they sent it out for the last one!

[ihodes]

That's a +$20 delta for me, at least.

[kmfrk]

Their talking to Valve about it, and they seem to be amiable to the thought. Nothing conclusive, though, but cross your fingers.

[levesque]

Any news on steam for Linux?

[aurynn]

Hopefully there'll be a steam key. Braid, Machinarium and Osmos I already have, but the bundle is worth it for Revenge of the Titans, that looks like so much fun

[agent86]

Am I the only geek who approximated his transaction fee and added it to his bundle price? Between naming my own price and them donating to charity, I felt bad that someone might need to eat the fee to run my card.

Since I assume "Humble Bundle Inc" is processing the transactions, I added it to the "Humble Tip" portion of my order.

[listic]

Thanks for the suggestion. How much do you think card processing costs?

[blub]

Anyone else getting PayPal no matter which checkout option they pick? I no longer use PayPal.

[jeff18]

This should be fixed now - (jeff from humble bundle)

[prestia]

I was really impressed how well this pay-what-you-want scheme worked last year. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like a viable payment option for smaller developers who have yet to acquire the status of these indie darlings.

As an aside: I always end up already owning the majority of games in these bundles, but I buy them anyway. Here's to hoping we can eventually register this one on Steam too.

[citricsquid]

I always find it curious how people see this as some sort of viable method for anyone. It's quite clear that this idea only works in very few situations, yet lots of people will see this and claim it to be a viable idea for anyone. I hope nobody actually tries this for their own games and they're an unknown developer.

[JCThoughtscream]

It's not a "viable" model for the /developers/ involved in the Humble Indie Bundle. Not in the sense of pricing for /new/ releases, at least.

However, each of these games have been out for sufficiently long that having people name their price now is mainly extra frosting on top of an already well-decorated cake. It's a tiny bit of extra market penetration /after/ the game's already made an impact - along with some goodwill towards deserving charities.

[bugsy]

Why do people like Steam anyway? I went to try it out and it tried to install a bunch of spyware crap on my computer and get me to agree to a 50 page legal document full of terms only a madman would agree to.

[greendot]

Woot! That Revenge of the Titans looks fun.

[angrycoder]

This is a great way to donate to the EFF and get some games in the process.

[amelim]

Don't forget about Child's Play either. It's a wonderful charity which raises money to donate video games, books, and toys for sick kids in Children's hospitals.

http://www.childsplaycharity.org/

[mambodog]

I was happy to see that Notch knocked the advertisers off the top of the 'top contributor' list by paying $2000.

Also, I'm impressed (though not surprised) to see the sale crack $500 in about a day.

[bjonathan]

Love that they share their numbers. Although, I would love to know what is the average split choosed by buyers between dev/charity/"tip" !!

[eru]

I gave all to the developers. What is the `humble tip' category good for?

[nhangen]

This is really awesome...thanks for sharing. I already own Machinarium, but I had to get the rest of these...they've been on my list.

[wccrawford]

Yeah, I already have a couple of these, but I went for it anyhow. Partly because they provided a Steam key for the last ones, which I thought was really great.

[raquo]

All these game bundles are so confusing. I can't even keep track of how many times I've bought which games already :)

[guynamedloren]

Nicely designed site, but did anybody notice that the background texture is exactly the same as the one that OhLife.com uses (clickable http://www.ohlife.com)?

Is this a common bg texture, or is there some "borrowing" going on here?

[mcgraw]

Day 2 and they've broke $600k... That is pretty awesome. I'm wondering where most of the money is going? Are people dropping the cash more for charity, because they understand that indie life is tough, or both?

[wippler]

This is great that they are doing it again. I have Braid on Steam but bought it for my Linux. Also awesome that they give away soundtrack for Machinarium and Revenge of Titans, mini album for Osmos.

[bugsy]

The soundtracks were a neat surprise and they are very good. Went right into iTunes and will stay there.

[trotsky]

Do I basically need a gamepad to play braid? Or will it work with the keyboard decently? What about the other platformer and the asteroids style game? Playing under linux if that matters.

[CrazedGeek]

If you can play a platformer with a keyboard, Braid will play just fine.

(Do gamepads in Braid work on Linux?)

[lambda]

I played through Braid just fine with just a keyboard. Great game, by the way; I highly recommend it.

[Raphael]

Osmos plays great with the mouse. You can zoom with the scroll wheel.

[brown9-2]

Does anyone know which of the three payment providers (Paypal, Google Checkout, Amazon) end up charging the least, so as to maximize my amount that goes to the devs/charities/etc?

[StavrosK]

I believe that Amazon's and Paypal's rates are exactly the same, but Amazon picks the cheapest rate automatically depending on if you pay more or less than $10 or so (it automatically considers it a micropayment and charges the appropriate rate), so I'd go with that.

PayPal charges a standard rate that you pick (micropayment or not), and if the guys thought most payments would be under $10, they might have optimised for that, so your purchase would be more expensive with PayPal.

TL;DR: Just pick Amazon.

[sasmith]

I like that the top purchasers are advertisements.

[martinkallstrom]

To increase the value of ending up on a Top 10 or Top 100, they should provide purchasers with more opportunity for exposure, including logotypes, presentations and links to websites.

[staticshock]

What was in the original bundle?

[johkra]

See http://www.wolfire.com/humble

(World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru, Penumbra + Samorost 2)