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Wolfire Games, in cooperation with 2D Boy, Bit-Blot, Cryptic Sea, and Frictional Games, has unveiled The Humble Indie Bundle. The collection includes Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, Penumbra: Overture, and World of Goo.

Purchasers are asked to pay whatever price they feel is fair for the bundle, with some of the proceeds going to the Child's Play and EFF charities. Those who purchase the bundle are also given the option to buy the remaining Penumbra games (Black Plague and Requiem) for the discount price of $5.

The Bundle
Five independent game developers, headed by Wolfire Games, have joined forces and created a bundle of games. The bundle consists of: Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, Penumbra: Overture and World of Goo.

Everybody that gets the bundle are also able to buy the remaining Penumbra games (Black Plague and Requiem) with a 75% discount (for only $5 that is)!

Go to the Humble Indie Bundle Website to check it all out!

Pay what you want & how you want
Get the bundle for the price that you feel is right. That is right, you pay whatever you like! You can choose to use PayPal, Amazon or Google Checkout as payment methods. Two charities, Child's Play and EFF, are part of the bundle and by default the donation is evenly split evenly between the games and charities. It is also possible to adjust how the donation is split, if wanted you can give it all to charity!

Cross-Platform: PC, Mac and Linux
That's right, not only do you get five games for a price you choose, you also get all of them for all three computer platforms.

No DRM
All games comes completely free of any copy protection or other cumbersome DRM.

Spread the word
If you think this bundle is a good idea, please spread the word using any means you see fit. Thank You!

Those who purchase the bundle are also given the option to to buy the remaining Penumbra games (Black Plague and Requiem) for the discount price of $5.

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[nagromme]

The Penumbra series is pretty fun—each of the 3 games has its own slightly different play style (the first having more “combat” of a sort, the middle having more stealth, and the last having more complex puzzles).

[ikir]

nagromme, on 05 May 2010 - 11:10 AM, said:

The Penumbra series is pretty fun—each of the 3 games has its own slightly different play style (the first having more “combat” of a sort, the middle having more stealth, and the last having more complex puzzles).

Impressive for a "pay what you want"!! Support them!

[Wumpus]

Already own each of these separately, but I bought the pack for a friend. Put the "all to devs" option. Charity is nice, but I'd rather support the indies straight up.

[badger2d]

Pretty cool deal here.  I've tried the demos of both Aquaria and World of Goo quite some time back and liked but never got around to buying.  Penumbra I probably won't ever install because I hate horror, but at name your own price for the bundle that's irrelevant.

[ikir]

badger2d, on 06 May 2010 - 02:11 AM, said:

Pretty cool deal here.  I've tried the demos of both Aquaria and World of Goo quite some time back and liked but never got around to buying.  Penumbra I probably won't ever install because I hate horror, but at name your own price for the bundle that's irrelevant.

Give it a try... Penumbra is an incredible game.

[Matt Diamond]

ikir, on 06 May 2010 - 03:12 AM, said:

Give it a try... Penumbra is an incredible game.

According to the Penumbra web site, if you get the Indie bundle (includes P:O) you can then go to their website to get the rest of the series for $5.
http://www.penumbragame.com/

[Thain Esh Kelch]

Threw 40$ at the developers. Cool stuff.

Never heard about the black blob game though, but it looks interesting..

[teflon]

Matt Diamond, on 06 May 2010 - 04:48 AM, said:

According to the Penumbra web site, if you get the Indie bundle (includes P:O) you can then go to their website to get the rest of the series for $5.
http://www.penumbragame.com/

Yup, there's a code in a readme in the disk image you download for Penumbra that gets the cost right down to $5 for the whole collection. Stupidly, you end up having to download the first episode a second time as part of the collection, but oh well...

[bookman]

teflon, on 06 May 2010 - 06:21 AM, said:

Yup, there's a code in a readme in the disk image you download for Penumbra that gets the cost right down to $5 for the whole collection. Stupidly, you end up having to download the first episode a second time as part of the collection, but oh well...

Just got this - neat deal. I remember trying the demo to Penumbra some time ago and being impressed.

[Mister Mumbles]

It definitely is a nice deal, although I already own the only three games of interest to me: WoG, Aquaria, and Penumbra.

[Frigidman]

I bought it too, then bought the $5 penumbra expansion as well. I was gonna donate $5000 and put my name on the top of the donaters list ... but I didn't have $5000 right now.

[the Battle Cat]

Frigidman, on 07 May 2010 - 01:59 PM, said:

I bought it too, then bought the $5 penumbra expansion as well. I was gonna donate $5000 and put my name on the top of the donaters list ... but I didn't have $5000 right now.

Piker.  I donated a million bucks but my check bounced.

[Eric5h5]

What a bunch of cheapskates.  I gave them $10 million, but they gave it back 'cause I'm so awesome.

--Eric

[badger2d]

The Humble Indie Bundle has now grown to 6 games, it appears.  Another company has thrown in their game, Samorost 2.  1-day-+ remaining if anyone hasn't picked it up yet.

Also, I like that they let me choose the platform I'll be counted for - even though my Mac has kicked the bucket, torn down the curtains, passed on to its final reward, etc. and I'm at this moment downloading Windows versions on my wife's PC, I still get to represent.

[Frigidman]

badger2d, on 09 May 2010 - 08:08 PM, said:

The Humble Indie Bundle has now grown to 6 games, it appears.  Another company has thrown in their game, Samorost 2.  1-day-+ remaining if anyone hasn't picked it up yet.

Also, I like that they let me choose the platform I'll be counted for - even though my Mac has kicked the bucket, torn down the curtains, passed on to its final reward, etc. and I'm at this moment downloading Windows versions on my wife's PC, I still get to represent.

Yeah, most of them I downloaded for the pc because my mac isn't really too hip on the heavy graphical ones, but I chose Mac as where my donation came from.