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Postby smartalco » 2010.12.15 (16:17)

HUMBLE INDIE BUNDLE 2

I'm not going to attempt to describe this in a manner any better than they have on that page, so here's a short summary.

5 indie games that are completely cross-platform (Win, OS X, Linux) and DRM free
Pick your own price (seriously, you can pay a penny, although that just makes you a dick as the cost of running a paypal transaction means the devs actually /lost/ money on that)
Selectable portion of purchase goes to charity

Games are (links to individual dev sites are on the above linked site):
Braid
Cortex Command
Machinarium
Osmos
Revenges of the Titans

I'll be buying this for probably $15-$20 after I finish my last final on Friday.
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Postby t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư » 2010.12.15 (16:19)

I already have Braid, and that's really the only one I'd pay for out of this bunch.
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Postby Tanner » 2010.12.15 (16:46)

I bought this.
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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.12.15 (17:49)

Yesterday, I bought it for ten dollars. Really frustrated with Machinarium, really enjoying Revenge of the Titans, and I already owned Braid.

Then, a guy on another forum I visit was really bummed that he couldn't get Braid cause he didn't have any paypal dollars, so I bought it for him for five bucks.

Charity, bitches.
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Postby Heartattack » 2010.12.15 (19:12)

=w= wrote:Yesterday, I bought it for ten dollars. Really frustrated with Machinarium, really enjoying Revenge of the Titans, and I already owned Braid.

Then, a guy on another forum I visit was really bummed that he couldn't get Braid cause he didn't have any paypal dollars, so I bought it for him for five bucks.

Charity, bitches.
I'm a bummed guy with no paypal dollars. Anyone willing to spend a penny on me for Christmas?
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Postby Tanner » 2010.12.15 (19:32)

You know that Paypal dollars are the same as real dollars, right? You can pay with your debit through paypal.
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Postby Heartattack » 2010.12.15 (19:57)

hairscapades wrote:You know that Paypal dollars are the same as real dollars, right? You can pay with your debit through paypal.
Well I did know that, I just wasn't aware that it was quite so simple as all that. I'd managed not to make a Paypal until now.
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Postby Tanner » 2010.12.15 (20:31)

I helped!
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Postby krusch » 2010.12.16 (02:15)

I already had Braid, but I bought this anyway. Cool, thanks.
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Postby Tanner » 2010.12.17 (12:00)

Oh my god, Osmos is fantastic!
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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.12.17 (16:13)

I am really enjoying Revenge of the Titans, myself.


For the curious: It's a combination RPG and Tower Defense. Basically, you can build your towers (of which there are a few varieties) as well as the powerups for those towers anywhere on the field, knowing where your central city is. There are also crystals which you mine using refineries to get money. You have to click the refineries to extract the money; you have to click the guns to reload them; you have to click powerups that pop up randomly throughout the field. This keeps you involved, and, for the most part, off of the tab button that fast forwards the game.

In between rounds, you use unspent dollars to upgrade your options.
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Postby Tanner » 2010.12.17 (17:23)

I really like the art style in Revenge of the Titans.
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Postby smartalco » 2010.12.17 (17:40)

Revenge of the Titans mini review:

Pros:
Graphics style
Nearly everything else

Cons:
Forgetting to reload your towers on one side of the map while focusing on the other on the first level that titans come from all sides.

I've only played for a couple hours and I'm loving this.
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Postby Tanner » 2010.12.18 (01:04)

The music on this games is fantastic too. RotT has a bunch of Kubrick movie music. Osmos has a bunch of great ambient artists including Loscil(!). And Tomáš Dvořák did the soundtrack for Machinarium, of course, and he always does a good job.
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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.12.18 (19:05)

hairscapades wrote:The music on this games is fantastic too. RotT has a bunch of Kubrick movie music. Osmos has a bunch of great ambient artists including Loscil(!). And Tomáš Dvořák did the soundtrack for Machinarium, of course, and he always does a good job.

Yeah, I shouted to Sabrina when RotT started, "THAT IS ALEX'S THEME!"
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Postby smartalco » 2010.12.19 (19:27)

You can now activate 3 of the games on Steam: Braid, Osmos, and Machinarium. The other two will be added once the games are actually complete and on Steam.
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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2010.12.22 (16:16)

The bundle updated to include the first bundle! :D
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Postby squibbles » 2010.12.22 (16:31)

=w= wrote:The bundle updated to include the first bundle! :D
Oh, goddamit. Now I feel like I missed out by being swift and keen. :/

EDIT: No, never mind. I just went to the page for the offer and discovered that I randomly get twice the games that I paid for. Awesome.
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Postby krusch » 2010.12.23 (00:13)

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=w= wrote:The bundle updated to include the first bundle! :D
Oh, goddamit. Now I feel like I missed out by being swift and keen. :/

EDIT: No, never mind. I just went to the page for the offer and discovered that I randomly get twice the games that I paid for. Awesome.
Oh, that is awesome. I had none of these games.
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Postby Tanner » 2010.12.23 (01:46)

I already had the first bundle and I still think that THIS IS WHAT EVOLUTION WAS AIMING FOR!
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Postby SlappyMcGee » 2011.04.12 (18:44)

New bundle! Go buy!
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