The Humble Indy Bundle

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The Humble Indie Bundle is a unique kind of bundle that we are trying out.

Pay what you want. If you bought these five games separately, it would cost around $80 but we're letting you set the price!

All of the games work great on Mac, Windows, and Linux. We didn't want to leave anyone out.

There is no middle-man. You can rest assured that 100% of your purchase goes directly to the developers and non-profits as you specify (minus credit card fees).

We don't use DRM. When you buy these games, they are yours. Feel free to play them without an internet connection, back them up, and install them on all of your Macs and PCs freely.

Your contribution supports the amazing Child's Play charity and Electronic Frontier Foundation. By default, the amount is split equally between the seven participants (including Child's Play and EFF), but you can tweak the split any way you'd like.
And now, thanks to a humble donation from Amanita Design: all contributors are given a free copy of Samorost 2!

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Bundle consists of:
World of Goo
Aquaria
Gish
Lugaru[HD]
Penumbra
(Bonus Samorost 2 included~)

Pay any amount, get 6 great indie games. Yes, you can even pay 0.01.

Enjoy.

http://www.wolfire.com/humble

edit: OOPS INDY HURR DURR
edit2: Forgot link, SORRY! (It's up now)

I heard that Frictional Games has released the source code for Penumbra: Overture, because they raised like a million dollars.

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Originally Posted by Mime Taxidermy

I heard that Frictional Games has released the source code for Penumbra: Overture, because they raised like a million dollars.

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Terribly sorry, I noticed I forgot to post a link! It's up now!

And yes, they reached 1,000,000$ today and are preparing sources for Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, AND Penumbra Overture.

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The Humble Indie Bundle experiment has been a massive success beyond our craziest expectations. So far, in just over 7 days, 118,638 generous contributors have put down an incredible $1,079,267. Of this, contributors chose to allocate 30.96% to charity: $334,161 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play Charity. I have made a page for the full breakdown including credit card fees in a JSON format here (json).

Now it's our turn to give back. As of 5/11/10, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture pledge to go open source. We are preparing the sources right now and will be releasing them ASAP. We spent last night preparing Lugaru and it is available now. The code is still a little rough (no Visual Studio project yet, for instance) but hopefully with the help of the community we can rapidly make it more accessible to everyone.

Note, the games will be "free as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer'": see each license for the full, finalized details as they come out very hopefully this week -- stay tuned. It is the underlying code that will be made available to everyone.

Feel free to continue donating to charity, to the developers, or any combination thereof below. We will still be distributing humble bundles to anyone who contributes.

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wow a million dollars, kudos to them
so far World of Goo was the only game I only knew, might as well buy the package