Support Games on Linux and Charity!

[techieMoe]

The Humble Indie Bundle (pay what you want for five awesome indie games)

I just wanted to pass along this site I discovered that has several Linux-compatible games by independent developers being sold in a bundle for a price you decide. You can also choose how the money is distributed between the developers and two non-profits (The EFF and Child's Play). You can pay as much as you want and distribute it to any of the three (or all three, or just 2).

I've played a couple of these games (Aquaria and Gish) and they're very high quality. Please consider supporting the worthy causes and getting some cool commercial Linux games in the process. They're DRM-Free.

FYI - I may be bending our rules here a bit. If so, I apologize. I figured this is a charity function AND a Linux-supported games function in one, so it was relevant.

[techieMoe]

I donated twice (once for myself and once for my little brother whose birthday is coming up), and I can confirm that the games I tried (Gish and Aquaria) do run well on Ubuntu 10.04. I'll have to wait until I get home to try more on my laptop. I had to download OpenAL for Gish, but Aquaria worked out of the box.

[oz]

I'm not even a gamer but ran across this last night and almost posted about it then because it sounds like a great deal for those that are. I took a look around their website and so far as I can tell it seems to be a legitimate offering and very worthy cause.

[techieMoe]

I'm not even a gamer but ran across this last night and almost posted about it then because it sounds like a great deal for those that are. I took a look around their website and so far as I can tell it seems to be a legitimate offering and very worthy cause.

I've been keeping an eye on the numbers they're reporting raised. It's gone up nearly $50,000 over the course of the day. That's a lot of video games for sick kids.

[techieMoe]

Ars Technica has a write-up on it as well.

Humble Bundle: greatest sale of indie games ever?

[Lazydog]

Thnx for the link. It is good to see under the statistics that the linux group give more per person the the other 2. WIN $7 MAC $9.70 Linux $13.77 Guess the windows people are tired of paying for everything.

[elija]

Not being a gamer, it's not really for me. It's a great idea though and I have pointed a few Win/Lin users in the general direction

[darkrose0510]

Samorost 2 has just been added to the bundle, so it's 6 games now.

[techieMoe]

They're poised to break a million dollars! 6 hours left. As mentioned before, Samarost 2 is available and downloadable even if you purchased the bundle before it was added.

[darkrose0510]

It appears the only game in the bundle that supports 64bit is World of Goo (and samarost 2, but that doesn't count 'coz it's a flash game). Although Lugaru claims to support 64bit, it really just does 32 bit emulation on 64bit systems.

Which is all rather disappointing IMO.