Owlchemy Lab’s Snuggle Truck has been added to Humble’s Android Bundle, bringing the total number of games in the popular bundle to six. Snuggle Truck challenges you to deliver a truckload of stuffed animals to the zoo without them flying out of the back of your pickup truck. Instead of driving down the highway and utilizing nice safe paved streets to drop them off like any normal person would do, you have decided to take the most treacherous route possible, involving sheer cliffs, long jumps, and driving though mine shafts.
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The Humble Indie Bundle folks have announced the Humble Bundle for Android 2. This edition of the popular charity gaming collection is geared toward the Android, but all the games will run on the Mac as well. The bundle features four games, with a fifth available for beating the average donation. But after the complaints of the last bundle, we wonder whether the crowding bundle market is having an effect on the Humble Bundles.
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Did you know that there was another Humble Indie Bundle up and running? The Humble Voxatron Bundle is plush with three different Indie games for you to purchase at a price of your choosing, while benefiting two great charities.
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Another game has joined The Humble Bundle…SpaceChem by Zachtronics Industries. The total Humble Indie Bundle is now at three games…eight if you beat the average price.
In SpaceChem, you take on the role of a Reactor Engineer working for SpaceChem, the leading chemical synthesizer for frontier colonies. During the process of the game, you take raw materials and turn them into chemical products through solving elaborate design puzzles, while surviving the threats that show up. SpaceChem was released for Windows, Mac, and Linux in early 2011.
Purchasing the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle will also get you the squad-based strategy game Frozen Synapse, the critically-acclaimed Frozen Synapse electronica soundtrack by musician nervous_testpilot, and the multiple awarded game Trauma. And if you pay above the average price that is posted on the Humble Bundle site at the time, you will get the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle, which includes Trine, Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor, the prototype of Jack Claw, and the pre-order of Splot. That’s a $45 value for what would be, at the time of this post, $4.74.
As always, you get to choose how much you pay for the bundle. You may also customize the payment split between the developers, the charities, and even a tip to Wolfire Games. The charities as always are the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child’s Play Charity. There is also no DRM in any of the games, and all games run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The Humble Bundle has a little over two days left to go, so if you want a stellar selection of Indie games for a cheap price, now’s the time to get them.
The Humble Bundle has added a new game to the Frozen Synapse bundle. You will now receive Trauma by designer Krystian Majewski when you purchase the Humble Bundle.
Trauma tells a story of a young woman who survives a car accident. While recovering at the hospital, she has dreams that shed light on different aspects of her identity, such as the way she deals with the loss of her parents. The game uses mechanics reminiscent of point-and-click Adventure Games and a gesture-based interface to provide an interactive experience. Trauma has become the finalist for such awards as the IndieCade 2010, IGF 2010 Seumas McNalley award, and the 2010 European Innovative Games Award.
Purchasing the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle will also get you the squad-based strategy game Frozen Synapse and the critically-acclaimed Frozen Synapse electronica soundtrack by musician nervous_testpilot. And if you pay above the average price that is posted on the Humble Bundle site at the time, you will get the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle, which includes Trine, Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor, the prototype of Jack Claw, and the pre-order of Splot. That’s a $45 value for what would be, at the time of this post, $4.58.
As always, you get to choose how much you pay for the bundle, from $0.01 to what is the highest right now, $2000, or beyond. You also customize the payment split between the developers, the charities, and even a tip to Wolfire Games. The charities as always are the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child’s Play Charity. There is also no DRM in any of the games, and all games run on Windows, Mac, and most on Linux.
Because we can never have enough Humble Indie Bundle in our lives, Wolfire Games has released a new Bundle this week. Featuring the turn-based strategy Frozen Synapse, the bundle is stuffed with goodies for all Indie game lovers.
Frozen Synapse, originally released for PC and Mac, is now available for Linux as well in this bundle. This squad-based strategy game features five multiplayer modes, including Secure and Hostage Rescue, a 55-mission single-player campaign with dynamic dialogue and narrative, and random generated content for a new game each time, Even cooler, you can export your results directly to YouTube to brag about your scores.
Purchasing the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle will net you the game and the critically-acclaimed electronica soundtrack by musician nervous_testpilot (which we must say is an awesome soundtrack). However, if you pay above the average price that is posted on the Humble Bundle site at the time, you will get the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle, which includes Trine, Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor, the prototype of Jack Claw, and the pre-order of Splot. That’s a $45 value for what would be, at the time of this post, $4.54. You can’t beat that in any way.
As always, you get to choose how much you pay for the bundle, from $0.01 to what is the highest right now, $2000, or beyond. You also customize the payment split between the developers, the charities, and even a tip to Wolfire Games. The charities as always are the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child’s Play Charity. There is also no DRM in any of the games, and all games run on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
So, check out the bundle and pick up some great games!
The Humble Indie Bundle 3, the third in Wolfire Games’ popular pay-what-you-want Indie game bundle series, has just gotten bulkier! The bonus game Steel Storm: Burning Retribution has just been added to the mix.
The Humble Indie Bundle 3 was revealed on July 26th with five games in the mix: Crayon Physics Deluxe, Hammerfight, VVVVVV, And Yet It Moves, and Cogs…all games available for Mac, Linux, and Windows. The bundle can be purchased and downloaded for the amount you deem it’s worth. Currently, the highest value is $4,096.00, paid by MtGox.com (a coin-exchange site). As has already been seen, some sites find donating money to the Humble Indie Bundle a valuable advertising method.
Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is an old school top down action shooter with a twist. The game has score oriented competitive gameplay, and is designed for people who like fast paced action, hordes of smart enemies, destructible worlds and ground shaking explosions.
If you are a Minecraft fan, buying the Humble Indie Bundle 3 now will get you free gameplay until August 14th as well.
All games are DRM-free, and have demos available for you to review before you purchase the bundle. And you can designate the amount you pay as you wish to the developers, the two charities that the Bundle supports (EFF and Child’s Play), and/or Wolfire Games.
Currently, over 218,000 bundles have been sold for over $1 million. The HIB3 will run for another seven days.
UPDATE: Apple has removed the iCoder version of Lugaru from the Mac App Store, though when that was done is unknown at this time. No update to the Wolfire or iCoder sites has been made regarding the issue. However, Kotaku posted an update today in which a spokesperson for iCoder stated that they pulled them game from the Mac App Store, though gave no reason why.
…or what happens when people don’t read legal agreements, as apparently has happened to Michael Latour of iCoder, who has taken the GPL’d source code to Wolfire Games’ Lugaru and chosen to release the game, in its entirety, on the Mac App Store as his own.
Back a few months ago, during the Humble Indie Bundle 2 sale, Wolfire Games graciously set free the source code to their game Lugaru, about warring rabbits. The post regarding that release was very clear about what was free and what was not, which included that the game assets (graphics, etc) were not allowed to be resold without permission from Wolfire Games.
The game assets are included in the snapshot, and can be redistributed for free, but cannot be resold without our permission.
Apparently, Michael Latour chose not to read the license, or the initial post, when he decided to do just that…sell the game with all game assets without the permission of the developer. You can find the game on the Mac App Store under the name Lugaru, despite the fact that Wolfire Games already has the original version up there under the name Lugaru HD. A spokesperson for iCoder, Alex Maitlin, has already stated they don’t believe they are doing anything wrong.
From the Kotaku site:
While we do understand [Wolfire's] regrets, this does not change the fact that we have every legal right to market and sell the software, and we feel that $1.99 is a fair price. The license we were granted allows for non-exclusive redistribution of the source code or the compiled product, modified or unmodified, for a fee or free of charge.
This is obviously not the case. iCoder seems to be from every indication clearly in violation of Wolfire’s copyright. In fact, this would be no different than any company choosing to take Quake 2, also released under the GPL, and releasing the entire game on the Mac App Store. No one would be surprised if id Software were to file a notice with Apple or a DMCA takedown notice.
One would believe with such a clear violation of the agreement, Apple would decide to bring the game down off the Mac App Store immediately. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case. According to Wolfire Games, Apple has still not responded to Wolfire Games after several days even though the violation is quite obvious. One wonders just how much proof one needs to show Apple to prevent a violator from continuing to sell a fraud of your product on their store. Or, perhaps one needs to have a high profile name.
Whichever is the case, we will continue to monitor this situation and give updates as they occur.
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