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Humble bundles are now back to back. Indie Royal is every 2 weeks, and 2-3 other copy-cat bundles come out pretty often too. Also, I don't know how often steam

by ido 15y ago

Humble bundles are now back to back. Indie Royal is every 2 weeks, and 2-3 other copy-cat bundles come out pretty often too. Also, I don't know how often steam sales happen, but every time I go online there is one going on (~50-90% off kind of sales).

benbeltran 15y ago
Yeah. And it's weird because with steam sales I get the opposite feeling. It's because I'm so used to them probably. I think it's the fact that the bundle used to be a rare happening and now there's a new one at the end of the month. I'll get used to it probably, I hope other people do to. It's a really great project.
agent86 15y ago
One thing I think separates the Humble Bundle from the Indie Royal bundle is that Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I primarily use OS X and Linux these days, so that's a big incentive for me, and helps keep my "fatigue" down. That said, if this turns into a never ending string, the amount I contribute towards each bundle would likely drop since frequency would be going up. Probably something for the Humble folks to investigate - which performs better - more frequent small bundles or less frequent larger bundles.
- fuzzix 15y ago
  "Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux" The experience of the mono-compiled Atom Zombie Smasher (from Bundle 1 or 2 IIRC) was pretty poor on Linux. Never got to play it myself - I saw it mentioned that it was easier to get it running using wine + the windows installer (including all the faffing about with dotnet under wine) than natively. Might try that this weekend. All other bundle titles I have played run well, apart from the occasional dual head quirk (though I am more likely to blame nvidia's poor randr support for that)
  - jamesgeck0 15y ago
    I played Atom Zombie Smasher on Ubuntu 11.10 and didn't have any issues whatsoever. I didn't even have to mess with the screen resolution after the game ended (which is generally the norm on my Intel GMA card). It was one of the smoothest Linux gaming experiences I've had.
romnempire 15y ago
copy cat bundles? can I get some info on those?
- skymt 15y ago
  Right now we have the Indie Royale Bundle, run by Desura, an indie-game download store. It's not strictly pay-what-you-want, they instead use a shifting scale where people paying the minimum increases the minimum & people who choose to pay more lower it. It has no charity component, and new bundles are run every 2 weeks. There's also the Indie Gala. It's a straight-up copy of the Humble Bundle model. Both Royale and Gala are actually running bundles right now. Tomorrow the littleBIGbunch GamesAid bundle will launch, also with the Humble model. The copycats generally have lesser-known, less-polished games, but there's some worthy titles in each of them. http://www.indieroyale.com/ http://www.indieroyale.com/ http://www.indiegala.com/ http://www.indiegala.com/ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-06-pay-what-you-like-for-get-games-littlebigbunch-gamesaid-bundle http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-06-pay-what-you-li...
  - romnempire 15y ago
    i actually liked hacker evolution, so i might get the gala. thanks!
- ido 15y ago
  I rather not give them the traffic & page-rank, but there was something that was literally a 1-to-1 rip off of HIB from some Italian developer & a few others (something with horses I think? really odd stuff).

by ido 15y ago

benbeltran 15y ago

Yeah. And it's weird because with steam sales I get the opposite feeling. It's because I'm so used to them probably. I think it's the fact that the bundle used to be a rare happening and now there's a new one at the end of the month. I'll get used to it probably, I hope other people do to. It's a really great project.

agent86 15y ago

One thing I think separates the Humble Bundle from the Indie Royal bundle is that Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I primarily use OS X and Linux these days, so that's a big incentive for me, and helps keep my "fatigue" down. That said, if this turns into a never ending string, the amount I contribute towards each bundle would likely drop since frequency would be going up. Probably something for the Humble folks to investigate - which performs better - more frequent small bundles or less frequent larger bundles.

fuzzix 15y ago
"Humble Bundle games always work on Windows, Mac, and Linux" The experience of the mono-compiled Atom Zombie Smasher (from Bundle 1 or 2 IIRC) was pretty poor on Linux. Never got to play it myself - I saw it mentioned that it was easier to get it running using wine + the windows installer (including all the faffing about with dotnet under wine) than natively. Might try that this weekend. All other bundle titles I have played run well, apart from the occasional dual head quirk (though I am more likely to blame nvidia's poor randr support for that)
- jamesgeck0 15y ago
  I played Atom Zombie Smasher on Ubuntu 11.10 and didn't have any issues whatsoever. I didn't even have to mess with the screen resolution after the game ended (which is generally the norm on my Intel GMA card). It was one of the smoothest Linux gaming experiences I've had.

romnempire 15y ago

copy cat bundles? can I get some info on those?

skymt 15y ago
Right now we have the Indie Royale Bundle, run by Desura, an indie-game download store. It's not strictly pay-what-you-want, they instead use a shifting scale where people paying the minimum increases the minimum & people who choose to pay more lower it. It has no charity component, and new bundles are run every 2 weeks. There's also the Indie Gala. It's a straight-up copy of the Humble Bundle model. Both Royale and Gala are actually running bundles right now. Tomorrow the littleBIGbunch GamesAid bundle will launch, also with the Humble model. The copycats generally have lesser-known, less-polished games, but there's some worthy titles in each of them. http://www.indieroyale.com/ http://www.indieroyale.com/ http://www.indiegala.com/ http://www.indiegala.com/ http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-06-pay-what-you-like-for-get-games-littlebigbunch-gamesaid-bundle http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-06-pay-what-you-li...
- romnempire 15y ago
  i actually liked hacker evolution, so i might get the gala. thanks!
ido 15y ago
I rather not give them the traffic & page-rank, but there was something that was literally a 1-to-1 rip off of HIB from some Italian developer & a few others (something with horses I think? really odd stuff).