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Braid, Super Meat Boy, and Lone Survivor Added to Humble Indie Bundle V
- thekungfuman 14y agoAny love for those of us who already bought this? I don't want to pay twice, especially considering the only other game I want that I don't already have is Super Meat Boy.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoIf you grab the bundle link from your email, you should have them now.
- thekungfuman 14y agoThey DO love us. If you go to your unique Humble Bundle purchaser URL the new games are already there. Indie Devs are the best!
- peapicker 14y agoFor future reference, Humble bundles have always worked that way... :)
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- ricree 14y agoI just checked my download page, and the new additions are showing up even though I bought several days ago. According to the front page, the new ones are for people that paid more than the average. If you have bastion but not the new three, then perhaps they were based on the average when added to the bundle. That's likely gone up, so if you paid less than the current average but more than the average when you paid you might not have gotten them.
- dlevine 14y agoYou get the new games if you paid more than the average when you originally purchased. I paid $7, which was a bit more the average when I originally bought the bundle (day 1), and the new games show up in my account.
- Fargren 14y agoNo. You get them if you paid any amount before they were added. I had payed well below average (buying foreign currency is currently very hard in my country) and I got the games added. Also, from a recent interview with the guys from the bundle[1]: RPS: Is there any temptation to have it be so you only get the extra games if you up your payment to above the average? Richard Esguerra: No, I don’t think so. That’s not been discussed as an option, but it has been communicated internally that that would be gross. It feels like a bait and switch, you get penalised for buying earlier. That doesn’t make any sense for customers. If there’s anything that we’re super-rabid about, it’s about gamers – it’s about the gamers’ experience, about how awesome the experience of participating in a bundle is. Getting to pay what you want, getting to choose where the money goes. We want all that to be as awesome as possible, so we really try to avoid experiences where people will feel like, “Oh, why did I buy this when I did.” [1]http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/07/humble-bundle-v-added-braid-meat-boy-lone-survivor/#more-111053 http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/06/07/humble-bundle-v-a...
- mikeash 14y agoI checked my HB download link instead of complaining, and discovered that the extra games were already added for me.
- r00k 14y agoFor those that have already bought: if you follow the link they emailed you, you can download the additional games.
- latch 14y agoNot to be ungrateful, but any chance that we'll get soundtracks with these as well? The addition of FLAC soundtracks was great..and for anyone who hasn't checked it out the Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP soundtrack is _amazing_, as is Bastion's.
- FiddlerNero 14y agoI've been listening to the Bastion soundtrack on repeat for the last week :-). I feel like it very much fits in the style of Firefly, but maybe that's just me.
- tumblen 14y agoI thought the same thing! Totally agree.
- simcop2387 14y agoI can't get Zia's song out of my head myself. Wonderfully done sound track.
- SquareWheel 14y agoThe lyrical tracks are my favorite. Just fantastic music.
- moondowner 14y agoEspecially Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme). Wonderful soundtrack.
- packetslave 14y agoYou can find the details of the Braid soundtrack here: http://braid-game.com/news/2008/08/the-soundtrack-to-braid/ http://braid-game.com/news/2008/08/the-soundtrack-to-braid/ tl;dr version: it's all existing licensed music that the Braid guys don't have rights to distribute
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- prayag 14y agoI hope they show up in the ubuntu software center. They are pain to find (after installation) using the .deb files.
- dpitkin 14y agoLone Survivor and Super Meat Boy should be there by the end of the day, Braid already is.
- hexis 14y agoConsidering I still haven't seen Psychonauts in the software center, I am prepared to be patient for these new games.
- jeff18 14y agoI believe Psychonauts is being delayed due to its massive size. I would not be surprised if there are technical hurdles for packaging it that need to be overcome for the Ubuntu team. We've actually received some support messages that certain file systems cannot actually contain a 4.5 GB file, which is a new one to me! These new games, on the other hand, should be finished tonight.
- prayag 14y agoSuper meat boy was already there but cost some 6 dollars or something. Ubuntu software center seems like an alpha. I am glad you guys integrated with this because I want the software center to be a successful product but are you as frustrated by it as the users are?
- replax 14y agoWell, if you are on a FAT32 file system (e.g. often used for SD cards, USB Keys etc.), then you cannot store files which exceed 4gb in size if IIRC. Please correct me if I am wrong!
- herbig 14y agoFor those of you in NYC, I saw Indie Game: the Movie at the IFC theater and highly recommend it.
- jere 14y agoNot implying that they don't deserve it (they absolutely do), but I'm blown away by how lucrative this is for the developers. With some reasonable assumptions, it looks like the original 5 developers have already made $300,000 each. Quite a payday for games that have already been released for a while. I think (from my rough calculations) that's about what Braid made on its opening weekend.
- sheldor 14y agoNo trying to be offensive but Indie Developers, might be the only ones at this particular point in time, to make a difference with their creations, in a field that looks so stale. I believe they deserve their reward, if not more, from the current bundle.
- jere 14y agoI agree. I love indie games and I think they are important. I'm simply noting that many indie game studios would kill to have this kind of revenue.
- benbeltran 14y agoThere's a great book on this by Anna Anthropy (auntie pixelante) http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781609803728 http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781609803728 Being a gamer my whole life, it's sad to see how the industry has been in a rut ever since the PS2 era. As of late however, it's very interesting to see how indies are picking up what the big companies left during the SNES era. Also noteworthy for those who are just beginning tojoin the indie game scene, there are some nice games out there that haven't been in a humble bundle yet: look for games by nifflas, cactus, jon mak, kenta cho and auntie pixelante.
- Fargren 14y agoDon't forget Ben Chandler. He's one of my favourites.
- ericd 14y agoThanks for those. This reminded me, though - I play indie games for their originality, so I'm always sad when I see ones that aren't very different from what came before. Specifically, I really wish indie game devs would stop focusing so much on making new takes on platformers - it seems like they make up a disproportionate number of indie games, probably because they're less ambitious endeavors than strategy games or other types. But, I and many of the others who are no longer buying AAA games because they're looking for something new are sick to death of platformers, regardless of whether it has a new twist on gravity control, or time control, or beautiful artwork, or some other unique twist. It's still a platformer, and the core gameplay is usually not actually different despite the twists. Maybe I'm just not the target market, though. Some wonderful counterexamples to this plague of platformers - Hammerfight (in a previous bundle), Starfarer, Lugaru (previous bundle), Bastion (current bundle), Plants and Zombies. Hammerfight in particular is one of the most entertaining indie games I've played in years and totally unique, I highly recommend it.
- res0nat0r 14y agoI've added the previous games to my Steam account, can I add these new ones which have just been added also? I'm not home to actually try this yet but it would be awesome to have these new games managed by Steam also. Since I purchased this bundle previously I'm wondering if that is possible.
- jmcnevin 14y agoYep... if you follow the link you received previously, there's a new Steam key available for the added games.
- olalonde 14y agoWhy is this on the front page of HN?
- a_bonobo 14y agoThree possible explanations: 1) An example of an unusual pay-what-you-want business strategy that is EXTREMELY successful 2) An example of a successful start-up (Humble Bundle Inc.) 3) Cheap, "independent" games
- olalonde 14y agoThat's what I think as well but this is the fifth Humble Bundle and it's not even the official announcement, simply an addition to the original deal. I'm just a bit surprised this is of interest to so many HNers.
- yew 14y agoThe Humble Bundles are the only reliable source of high-quality Linux-compatible games that I'm aware of, so I expect them to continue to get a fair bit of attention. Though I voted this submission up because of its informational value. I saw it before I got an email about the update.
- ericd 14y agoThe fact that these are all compatible with linux and mac substantially increases their interest for a lot of people here, I think. HB's make up a pretty big percentage of my game purchases on my mac.
- Danieru 14y agoHumble Bundle is a YCombinator company, only makes sense for them to post this here.
- Kronopath 14y agoThis may be the fifth one (actually more, if you count the Bundles that were developer-specific) but this time around the games in it are excellent. It's probably the best of their bundles ever. And the new games only add to that.
- melvinmt 14y agoI'm not even interested in these games but I went ahead and ordered a bundle for $8.50 just because I'm a huge fan of pay-what-you-want concepts and the Humble Bundle execution of this concept is awesome.
- fishbacon 14y agoIf you haven't played them, do yourself a favour and try them, they are all very good games and well worth their original prices.
- sharkweek 14y agoI don't consider myself a huge wuss but I'm still only about half way through Amnesia -- make sure you play late at night with the lights off and good headphones on.
- JackpotDen 14y agoAlright chums. My home laptop can't have linux on it and be online. How do I buy this, and make it look like I paid for it on linux?
- Paul_S 14y agoAfter you buy the bundle it lets you choose how to classify your purchase.