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Humble Indie Bundle 3

Rather DashingRather Dashing
edited August 2011 in General Chat
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The Humble Indie Bundle is BACK!

An excellent selection of games this time around, as always:


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Crayon Physics Deluxe is fun at first, though like with a lot of "make your own solution" puzzle games, it has a few set tricks that work a little TOO well, and the wonky physics aspect of it gives something of an incentive to the "Throw stuff at the problem until it finally works" approach. Still, fun to dick around in. VVVVVV and And Yet It Moves are really brilliantly designed puzzle platformers with a similar(but very differently applied) gimmick. I haven't played Cogs or Hammerfight yet, but I can't wait to!
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  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited July 2011
    Gah! I own 4 out of the 5 of these! :(
    All great games.
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited July 2011
    Hammerfight! Love that game. It needed some exposure, too. Same with Cogs.
  • DrRocketGeniusDrRocketGenius
    edited July 2011
    Neat, I don't have any of these games!
  • RibsRibs
    edited July 2011
    Spent my twelve cents on this.g
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited July 2011
    Great, a bundle with games I've been thinking about picking up but never actually got round to getting yet.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited July 2011
    I first heard the music for Crayon Physics on a video about the benefits of exploring instead of fighting in games like WoW. It was so soothing I got the game and promptly wasted hours of time trying to win. Was fun.
  • Jon NAJon NA
    edited July 2011
    Ribs wrote: »
    Spent my twelve cents on this.g

    this.g?
  • RibsRibs
    edited July 2011
    Jon NA wrote: »
    this.g?

    Dammit man, let sleeping typos lie!
  • Jon NAJon NA
    edited July 2011
    Ribs wrote: »
    Dammit man, let sleeping typos lie!

    That was a typo? I thought it was a (Rather poor) parody of Wall.e
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2011
    Jon NA wrote: »
    That was a typo? I thought it was a (Rather poor) parody of Wall.e

    and I thought it was a talking drunk guineapig.
  • ScnewScnew
    edited July 2011
    I own/love VVVVVV, and I don't know anything about the others, but hey, why not?
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited July 2011
    Hmm, I may have to get in on it this time.
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited July 2011
    This is my first Humble Indie Bundle, courtesy of a rather delightful young man. I've only played Crayon Physics so far - it's charming. The things you draw on the page obey gravity, tip according to their shape, and have mass according to their size. It's like playing with crayons and blocks at the same time.
  • Jon NAJon NA
    edited July 2011
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    and I thought it was a talking drunk guineapig.

    Pftt ... I've seen read about far more interesting rodents who can talk ... Here's one: a Persian fable featuring a talking drunk mouse from the 14th century Iran!
    http://moosh-o-gorbeh.farangis.de/ (It's in English, Nevermind the .de)
    The Story About Mice and Cat - literally the title is Mouse and Cat - has been written around 1370 by the persian writer 'Obayd-e Zakani. The story highlights the moral dilemma of the 'supressed' who faces the problem of his own powerlessness. The mice who fight against the domination of the cats, don't simply fail because of their weakness, smallness or fear, they lose because of the cats' 'superiority' in brutality. For the mice no alternative exists.

    So a passage from the story says: « ... a fellow, on his way to the warfront, was wielding his sword clamoring aloud while trembling and ducking his head simultaneously. When he was asked why he was yelling, he quickly responded I want to scare off my enemy. When questioned as to the reason behind his trembling, he said I am quite frightened myself... ' »
  • MolokovMolokov
    edited July 2011
    So I went ahead and bought this today, gave all the games a quick try. Really think I'll enjoy Crayon Physics, Cogs, and And Yet It Moves. VVVVVV but quickly got annoying because I'm not that good at platformers and kept dying. Hammerfight doesn't really seem like my sort of game, and is there any way to make the window bigger than 800x600?

    Still, it's a better track record than previous bundles. For #1 & #2, I've only really played 2 out of the 5 games, partly because a few of them *didn't frickin' work*! Osmos & Aquaria didn't work on my old WinXP desktop machine, but I upgraded earlier this year to a much newer machine with Win7 and now they work fine. World of Goo was probably the best of the lot in #1 & #2 (in my opinion, everyone else is allowed to have their own :p)
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2011
    Aquaria works fine on Win XP...

    VVVVVV is a great game even if you aren't that good at platformers (like me). But yeah you will die. A lot!
  • GaryCXJkGaryCXJk
    edited July 2011
    I never really enjoyed the free Flash version, you know, back in the day people actually played Flash games.
  • Jon NAJon NA
    edited July 2011
    It's a great game, And a nostalogia trip in a visual sense. But the visuals are also very unsettleing, Like the unsetteling effect watching The Shining and/or Eraserhead has on people.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited July 2011
    Apparently, with this bundle, you can also play Minecraft for free until August 14th.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2011
    neat. Downloaded Minecraft just now.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited July 2011
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    Apparently, with this bundle, you can also play Minecraft for free until August 14th.

    Well Now is the perfect time to see why this game is so popular.
  • AlcoremortisAlcoremortis
    edited July 2011
    Gman5852 wrote: »
    Well Now is the perfect time to see why this game is so popular.

    I still don't understand. I seem to be immune to games that don't end.
  • Harald BHarald B
    edited July 2011
    Just played that free minecraft for a few hours and while it took me a while to get into I'm now hooked. The wiki is a huge help, and as a newcomer you may want to put the difficulty at Peaceful at least to get through the first few nights and build a decent house. (Personally I'm keeping it at Peaceful and playing casually, but that's just me.)
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited July 2011
    The whole reason I got Minecraft was to have creepy nights that I had to desperately evade monsters in XD
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited July 2011
    Peaceful? Where's the fun in that? It's pointless to make weapons! You can't even make bows! The funnest parts for me come from not just from building but exploring cave systems, engaging hostile enemies, and looting dungeons!

    Also, the new fanmade Aether mod is just fabulous. It's more than a mod. It's like an entire expansion.
  • IgnatiusIgnatius
    edited July 2011
    How do you build a safe house? I mean how do you stop monsters to enter your house the same way you did?

    The first night i just build like a stair and spend the whole night on top watching the steps and a zombie that was moving in the distance.
    I don't know wich one was more creepy, if the lurking zombie or me all paranoic and alone on top of a stair. Finally the zombie aproached the steps and i killed it.

    Another question, i thought minecraft was free, so what, after august 14th i can't login no more?
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2011
    Ignatius wrote: »
    Another question, i thought minecraft was free, so what, after august 14th i can't login no more?

    MC is not free. It costs quite a lot of money for an unfinished application. (That isn't even really a game tbh.) It's a sandbox for you to build in. For only 14,99€.
  • Harald BHarald B
    edited July 2011
    Ignatius wrote: »
    How do you build a safe house? I mean how do you stop monsters to enter your house the same way you did?
    Build a door. Barring that, take some dirt with you to seal off the entrance once you're inside.
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited July 2011
    der_ketzer wrote: »
    MC is not free. It costs quite a lot of money for an unfinished application. (That isn't even really a game tbh.) It's a sandbox for you to build in. For only 14,99€.

    The upcoming 1.8 "adventure update" will change all that.
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited July 2011
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    The upcoming 1.8 "adventure update" will change all that.

    Well I guess it will not be available during the test period...
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited July 2011
    If you mean beta period, yes it's coming before the final release. Most likely not before the free trial period ends, though.
  • RingmasterJ5RingmasterJ5
    edited August 2011
    A 6th game, "Steel Storm" has been added to the Bundle.
  • Gman5852Gman5852
    edited August 2011
    RingmasterJ5 wrote: »
    A 6th game, "Steel Storm" has been added to the Bundle.

    Woot!
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited August 2011
    And..... now I've bought it. XD
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited August 2011
    MusicallyInspired wrote: »
    The upcoming 1.8 "adventure update" will change all that.

    I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
  • ted12ted12
    edited August 2011
    Bought. I already had 1/2 the games, but VVVVVV is amazing. It's worth the price of admission alone.
  • Rather DashingRather Dashing
    edited August 2011
    ted12 wrote: »
    Bought. I already had 1/2 the games, but VVVVVV is amazing. It's worth the price of admission alone.
    That's kind of understating it, due to the price of admission being WHATEVER YOU WANT.
  • RibsRibs
    edited August 2011
    ted12 wrote: »
    Bought. I already had 1/2 the games, but VVVVVV is amazing. It's worth the price of admission alone.

    So it's worthless?
  • der_ketzerder_ketzer
    edited August 2011
    Ribs wrote: »
    So it's worthless?

    only of you are a douchebag.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited August 2011
    It is simply of variable worth.

    Like most things, I suppose
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