New Humble Indie Bundle out now

By Fred Dutton Published 27 July, 2011

Pay what you want for indie five-pack.

The third Humble Indie Bundle is available now, offering five cracking titles for PC and Mac: Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVVVVV, Hammerfight, and And Yet It Moves.

The pack is worth around £30 in total but, as is standard HIB practice, you decide how much you pay. Your donation gets you DRM-free downloads that you can install on as many machines as you desire. All five games are Linux, Mac OS X and Windows compatible.

According to the official site, the average purchase currently comes in at a rather pitiful $4.38, though Minecraft man Notch is doing his bit, handing over $2000, while Braid creator Jonathon Blow has stumped up $2718.28.

Your money will be split between the developers, the Humble Bundle organisers and two charities: the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Child's Play Charity. You get to decide who gets what proportion of your donation.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 10 months ago

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  • mamac123 #1 10 months ago

    worth pointing out that it can be registered on steam!!

  • Matthew_Hornet #2 10 months ago

    Also, if previous Bundles are anything to go by, good sales are likely to result in various nice extras being announced.

  • CaptainQuint #3 10 months ago

    As business models go it's either complete genius or foolish bravado. I sincerely hope it's the former. Good luck to 'em I say.

  • captainCandy #4 10 months ago

    I do not want.

  • DreadedWalrus #5 10 months ago

    There's some rather good stuff there, but it's worth it for VVVVVV alone, which has some of the best music in a long while: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25m3Gk7mRQM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0j6pe043L4

  • Malek86 #6 10 months ago

    The new VVVVVV is nice, runs smoother than the old version. And the extra levels are, for the most part, horribly difficult. 400+ deaths to get a trinket = orz.

  • markopoloman #7 10 months ago

    As usual, fantastic offer. Note to those that got either of the previous 2 bundles but can't remember how to get the games after all this time...... On the Humble Bundle 3 page, go to the bottom and look for a tiny 'lost key' tab - click that and enter your email address and it will send the codes to you :-)

  • bikmate #8 10 months ago

    Bought it. But I'm ashamed for using Windows, our average is the lowest.

  • Davemanz #9 10 months ago

    I liked the last ones but really none of these games interest me. I really like the idea though and hope people pay fairly.

  • mr2ange #10 10 months ago

    Good on Minecraft and Braid creators.

    Nice to see the Indie guys looking after each others backs.

  • TruSmiles #11 10 months ago

    I really love the concept of the Humble Bundle. We get some fantastic games and can customise who gets the proportion of our money as well, it's fantastic. Unless you give it all to the developers anyway, then it seems slightly pointless.

    But either way, gaming charities like Child's Play restores my faith in the industry just a little bit more.

  • arcam #12 10 months ago

    the average purchase currently comes in at a rather pitiful $4.38

    Since everyone could just buy it for a penny I don't think $4.38 is that bad...

  • Stoatboy #13 10 months ago

    @bikmate: Windows will always be lowest just because it's the largest platform by far, and tight gits will outnumber the stupidly generous every day of the week. One large donation in Linux or Mac won't get diluted anywhere near as much.

    Also of course, Linux and Mac users haven't got any other games to spend their money on.

    Yes. I went there. ;P

  • Stoatboy #14 10 months ago

    Also, Notch is currently on $4048. From Twitter it seems he first donated $2048, thought it hadn't been processed properly so did a second bid of $2000. Then both went through. Silly bugger. Awesome though.

  • Optimaximal #15 10 months ago

    Stoatboy, he didn't buy the pack again, you can revise/raise your payment amount upwards.

    Notch just wants to sit at the top of the table (and has done for the previous bundles IIRC).

  • Mkwone #16 10 months ago

    People complain about the low price people are paying, but they'll make far more money that way, than if they had a minimum value that was higher.

  • Stoatboy #17 10 months ago

    @Optimaxal:

    Here's what Notch wrote on Twitter:

    "Gah! I did the 2048 HIB3 purchase first and it never went through, so I tried again with a lower sum. Then it went through this morning."

    Then:

    "Let's just pretend I did it on purpose. ;) Most of it was for charity anyway, so yay!"

  • 32768Colours #18 10 months ago

    This sounds great! I can't believe I completely missed the previous two bundles as I love indie games. Does anyone know if the previous two bundles are still available and what was on them?

  • mukki #19 10 months ago

    nice!

  • SteelPriest #20 10 months ago

    I missed out on the previous ones cos I'm a steam fascist and i didn't know you could register them! How do u go about doing this?

    Oh, "includes steam key". mnngg.
    Edited by SteelPriest at 27/07/11 @ 12:31

  • Ryze #21 10 months ago

    Nice. Is there a time limit on this? It's only that I've spent my 'gaming money' this month, but I'd be interested in giving a decent amount.

    The other option would be if I bought it cheap now, then bought it again next month and gifted it to someone else? I wonder if that's possible?

    Also - it'd be nice if they let us pay more than once for the games bundle. Encourage people to buy anyway, and give more based on the value they get out of the package.

    I'm glad you give this sort of thing publicity, EG.

  • arcam #22 10 months ago

    @Ryze

    If you were going to direct any of your money to the EFF or Child's Play, you could just pay what you can now and donate the rest directly later.

    *edit: or just pay a pound this time and pay twice as much as you otherwise would for the next Humble bundle...
    Edited by arcam at 27/07/11 @ 22:39