Humble Indie Bundle 2 revealed, name your price for Braid, Machinarium and more

by Griffin McElroy on Dec 14th 2010 12:35PM

Looks like the organizers of the second annual Humble Indie Bundle are busting out the big guns for this year's charity drive -- the name-your-own-price, DRM-free package includes Jonathan Blow's time-twisting platformer Braid, the infinitely charming adventure game Machinarium, the side-scrolling shooter Cortex Command, the super soothing (and equally pretty) Osmos and the tower defense-meets-RTS gem Revenge of the Titans. That's a whole lot of bang for your buck, or nickel, or thousand bucks.

This year, purchasers can choose how much of their donation goes to four possible recipients: The games' developers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Child's Play Charity or the Humble Indie Bundle organizers. Yes, you can not only customize how much altruism you're going to exhibit with your purchase, you can also customize where that altruism goes! Unless, of course, you pirate it, sending out no altruism to nowhere. You monster.

Source: Humble Indie Bundle

Tags: Braid, charity, childs-play, cortex-command, humble-indie-bundle, humble-indie-bundle-2, indie, machinarium, osmos, pc, revenge-of-the-titans

Reader Comments (67)

Damn I just brought Braid on the Xbox 360. MS should do deals like that.

@daytripper

I just bought it too, that's not going to stop me though.

Like with the first one, I literally just bought World of Goo on WiiWare. The other games will make it worth it.

@daytripper Microsft doing a Humble Indie Bundle?

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Any word on steam activation like bundle #1?

@hizz They've contacted valve and hope to offer it, but can't promise anything!

@hizz Steam activation didn't happen until nearly a year (or more?) after the first bundle had been released. I wouldn't hold your breath.

@hizz Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans are not currently available on steam too. So it might be a bit.

@hizz

first thing i thought as well. in fact i paid $5 for the first one and never even installed it, until the steam activation thing last week mind you.

just paid for the new one, and probably wont install it unless it is added to steam as well. i have so many games to play i'll likely forget about these before i have a chance to play it.

@SmilinGoat yeah, i'm pretty much int he same situation you are. though i might give those non-steam games a download just to try them out.

@hizz They may at some point. Right now though two of the games have yet to be released on Steam: Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans. I'm sure they would only do it if all the games are available on Steam.

@AndrewLGP Oh, I missed Denbowski's post. Still I'm sure they won't even do it unless all the games are available on Steam. They would probably do it the same way as the first one and either way you can create a non-steam game shortcut in Steam for them.

@Denbowski

Those two games aren't even finished yet. They're both following the Minecraft model, pay now and get every version up to the free release.

On that note, does anyone know if we'll get updates/full release versions if we bought the game in the bundle?

@Colin

From the site's main page: "Please note, Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans are still under active development. You are eligible for all future updates!"

@TheGrandHero

Thanks, I didn't see that. That news is awesome.

Sold.

Considering you can spend even a paltry amount, such as $5, the pirating issue is disgusting. There might be some sliver of people who do such things because they hate DRM, etc... but considering both of these bundles were DRM-free, this is yet another example that shows most people who pirate just don't want to pay shit for anything.

@Softserve
I totally agree with you. The reasons that I've heard people who pirate say is that they didn't have enough money or that they they were "fighting" against DRM. This bundle eliminates both of those because you can pay whatever you want and no DRM. The only other reason I've heard is from kids who don't have an intangible form of currency (e.g. credit cards, debit cards etc.). Just have your parents buy it for you if you want it. It just proves that some people are idiots and have no respect for developers. Trust me, I know how hard it is to make a game because I tried. I even have a friend who just made a simple iPhone game. And that was pirated as well. Some of these people just make me sick. That's all I have to say.

I didnt pirate, but I paid a few dollars.

Does that make me bad too, or a very poor gamer who wanted braid and revenge of the Titans? :/

*ALL* people who pirate just don't want to pay shit for anything.

^^ There, fixed that for you.

@Elranzer

no. to be honest, i pirate the occasional anime (if you count watching online as pirating, which it sort of is) because it's so obscenely expensive to get on DVD for something i'm gonna watch once. but i would never pirate this bundle. if i get it, i'll give at least $10.

@Elranzer

Wrong.
There are some people who pirate solely because it's easier than buying the real product, money totally aside.

@Softserve
Try to pay less than 1 $ for a funny bit of artwork to appear on the website.

@Esposch

It's also easier to mug grannies for a living than to get a real job. Being lazy is no excuse to be an asshole.

@harusame

It's a perfectly valid excuse.

Braid alone makes this worth spending money on. Was any sort of level creation tool ever released for it? I thought I read there'd be one

WOW that is a fantastic line up. I love the Humble Indie Bundle, it is such a fantastic idea.

Well I own Braid, but I am super keen on Machinarium and Osmos,so I'll definitely buy this bundle for a 5 bucks or so

$1 feeds a child for a day.

Sold for $5. I'll probably pick it up for my brother as well.

For Braid and Machinarium? hell fecking yeah

I got a 404 when trying to download Cortex Command.

BTW, the bundle also includes:
Machinarium Soundtrack
Osmos Mini Album
Revenge of the Titans Soundtrack

@Richard Jae Apparently they are working on fixing that and the file should be back online shortly.

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar

Yeah, it works for me now.

played all these and love them, except for cortex command. can anyone tell me if they thought the game was any good? i'll have to check it out, but i know virtually nothing about it as is. the info on the site does make it sound pretty intriguing...

@Liquidfingers

I briefly played the free version a while back and was pretty impressed by some of the mechanics. It's basically a side-scrolling RTS--sort of a real-time Worms feel, but with some resource management. The feature set is a little daunting at first, so it felt rather clunky to me, but I guess now I'll see how it plays long-term.

Just got it. My skinny college wallet thanks them.

@Chazzr Why are you asking? Go to the site. Each game icon is a link to the game's website. Poke around. Give some money to Charity at least and then try the games out for yourself anyway. Machinarium especially is an excellent title, easily the best-looking of its year,

Here, a demo:

http://machinarium.net/demo/

The EFF is against WikiLeaks. DO NOT DONATE TO THEM!

@Shalabi Child's Play is for children. DONATE TO THEM A LOT.

@Shalabi The EFF is against WikiLeaks. DONATE TO THEM!

@Shalabi

Since when are they against it?

@Shalabi Um, no. The EFF is against censorship, including that of WikiLeaks: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/join-eff-in-standing-up-against-internet-censorship

I already have 3/5 of the games. Still buying it though. REALLY hoping for Steam integration...

The trailer is pretty great. I'm not sure how they were able to afford Schwarzenegger and Connery and... others.

@ch3burashka

I already have 2 of the games and I'll buy them again gladly: supporting charity and linux gaming at the same time? Count me in :D

What I'm wondering is how much all these games are sold for separately, so that I can add it up, knock off maybe ten dollars or so to give myself a deal, and buy the whole thing.

@Faren22 Its $85 all together

@Faren22
If you add up all the games and then pay half of the total you'd still be pretty cool

Is anyone else having problems installing Machinarium? I keep getting an error message saying the file is corrupted.

@VanillaNowah

Try re-downloading it. It worked fine for me.

@Richard Jae

This'll be my 5th time doing it. I'll try again though.

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Humble Indie Bundle 2 revealed, name your price for Braid, Machinarium and more

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