Fans of doing awesome stuff for charity and having a great time doing it, take note. The third installment of the phenomenally successful and fantastically good willed Humble Indie Bundle is now live. For fifteen days only, charitable gamers can once again pay what they like for a selection of indie gaming goodness, with each of the latest offerings coming courtesy of Finnish developers Frozenbyte. In return for your generosity, you’ll bag highly rated action-platformer Trine, two separate versions of top down shooter Shadowgrounds and access to the yet-to-be-released Splot. You’ll also get your claws on Jack Claw (lulz, geddit?), a prototype for a previously canned project that Frozenbyte are throwing into the package and will hope to crowd-source to completion.
As usual, all your items will be free of nasty DRM and will be available to download as often as you like. With the exception of the currently Windows only Jack Claw code, your downloads will also be compatible across all Windows, Linux and Mac systems.
Although arguably not as strong as previous Humble lineups (remember World of Goo, Penumbra and Revenge of the Titans?), this is still one of the easiest purchasing decisions one can possibly make. Feel free to make your way over to The Humble Bundle website to take a look.
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I only heard about this shortly before your post Mat. I’ve got to say I’m not a big fan of Trine — the controls always irritate me before long. Having said this, I’ve not played it for the PC so perhaps there’s room for customisation there? Consoles suck big ones for unadjustable control schemes, as we’ve discussed here on Tap before.
Me and Hailey’s brother checked out Shadowgrounds after burning out on Alien Breed but to our dismay found that there was no online co-op. Oh noes! That’s the sort of game that I can see being a hoot multiplayer. It’s a shame I’ve not got a minion shackled up under the stairs anymore to play locally, they were the days.
Thanks for the heads-up, I’ll probably get this, even if it’s primarily for the curious Splot.
Done. Thanks for the heads up.
Gregg, Trine is fun on the PC – you get to use the mouse which affords fine control. Although I found the game had really run out of tricks at a certain point. I wrote about it a while back.
Ah! Thank’ee HM.