Shadowcat on 19/12/2013 at 23:13
Puppy Games and Ian Livingstone have made the best Humble Bundle video ever.
The sale is their current (
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly) Weekly Sale, not the main bundle, and it deserves its own thread because of this:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFinq4N3Ofs)
Existing direct customers NEED to note the following from the (
http://www.puppygames.net/blog/?p=1508) associated blog post:
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Where have all the direct versions gone?
They have gone to videogame heaven, where they eat power pills and mine Tiberian crystals with attractively attired characters from long-forgotten 8-bit titles. We have conceded that Valve have won the distribution and payment processing war, at least insofar as PC downloadable indie games is concerned. 99% of our income comes from Steam. So with a quiet goodbye, the direct downloads of all our titles have slipped away like ships in the night to the West. There will be no further updates to the direct downloadable games – we’re using Steam for that from now on.
However we will endeavour to keep the completely DRM-free versions that Humble Bundle host up-to-date.
If you’ve got a Puppygames version of our games, please get yourselves a Steam key from here – and if you really, really don’t want to use Steam, consider donating a small token of your esteem to the Humble Puppy Bundle, and grab yourselves DRM free versions.
Other comments of note:
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You will also notice that Droid Assault and Ultratron have both been updated with two-player local co-op mode. Just grab your 360 controllers and join in. Yay! Expect bugs.
And you’ll also see that Revenge of the Titans has a Christmas Mode which appears only for the festive season (from 19th December to early January or thereabouts). And Droid Assault has a special new Christmas Mission too! Which is all very silly and hopefully a bit of fun.
You'll also get soundtracks, and (if enough money is raised) source code as well. When the very first Humble Indie Bundle announced that almost all the developers would release their source code if enough money was raised, I thought it might be the start of a new era. Alas, I think that was the only time it happened. Until now. Nice one, Puppy Games! Your games will live on...
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It’s quite likely as readers of our bloggage that you already own all our games. What is less likely though is that you have the two soundtracks – the incredible metal guitar/electro synth six-track EP from Revenge of the Titans, and Allicorn’s 14-track OST for Ultratron of gut-thumping electronic dance music (it’s great to code to!). Even less likely is that you’ve seen the source code to all these games. Now is your chance! Now, the Humble Bundle edition of the games is worth buying all on its own just for the soundtracks, let alone the games, but if it makes over $150k (and thusly some reasonably huge five figure sum for our chosen charity, Gamesaid) we’re going to release the source code for you all to look at and have a good laugh about. Gaze back through the mists of time and see code written by an amateur almost 12 years ago, evolved into the little games you see before you here today!
