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Humble Indie...Store?

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So the web has been abuzz with news of Humble Bundle doing a Humble Indie Store.

If i may direct you to a few-ish links;
http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/vvvvvv
http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/trine
http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/steelstorm
http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/aquaria
http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/osmos
http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/chocolatecastle
http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/dungeonsofdredmor
http://www.wolfire.com/overgrowth - click preorder
http://trine2.com/site/index.php?page=buy - look down
http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php - I even saw that one before, I didn't put it all together!

Basically put http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/<namehere> from any bundle and good chance the game will be available to buy.

Or try this in google "site:http://www.humblebundle.com/store/" and be surprised.

You can see there that you can buy the single games directly, yes even steel storm is up there (Alex aka motostep isn't very fond of the HIB guys anymore after his inclusion in one of the bundles..maybe this will cheer him up a bit?).

While apparently Humble has always provided a widget for selling games when you buy a game it all changes now to Humble Store according to IndieGameMag who tested it by buying a game. They contacted Jeff from Humble and got this response;
QuoteThe Humble Store is something we are working on


Also if I can direct your attention to these two links;
http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/trine2-collectors
Looks like Trine 2 is gearing up for release soon!

http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/englishcountrytune
This little number called English Country Tune currently only says Windows and Mac, is that the way it's going to be from now on, cross platform meaning more than 1 and not all 3 of us? Haven't seen this one before either so here's a trailer;
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And Splot doesn't say it's a beta so hopefully that is also gearing up for a release!
http://www.humblebundle.com/store/product/splot

Over time it will be opened up to more and more developers it seems they are giving it a slow roll out, chances are we will see the Humble Store this year though.

While it may look like it's new news, one of our members actually predicted this will happen! This was in the chatbox/shoutbox/thing.
QuoteDec 20, 2011 - KIAaze:
2012: bundle of all previous bundles with minimum price? Humble shop? Humble steam/desura-like client?

Well done KIAaze you time travelling monkey!

So what does everyone think to this? Do you think it has the capability to put Desura and Gameolith out of business? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Liam Dawe Jan 11, 2012
First of all welcome to GOL Jeff.

Thank you for clarifying what's happening I'm sure Alex will be pleased.
whizse Jan 11, 2012
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Looks like English Country Tune uses Unity3D:
http://www.increpare.com/2011/11/english-country-tune/#comment-6104
motorsep Jan 11, 2012
I'd like to see if Unity3D games in deployed to Flash will play on Linux in the browser well...
Cheeseness Jan 12, 2012
Quoting: "liamdawe, post: 3083, member: 1"What makes you think it won't be healthy for Linux Gaming? I still prefer [URL='http://www.desura.com']Desura[/URL] and [URL='http://www.gameolith.com']Gameolith[/URL] since I don't have a separate email for every game I have, i have a single login that displays all.


You asked if there was a possibility for this to put Desura and Gamolith out of business. If they died, I think that would be ultimately be a negative thing.

I can't recall if it was a tweet or a comment on the Wolfire blog, but I believe there was mention of a combined download page being worked on.

Quoting: "Jeffrey Rosen, post: 3089"Hey there, some of those stores are intended to be private -- they were automatically created for all games in the Humble Bundle so that we could approach various developers to show them a Humble Store widget.


In case you're not aware, Google has indexed a number of Humble Store URLs. A search for site:http://humblebundle.com/store will reveal them (I believe that's how word got out - it's how I found them at least). Good luck with the project. It will be interesting to see which aspects of the Humble Bundle promotions carry across (charity support, Linux, MacOS and Windows support, etc.).
Liam Dawe Jan 12, 2012
Quoting: "Cheeseness, post: 3095, member: 122"You asked if there was a possibility for this to put Desura and Gamolith out of business. If they died, I think that would be ultimately be a negative thing.


Ah didnt know what you where replying to yes that would be very bad, i doubt it will though Desura i think will still be king. Since they have moddb and indiedb they are already a big name.
Nerv Jan 12, 2012
Quoting: "Jeffrey Rosen, post: 3090"This is not true at all. We have had support for OnLive, Direct2Drive, Desura, Steam, and maybe another service I am forgetting.

True, but support for all of those except Steam has been declining from bundle to bundle. At least for Desura we know its not for lack of them wanting to be a part of it...
Bestia Jan 12, 2012
Quoting: motorsepI'd like to see if Unity3D games in deployed to Flash will play on Linux in the browser well...


You can already see it with one of the official Unity3D demos AngryBots:
[URL='http://dreamflashstudio.com/my_lab/unity3dFlashDemo']Flash version[/URL]
[URL='https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ibdomdppnicebcgjhcjfchbonebbjkhb']Native Client (NaCl)[/URL]
motorsep Jan 12, 2012
Well, Flash Unity on Linux is junk :(

Tomes of Mephistopheles development version has 2048^2 uncompressed world textures (diffuse, gloss, normal map, offset map and glow map) and high polygonal assets. It loads twice faster than that demo. And then ToM runs in HD with deferred lighting and real-time lights smoothly vs how Angry Bots run in the browser - like a slide show.

So far, Darkplaces vs Unity on Linux as 1:0

P.S. I am on Ubuntu 11.10 with latest FF browser
Bestia Jan 12, 2012
The Native Client version of that demo runs much better than the flash crap.
motorsep Jan 12, 2012
Native client is limited to Chrome. Also, I am seeing right now that the game is downloaded, not streamed. So I really don't see where is the advantage of games running in the browsers :(
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