The newest Humble Bundle is live and this time around features quite a few Linux débuts. Currently there's a total of 8 games in the bundle with more to come.
Making their Linux debut are:
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
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Risk of Rain
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Tower of Guns
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Paying above the average price grants purchasers access to more games and their soundtracks. As with all other bundles, more games will be added in about a week's time, so there's always more to look forward to!
In more good news, we've reached the 100 port milestone through the Humble Bundle's in-house ports, something which they've made a point of talking about and celebrating in their blog.
Humble BlogOh by the way, over the lifetime of Humble Bundle our Linux users pay $1 more than the average Mac user and $2.60 more than the average Windows user. Now that is something to humble brag about.
The main bundles always include games that are cross-platform and DRM-free and so they've gotten plenty of experience in porting over indie games for us to enjoy. As they mention, it is often difficult for small developers to bring over games to other platforms and so the higher-than-average donations by Linux users have ensured that the ports have been worth their time and effort. In short, it's a win-win situation for everyone involved.
But what a bundle! One of the best. I'm impressed.
But again, I should really save that bit of whining for my next article...
I am just glad that they are recognising that yes, Linux users will pay for games.Also showing the difference rather than the average, helped make me pay a little bit extra than normal (only takes dollar average to get a 100% boost vs Mac).
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You can receive Teleglitch for free right now!
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I wonder why these give-aways are not being made in Steam, even Receiver was offered as a Steam code only.
EDIT: I mean, why is Humble distributing Steam codes only for games available as DRM-Free in the Humble Store?
muntdefems Oct 30, 2014
I didn't have any problem with Tower of Guns. If I had to point something out though, I'd say its somewhat low feedback when you're hurt. Several times I found myself with very low health without being aware I had been hit so much (especially in boss battles). But this is probably the game's fault, and not the Linux port's.
I've tried all the games in the bundle except for Amnesia: AMFP and almost all of them seemed to work fine
Well, I can of course say that technically AMFP runs well thanks to the great work of Frictional Games and Edward Rudd. No problems there.
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