Well on it's way to raising 5 million dollars, the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality over on itch.io has become a huge success and there's a lot that's been added to it.
Still keeping the minimum purchase at $5, it's absolutely the deal of the year and you're probably not likely to find another deal like it for a very long time. It's ridiculously good and for a honourable cause. There's now, at time of writing 1,509 items included which would usually cost over 8 thousand dollars individually.
Plenty of what's included is available for Linux too, it's incredible. Here's just a few of the latest interesting additions included after it began (some we mentioned elsewhere):
- Celeste
- Hidden Folks
- Hive Time
- JUMPGRID
- Lenna's Inception
- MewnBase
- Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy!
- Odd Realm
- PICO-8
- Sky Rogue
- Steam Marines 2
- The Away Team
- They Bleed Pixels
- Underhero
That's only a small slice of what's been newly included too, a few that jumped out at me. All newly included titles now and in future are automatically added to previous purchases. It's a lot to get through and thankfully they have now added a search bar to the redeem page so you can easily pick out what you want after you grab it.
Each game needs to be added individually from your bundle purchase, so it doesn't overwhelm your library. To help with that, itch do have an open source client. I regularly use it, handy for managing itch games and keeping them nicely up to date.
Be sure to share your personal highlights in the comments and the creators would all probably appreciate a review somewhere if you enjoyed their game. It's crazy to try and go over it all.
See the full bundle here.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Night in the Woods and Celeste were at the top of my wishlist for some time, but there are so many great games in this bundle I'm looking forward to playing, like Oxenfree, A Short Hike, Wide Ocean Big Jacket, Quadrilateral Cowboy and more.
I had some of these titles for Windows already, but this bundle certainly makes my transition to Linux a lot smoother!
Plus, the money goes to a good cause!
Last edited by Gooda on 11 June 2020 at 5:00 pm UTC
Also they have added a TON of high profile indie titles that are on steam since the initial 700. Warden melody of the undergrowth, Oxenfree, Headliner, Secrets of Raetikon, Heavy bullets, Crest, Headliner, Another Lost Phone, Lingtopia, Silicon Zeroes, and that's just SOME of the games NOT mentioned in the article or in the other article.
Seriously, bar none, this is the best game deal I have ever gotten and that was having given 20 dollars instead of the minimum 5.
Last edited by natis1 on 11 June 2020 at 6:13 pm UTC
Right, since there is a client, I've bought the bundle and decided to give it a go. Among 1700 indie games there is bound to be be some that click with me. It can't possibly be a bad deal and it's for a good cause. Apparently, I'm not the only one thinking so, as client can't install due to pressure of all the people rushing in.
Also, to adjust your expectations, keep in mind that since the client is completely optional, and developers are free to package their games the way they want, the client won't always be able to launch a game. It uses some fancy heuristics to try to figure things out though, and does an amazing job of it most of the time, but sometimes it's necessary to manually add an app manifest to the game directory to let the client know what to do with a game:
https://itch.io/docs/itch/integrating/manifest.html
Of course, the best thing is to also let the developer know in these cases, so they can fix it.
TobyHaynes Jun 11, 2020
brokeassben Jun 11, 2020
That is a good idea... Turns out all I had to do was click "Forgot Password" and I was able to sign in and redo my multi-factor authentication.I had multi-factor authentication enabled on my account, wiped the phone with the authenticator on it, and can't find my backup codes. So my itch.io account is now lost forever :(I imagine if you email them, with some kind of proof, they would be quite reasonable about it. You must have some emails somewhere from itch you can dig up to prove ownership.
As for finding out the last added, someone compiled a Google Spreadsheet (current reddit thread here and original now buried comment here.
Tips:
- You can sort by type: physical game (tabletop), soundtrack, asset. No category means a digital game...
- To check last added sort / filter by batch. Current one is 4 (Celeste, etc.)
- To find the good stuff it might also help to sort by both rating (5 is good) and ratings count (more is popular). Overly bundled stuff might have a low count as people have it on other platforms.
Personal highlight for me would be the Dragonruby game tool kit. ($50, though the devs have also been generous with providing free copies)
Just when I thought this bundle couldn't get any better!
Last edited by Gooda on 12 June 2020 at 5:27 pm UTC
What was interesting is that they wrote on their new page:
DISCLAMER
The DRM-free version of Gang Beasts DOES NOT SUPPORT ONLINE GAMEPLAY, online game modes for Windows, macOS, and Linux are only supported in the Steam, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Rift S versions of the game as the online servers for Gang Beasts use Steam and Oculus APIs for authentication.
But I don't see such a disclaimer on the Humble Bundle store where they're also listed as DRM free...
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