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Halloween has been in England since way before I was born and it's still just as popular now, always see kids out with their parents.

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For what it's worth, in southern Europe Halloween has only been around for a few years and it's mainly an excuse for grown-ups to party and wear slutty costumes. In spite of this, and being aware that I must've missed out on quite a few things, I've enjoyed the game a lot. :)

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: CheesenessI imagine that Costume Quest is probably less appealing to audiences who don't celebrate Halloween (I gave it a try last night, and I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of references).

So Halloween has not reached Australia yet? Because I know the Brits have basically adopted it now and I have heard it is making inroads into New Zealand. Although, I would still understand not grasping the full cultural lore behind it. Maybe it has just not reached Tasmania.

I'm not aware of it being A Thing anywhere in Australia (it certainly wasn't something that happened in Sydney when I was growing up)

The game itself is fun and cute, but I get the feeling that its target audience is people who fondly remember trick-or-treat... ing?

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Works fine in Ubuntu 13.04 :)
There's no way to play it in fullscreen yet? I am surprised it's very lively animations for a 2D game.

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Thanks for the post! We'll keep the builds coming :-)

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Quoting: SpeedsterStacking is very charming -- assuming I get around to the huge Brutal Legend download one of these days, I wish I had paid more for the bundle... but did have Psychonauts already and wasn't so sure about Costume Quest.

Well, if you really want to you can up how much you give after you have payed - just go to the page provided by your Humble key and play with the slider.

Quoting: CheesenessI'll agree that if the Frozenbyte bundle had happened today, it would have pulled much more attention that when it happened, but find it hard to believe that it would have been on par with the "Indie" bundles simply because there are people (with poor taste) out there who don't find FB's work appealing.

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Quoting: CheesenessI imagine that Costume Quest is probably less appealing to audiences who don't celebrate Halloween (I gave it a try last night, and I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of references).

So Halloween has not reached Australia yet? Because I know the Brits have basically adopted it now and I have heard it is making inroads into New Zealand. Although, I would still understand not grasping the full cultural lore behind it. Maybe it has just not reached Tasmania.

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You're doing good things liamdawe, you've more than earned respect from the Linux Gaming Community. I hope you keep up the fantastic job of pushing developers and users alike. May the Penguins be with you! =)

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Stacking is very charming -- assuming I get around to the huge Brutal Legend download one of these days, I wish I had paid more for the bundle... but did have Psychonauts already and wasn't so sure about Costume Quest.

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It seems a new update is here :
http://www.desura.com/games/jack-keane

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: CheesenessI think the notably high averages indicate that Humble's long time audiences and DF's hardcore fanbase are both at work, but some of the more opportunistic Humble contributors (who I speculate are the bulk that pull the averages down) are sitting this one out.

That is actually a very interesting point - the average purchase price does seem to be rather higher than for the mainstream Bundles with it currently being around $8.00.

The cross platform average across all bundles that I've tracked is $6.49. Excluding the eBook bundle. This is the highest Mac OS has ever been, Linux is 1c behind its highest average (first Humble Indie Bundle), and Windows is a bit under a dollar away from its highest (Botanicula Debut).

It's possible that the additional price tiers are pushing the average up, but significantly lower purchase numbers compared to say, the most recent Android bundle suggest to me that it's more that low payers sitting this one out (though I guess that could be interpreted that lower price payers aren't interested in the bundle for just Pnauts, Stacking and Costume Quest).

Quoting: HamishAnd it is true that things like the Frozenbyte bundle did not earn that much - but to be fair the Bundles were much younger then (personally the Frozenbyte one was my personal favourite, although I have unfortunately gotten a little wary of Frozenbyte themselves due to the fact that we have not seen a DRM free release of Goblin Menace yet, and they have not responded to any of my inquires on the subject, but that is a story for another thread).

I'll agree that if the Frozenbyte bundle had happened today, it would have pulled much more attention that when it happened, but find it hard to believe that it would have been on par with the "Indie" bundles simply because there are people (with poor taste) out there who don't find FB's work appealing.

Quoting: HamishWhen it comes to this one, Stacking is actually the one I am looking forward to playing the most - to get into Costume Quest you probably need to get over the whole "I am playing a kiddie game" aversion and the charm of Brutal Legend is probably lessened if you really do not have any particular interest in heavy metal music from almost thirty years ago, but since I received the Bundle as a birthday gift, I will definitely see what fun can be had with them.

I imagine that Costume Quest is probably less appealing to audiences who don't celebrate Halloween (I gave it a try last night, and I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of references). Similarly, as you say, Brutal Legend is less accessible to people who aren't into heavy metal music/culture. Psychonauts (featured in a previous bundle) and Stacking (also the game that I'm most looking forward to spending time with) seem to be the most generally approachable titles in the bundle at the moment.

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Looking at the Edge of Space page again, I realized it was one of the games that was being advertised by a Windows only banner back when they were popping up on my Linux Desura client, until Desura finally got their act together and fixed their banners. So the fact that it is now supposed to be coming to Linux somewhat amuses me.

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Looks like a bit like SWAT meets Frozen Synapse -- will definitely buy once Linux support is announced.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: dimkoLooks that I did right thing when I didn't sign up for this one. Ou well, some other company may want my money...

Why exactly?

I don't use bin distros. While i have no problem with non open source software that much, i do have issue with bin distributions, which expect fixed OS.

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The launcher has crashed less for me by unchecking the "enable uTP" box in the settings menu.  Still crashes but not as quickly! :P

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Quoting: Hamish

Quoting: CheesenessI think the notably high averages indicate that Humble's long time audiences and DF's hardcore fanbase are both at work, but some of the more opportunistic Humble contributors (who I speculate are the bulk that pull the averages down) are sitting this one out.

That is actually a very interesting point - the average purchase price does seem to be rather higher than for the mainstream Bundles with it currently being around $8.00.

This bundle, unlike others, has special offers, $35 for Broken Age and $70 for a exclusive T-shirt, that might have helped raise the price too.

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Also completely forgot they have the "Upcoming" section muntdefems which is why I didn't list them, such a poor layout for their home page. I seriously think this page should be their home page. They keep saying they are re-doing it but....when?

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My point was that Desura seems to be mostly being leveraged to get a game out in the wild to help improve it's chances of being Greenlighted. It is mostly being used as an initial marketing push, almost like a campaign event if one wishes to use a political analogy. My main concern with this is what would happen if some developers who do release their games on Desura and do get accepted on Steam then later forget about their Desura versions. At the moment this is just that, a concern, but it is something I could see happening.

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Quoting: CheesenessI think the notably high averages indicate that Humble's long time audiences and DF's hardcore fanbase are both at work, but some of the more opportunistic Humble contributors (who I speculate are the bulk that pull the averages down) are sitting this one out.

That is actually a very interesting point - the average purchase price does seem to be rather higher than for the mainstream Bundles with it currently being around $8.00.

And it is true that things like the Frozenbyte bundle did not earn that much - but to be fair the Bundles were much younger then (personally the Frozenbyte one was my personal favourite, although I have unfortunately gotten a little wary of Frozenbyte themselves due to the fact that we have not seen a DRM free release of Goblin Menace yet, and they have not responded to any of my inquires on the subject, but that is a story for another thread).

When it comes to how much the game's appeal, I must admit that I have mostly played only one or two titles from a Bundle and then never got around to the others. I have only played one game out of HIB3 for any length of time (Steel Storm) and only very briefly dabbled with two of the games from HIB2 (and one of them I did only because I had won the game previously from a contest). The Introversion Bundle I was generously gifted gave me hours upon hours of entertainment, but that was just me playing Dungeons of Dredmor. HIB5 and HIB6 actually have better track records for me, with me having spent a great deal of time with at least two games from each.

When it comes to this one, Stacking is actually the one I am looking forward to playing the most - to get into Costume Quest you probably need to get over the whole "I am playing a kiddie game" aversion and the charm of Brutal Legend is probably lessened if you really do not have any particular interest in heavy metal music from almost thirty years ago, but since I received the Bundle as a birthday gift, I will definitely see what fun can be had with them.

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Well yeah Desura is small enough to probably want as many developers on board as possible so I bet the entry is a lot easier than Steam so of course they will flock to it if they can.

Although some developers won't want to spread their game across several websites as it may lose them income as they would need to hit the threshold for a pay-out which with sites like Desura they might not hit since it's not as popular as Steam. Then again it depends how popular the game is.

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I agree that the main reason might be that this bundle doesn't have a game for almost everyone like other bundles, and I guess that gamers being eager for this special kind of games wouldn't wait to buy them in a bundle. Also, psychonauts was already in a previous bundle and I guess almost everyone interested already owned it, that makes it a 3 games bundle plus a crowdfunding.

I like these games and most are debuting on GNU/Linux, so this bundle is great for me.

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Speaking personally for me I haven't purchased this one, mainly because I am not interested in the games to sit down and play myself. I think that will be one of the big reasons is that their games have a particular audience as opposed to a HIB.

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I think there are a whole bunch of factors at play. I've heard a lot of murmurings about outstanding bugs in Psychonauts and The Cave making Linux users wary of getting emotionally invested in Double Fine. The pitch video is certainly bound to make anybody not familiar with Tim/Double Fine's character and sense of humour scratch their head in bewilderment. The Windows only bonus titles don't seem to have given this bundle the kick that previous ones have had from cross platform bonus titles.

I think the biggest factor is that this isn't a Humble Indie Bundle. It's a series of games from a single developer - one which may well have an acquired taste (I'm a big fan of Tim, but I can recognise that some of his work and the work he's fostered in Double Fine is a little too zany for the casual observer). The more diverse bundles have the ability to draw in a much more diverse audience than these focused ones. I'd be comparing it more to the Frozenbyte Bundle, the Voxatron Debut or the THQ Bundle than the "Indie" (or even the Android bundles).

That said, between their Kickstarter campaign and longtime fans, DF have a pretty impressive following and I would have thought that their supporters would have been able to garner much greater attention for this bundle (I was expecting it to be closer to $2m by now, and my initial expectations were that we'd get 35k+ Linux purchasers).

So, yeah. I can see a few aspects that would probably be offputting, but I'm still scratching my head as well. I think the notably high averages indicate that Humble's long time audiences and DF's hardcore fanbase are both at work, but some of the more opportunistic Humble contributors (who I speculate are the bulk that pull the averages down) are sitting this one out.

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Am I the only noticing how poorly this Bundle has done financially in comparison to most of the the other Bundles? Only within the past few days did it cross the million dollar mark, which is hardly bad but hardly impressive considering Humble Bundles past records. This is more on par with Humble Indie Bundle 1 than anything else.

Could this be a sign of Bundle fatigue? I mean, I grant these games may be a little niche to some people, but they are certainly a lot more well known than many other Bundle titles, and this is first time that they have offered a swath of games from someone who could be called a legitimate video game auteur.

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Looking at some of these and other games, Desura seems to be being used as a staging area to help get some attention and hype for a game before getting it submitted to Steam Greenlight, which if a little demeaning to the service does at least give Desura a little bit of an edge and does give non-Steam gamers the opportunity to try some of these games. I was a little worried that with Greenlight developers might just bypass more inclusive services such as Desura altogether, so all in all I am happy with this result.

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For those who get the libtorrent-rasterbar7 error. Here is a link http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/libtorrent-rasterbar7 . Oh and you may need libc6 (>= 2.17). This is of course from a guy running 64bit Linux Mint 14.

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Thanks for informing about this game. Downloading it atm ^_^

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Good job! ;)


Also don't forget the games that are coming to Desura for sure in a few days: Dominions: Priests, Prophets & Pretenders, Dominions II: The Ascension Wars and Perfection. (the last one will be available in just a few hours).


Plus there's this one, which is not coming to Desura but it's coming for Linux nonetheless: Rogue Legacy. It looks GREEEEEAAAAAAAT!!! Please somebody write an article about it!!!

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Great to see Desura get more love. As a non-steam user this is essential.

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Quoting: MaokeiLots of complaints here even though its a beta.

The complaints come out of the fact it went through a Closed Beta to come out like this, as stated before as well these bugs where already submitted to them and not fixed.

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Lots of complaints here even though its a beta.

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