Lugaru HD now on the Mac App Store
January 20th, 2011
As of today, Lugaru HD is available on the Mac App Store. While we hope that fans who want to support us will continue to buy Lugaru directly from our site, we're also very excited to get some extra exposure on Apple's new platform. Lugaru HD now on the Mac App Store With the Mac App Store and ...
Download the Humble Indie Bundle #2 using BitTorrent
December 24th, 2010
When Jeff asked pirates why they pirated the bundle (instead of buying it for one penny), some responded that they just prefer to use BitTorrent. It reduces bandwidth costs, increases download speeds, reduces file corruption, and makes it easy to pause and resume downloads. With that in mind, Jeff added an official BitTorrent download method inside of the Humble Indie ...
Revenge of the Titan's will release its source code at 1.75M!
December 23rd, 2010
Puppy Games just told us that they will release the source code for Revenge of the Titans if the Humble Indie Bundle reaches $1.75 million! We're already well past $1.5 million with two days to go, so this should be within reach. This announcement is special because Revenge of the Titans is a brand-new game, released mere ...
Jeff Vogel on the Humble Bundle
October 24th, 2010
Jeff Vogel, the game developer behind Spiderweb Software (Exile, Geneforge, Avernum) wrote a really interesting piece on the economics of the Humble Indie Bundle and what it means to other game developers. Click to check it out There are a lot of good insights in there. What do you guys think? Could a Humble Bundle style "honor system" be a ...
Open-source software is not always freeware
May 16th, 2010
I read a comment from a Humble Bundle purchaser who was confused when we made the open-source announcement, saying he hadn't known that the games were about to become freeware. However, the games are not freeware, they are still for sale at their usual price. Open-source software and freeware are not the same thing! Here is a Venn diagram ...
Zero-day open source contributions
May 12th, 2010
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The state of Mac and Linux gaming
May 8th, 2010
It's 'common knowledge' that Mac and Linux gaming are so unimportant that they might as well not exist. Everyone 'knows' that Mac games sell a tiny fraction of the amount that Windows games sell, and that Linux games simply don't exist. But are these ideas based on reality? Where did these figures come from? Anyone who has ever ...