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Humble FrozenByte Bundle

Posted by John Almirante on Monday, April 25, 2011
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The Humble FrozenByte Bundle offer is winding down.  The Humble Bundle is a pay-what-you-want sale of several games for a limited-time, with part of the proceeds going to charity.  This is the 3rd Humble Bundle. 

The 1st Humble Indie Bundle, offered in May of 2010, included games from 6 independent game developers and brought in $1.2 million.  I paid $7.60 for the 6 games.  The 2nd Humble Indie Bundle was in December of 2010, had games from 5 independent game developers and generated $1.8 million.  I paid $8.88 for the 5 games.

The 3rd bundle, will eventually have 5 games from just one independent game developer, FrozenByte.  Right now, only three full games are available, with another one to be released in the near future, and the other one, an incomplete game that will be completed with the help of volunteers.

I felt that I could only pay $5.08 for the 5 games.  Even using 3DAnalyze, Trine is not playable on a netbook or my Intel Atom desktop, and Shadowgrounds: Survivor is just too slow for these machines.  Shadowgrounds works well using 3DAnalyze.  I can't determine how well Splot will work on my low-end computers and Jack Claw is not a finished product.

I figure that since Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor have been on sale for $2.50, I can pay $2.08 for Shadowgrounds.  Since Shadowgrounds: Survivor has performance issues, I felt I could only pay $1.28 for Shadowgrounds: Survivor.  Since Trine was essentially unplayable on my main PC, I was only willing to pay $0.84 for it.  For Splot, an unreleased and unknown game, I could only shell out $0.88.  For Jack Claw, I didn't want to pay anything for an unfinished game.  The sum total of all this comes to $5.08.

Since the price was low, and it seems to me that more people are giving to charity than to FrozenByte, I opted to give more to the developer and less to charity.  Also, I felt I had given enough to charity in the previous Humble Bundles.  Of the $5.08 I paid, I gave $4.04 to FrozenByte, $0.88 to HumbleBundle Inc., and $0.08 to each of the charities.

For $5.08, I got 5 games with a total package size of over 3 GB.  Not bad.
 
 

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