I am not going to lecture you about how you should pay for the games you play because your money enables the game makers to live and make other games. Everyone has heard the story already, I even had the chance to see it happen first-hand: a little game studio makes an original, refreshing and globally awesome game that people all over the world love, and then the studio dies and the developers become cashiers in the nearest supermarket because their game didn't sell at all - it was torrented.
I'm not blaming anyone here; I know that some people, myself included, wouldn't be able to afford to pay for all the games they currently play. I know that nowadays Internet makes everything accessible for free, and if anything, I'm blaming the system which is too old to be efficient and rewarding to the devloppers.
What I'm posting this for is to give you a little, humble link: http://www.wolfire.com/humble.
It will lead you to a bundle containing six little, humble games made by various little, humble independent game developers:
If you'd like to reward developers but can't buy a game that costs more than 30$, please check this. You decide what you give. The independent developers are probably the ones who deserve your support the most, and any donation helps. Even if you've played all the games already.
Now this already sounds like it's too generous to be true but there's actually more: a percentage of your donation will be given to charity. And in order to be coherent with the initial statement, the site also lets you decide that percentage. You can give everything the the developers, everything to charity, divide it equally or enter a custom percentage. There are few better ways to spend your money.
This offer expires in less than 24 hours.
To recap: you decide how much you give to game developers, you decide how much you give to charity associations, and in return you get 6 amazingly good games.
Feel free to discuss the opportunity or the indie games scene or the charity or whatever - after you've at least considered giving something that is.
I'm not blaming anyone here; I know that some people, myself included, wouldn't be able to afford to pay for all the games they currently play. I know that nowadays Internet makes everything accessible for free, and if anything, I'm blaming the system which is too old to be efficient and rewarding to the devloppers.
What I'm posting this for is to give you a little, humble link: http://www.wolfire.com/humble.
It will lead you to a bundle containing six little, humble games made by various little, humble independent game developers:
- World of Goo
- Aquaria
- Gish
- Lugaru HD
- Penumbra Overture
- Samorost 2
If you'd like to reward developers but can't buy a game that costs more than 30$, please check this. You decide what you give. The independent developers are probably the ones who deserve your support the most, and any donation helps. Even if you've played all the games already.
Now this already sounds like it's too generous to be true but there's actually more: a percentage of your donation will be given to charity. And in order to be coherent with the initial statement, the site also lets you decide that percentage. You can give everything the the developers, everything to charity, divide it equally or enter a custom percentage. There are few better ways to spend your money.
This offer expires in less than 24 hours.
To recap: you decide how much you give to game developers, you decide how much you give to charity associations, and in return you get 6 amazingly good games.
Feel free to discuss the opportunity or the indie games scene or the charity or whatever - after you've at least considered giving something that is.
