Do you like donating to charity? Do you like playing video games? If your answer is yes, then you should give indie games a try. If hardcore shooters aren’t your thing, try some puzzle games or platformers (think: old school Mario) or just something not developed or created by a huge corporation.
I could go on and on about how epic independent developers are and how much fun the games are (Minecraft anyone?), but I won’t. Instead, I’ll tell you about this wonderful opportunity to help out two charities: Child’s Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation… as well as the developers who create games.
Inspired by Steam bundles and sales, Jeff Rosen of Wolfire Games created the concept of bundling independent video games and allow customers to pay their own price. Usually the bundles come with about five games, where there’s at least one super popular one. All of the bundles contain high quality indie games which are worth more than $20. However, the Humble Indie Bundle gives people the opportunity to pay whatever they’d like for the games. Some people cheap out and buy it for less than a dollar, but some donate thousands and most of the bundles have raised over $500,000!
This time around, a new Humble Bundle is released called “The Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle”, which contains Frozen Synapse, a tactical turn-based strategy game worth $25. If you pay more than the average price ($4.45 at the moment), then you can get “The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle” as well, which contains Trine (a physics-based action game), Shadowgrounds: Survivor and Shadowgrounds (a third-person shooter with an interesting story). As a bonus, you will get Splot, a cute platformer that’s still under development and Jack Claw, a prototype of a game Frozenbyte was developed, but canceled before completion. Don’t those sound like amazing games? And all for a price you name yourself, you can get all of them!
So what are you waiting for? You have approximately 14 days left to purchase this wonderful bundle, and help out others as well! For more information about how much the Bundle has donated, please visit this awesome Wikipedia page!