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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 4 May 2010 18:38
On Tue, 4 May 2010 23:28:17 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com>
wrote:

>On 2010-05-04 22:13:45 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
><jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:
>
>> http://www.wolfire.com/humble
>>
>> The selection of games is excellent:
>> World of Goo
>> Aquaria
>> Gish
>> Lugaru
>> Penumbra
>>
>> Recipients are pretty good too:
>> The game developers
>> Childs Play (charity of the Penny Arcade folks)
>> The EFF
>>
>> Shame you can't split the payment for the devs, since I've already
>> bought three of these!
>
>Could someone give me some idea as to what these games are actually
>about? Would my partner go for them?

World of Goo is a construction type game where you build dynamic
towers out of somewhat rigid blobs of goo. 4/5

Aquaria is an exploration-based underwater fantasy game with an
interesting backstory and boss fights. 4/5

Gish is a platformer of sorts, where your character is a blob of tar
and you get from one end of a puzzly level to the other using your
sticky/slidy/jumpy qualities. 4/5

Lugaru appears to be an odd combat-RPGish thing starring
anthropomorphic bunnies. I've only played the tutorial, but I wasn't
impressed.

Penumbra I don't know yet, still downloading.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
Anyone who has had a bull by the tail knows five or six
more things than someone who hasn't. -- Mark Twain
From: James Jolley on 4 May 2010 18:45
On 2010-05-04 23:38:54 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:

> On Tue, 4 May 2010 23:28:17 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-05-04 22:13:45 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
>> <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:
>>
>>> http://www.wolfire.com/humble
>>>
>>> The selection of games is excellent:
>>> World of Goo
>>> Aquaria
>>> Gish
>>> Lugaru
>>> Penumbra
>>>
>>> Recipients are pretty good too:
>>> The game developers
>>> Childs Play (charity of the Penny Arcade folks)
>>> The EFF
>>>
>>> Shame you can't split the payment for the devs, since I've already
>>> bought three of these!
>>
>> Could someone give me some idea as to what these games are actually
>> about? Would my partner go for them?
>
> World of Goo is a construction type game where you build dynamic
> towers out of somewhat rigid blobs of goo. 4/5
>
> Aquaria is an exploration-based underwater fantasy game with an
> interesting backstory and boss fights. 4/5
>
> Gish is a platformer of sorts, where your character is a blob of tar
> and you get from one end of a puzzly level to the other using your
> sticky/slidy/jumpy qualities. 4/5
>
> Lugaru appears to be an odd combat-RPGish thing starring
> anthropomorphic bunnies. I've only played the tutorial, but I wasn't
> impressed.
>
> Penumbra I don't know yet, still downloading.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie

Sounds certainly varied enough for me. Will certainly go and buy them now.

From: chris on 5 May 2010 07:24
On Tue, 04 May 2010 23:05:28 +0100, D.M. Procida
<real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

> Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>
>> http://www.wolfire.com/humble
>>
>> The selection of games is excellent:
>> World of Goo
>> Aquaria
>> Gish
>> Lugaru
>> Penumbra
>
> "Pay what you want. If you bought these five games separately, it would
> cost around $80 but we're letting you set the price!"
>
> "Average contribution: $7.79"
>
> Poor bastards.

Kinda. They have raised over $200k.

It doesn't say how long the promo has been going for, but they could
easily be earning more during this period than during an equivalent
non-promo period.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 5 May 2010 07:37
On Tue, 4 May 2010 23:45:02 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com>
wrote:

>On 2010-05-04 23:38:54 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
><jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:
>
>> On Tue, 4 May 2010 23:28:17 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Could someone give me some idea as to what these games are actually
>>> about? Would my partner go for them?
>>
>> World of Goo is a construction type game where you build dynamic
>> towers out of somewhat rigid blobs of goo. 4/5
>>
>> Aquaria is an exploration-based underwater fantasy game with an
>> interesting backstory and boss fights. 4/5
>>
>> Gish is a platformer of sorts, where your character is a blob of tar
>> and you get from one end of a puzzly level to the other using your
>> sticky/slidy/jumpy qualities. 4/5
>>
>> Lugaru appears to be an odd combat-RPGish thing starring
>> anthropomorphic bunnies. I've only played the tutorial, but I wasn't
>> impressed.
>>
>> Penumbra I don't know yet, still downloading.
>
>Sounds certainly varied enough for me. Will certainly go and buy them now.

Penumbra is a rather ace first-person horror game, I'm liking it a
lot. Allow an extra $5 for picking up the sequal and expansion pack
from frictionalgames.com.

Play hints: don't jump in the crate with the three rocks, you can't
get out again! Also, the "artifacts" are save points - this isn't made
clear in the game, only when you give up and reload due to getting
stuck in a box!

Cheers - JAimie
--
Thank you for your input. Now, if you have something substantive to
bring to the discussion, kindly do. Otherwise, isn't there an
eternal flamefest that would peter out if you won't keep feeding it?
-- Cosmin Corbea, r.a.b
From: James Jolley on 5 May 2010 07:39
On 2010-05-05 12:37:45 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:

> On Tue, 4 May 2010 23:45:02 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-05-04 23:38:54 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
>> <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> said:
>>
>>> On Tue, 4 May 2010 23:28:17 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Could someone give me some idea as to what these games are actually
>>>> about? Would my partner go for them?
>>>
>>> World of Goo is a construction type game where you build dynamic
>>> towers out of somewhat rigid blobs of goo. 4/5
>>>
>>> Aquaria is an exploration-based underwater fantasy game with an
>>> interesting backstory and boss fights. 4/5
>>>
>>> Gish is a platformer of sorts, where your character is a blob of tar
>>> and you get from one end of a puzzly level to the other using your
>>> sticky/slidy/jumpy qualities. 4/5
>>>
>>> Lugaru appears to be an odd combat-RPGish thing starring
>>> anthropomorphic bunnies. I've only played the tutorial, but I wasn't
>>> impressed.
>>>
>>> Penumbra I don't know yet, still downloading.
>>
>> Sounds certainly varied enough for me. Will certainly go and buy them now.
>
> Penumbra is a rather ace first-person horror game, I'm liking it a
> lot. Allow an extra $5 for picking up the sequal and expansion pack
> from frictionalgames.com.
>
> Play hints: don't jump in the crate with the three rocks, you can't
> get out again! Also, the "artifacts" are save points - this isn't made
> clear in the game, only when you give up and reload due to getting
> stuck in a box!
>
> Cheers - JAimie

Thanks for the hints, it's the sort of thing she'd be confused by.

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