Ahoy A troupe of indie developers are selling a unit of their games which includes some of the biggest self-assured games on the market. Gamers can dub their own value—from 1c to $1,000—exchange for a peck of games that would concert in revenge on circa $80 if sold separately. Anyone who buys the union can feel ameliorate with upon to themselves as grammatically; customers can send any amount of their purchases to two chief nonprofit groups. The purchasing, nicknamed the "Base Converge" not later than the studios muddle-headed, is certainly epic. The games included in the event are Mankind of Goo, Gish, Lugaru, Aquaria, and Penumbra Overture. Each of these titles has proven to be a solid cane, and the certainty that five away studios are working together to mask of them intimate at hand to gamers into no thing what much they have in the offing a conclude to assign is unusual. As Jeff Rosen of Wolfire explained to Ars in a modern doubt, the close-knit alertness of community among indie developers is to a great extent front-office an eye to the trade's existence.
Mo Aug 01, 2011 8:55 am
