Playdead Games has unleashed upon us a new teaser trailer that teases you teasefully. Made up words aside, wouldn’t it be hilarious if the game never came out and just kept us waiting in perpetuity?
LIMBO Teaser Trailer Teases
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Plants vs. Zombies Crochet Keeps Zombies at Bay
Sprite Stitch is once again digging up the baddest of bad ass videogame themed crochet. This little guy is, as the title suggests, from the game Plants vs. Zombies. This is actually a rather timely posting since I’ve been playing through this very game over the course of the last couple of days. I haven’t completely lost track of time while playing a game in a good while, but hours just melt off the clock with PvZ. If you haven’t played the game yet you really should, and if you don’t crochet, I guess you should do that too.
Well that’s enough rambling for a post. Thanks again to Sprite Stitch and “Crafty Carla” for this topical piece of corchet goodness.
Update: Check out more shots over at Crafty Carla’s blog and tune in to see her future crochet renditions of the Sunflower, Potato Mine, and lord only knows what else.
Humble Indie Bundle Decidedly Successful
The best bundle in the history of history has finally come to a close. If you managed to miss out on the opportunity to pick up these five(and then six) games, well you’re the proverbial rotten egg. When this had all started I had anticipated sales in the neighborhood of $500,000, but when the the timer ran out it was sitting on a pile of cash that dwarfed that estimate. In actuality the bundle had grossed $1.14 Million dollars with $352,334 of it going to the EFF and Child’s Play.
Talk about giving! I guess it’s not enough to put your games up for a “name your own price” package for these guys, they had to go and give a little more. So what did they do? They decided to make their games open source. Details:
Humble update: open source extension (5/11/10)
The Humble Indie Bundle experiment has been a massive success beyond our craziest expectations. So far, in just over 7 days, 124,447 generous contributors have put down an incredible $1,139,087. Of this, contributors chose to allocate 30.93% to charity: $352,334 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child’s Play Charity. I have made a page for the full breakdown including credit card fees in a JSON formathere (json).
Now it’s our turn to give back. As of 5/11/10, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture pledge to go open source. We are preparing the sources right now and will be releasing them ASAP. We spent last night preparing Lugaru and it is available now. The code is still a little rough (no Visual Studio project yet, for instance) but hopefully with the help of the community we can rapidly make it more accessible to everyone.
Note, the games will be “free as in ‘free speech’, not as in ‘free beer’”: see each license for the full, finalized details as they come out very hopefully this week — stay tuned. It is the underlying code that will be made available to everyone.
Feel free to continue donating to charity, to the developers, or any combination thereof below. We will still be distributing humble bundles to anyone who contributes.