Two Fedoras

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.