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The Humble Botanicula Debut

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Unfortunately, it looks like Amanita debuted Botanicula here with several bonuses... and let customers preorder the game on other sites without any warning that there would be a bundle. The people behind GOG.com were given no warning that the game they were selling also be a Humble Bundle.

Amanita is now giving preorder customers Machinarium and an art book, but there was a kerfluffle for a bit there. It's somewhat unfortunate for the Humble folk.

Just got an email that GOG preorders are getting Machinarium, the soundtrack, art book, and a full copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut.

No complaints here.

This bundle has a higher average (almost double) than previous bundles. My gut tells me that this is related to the new rule that requires a minimum $5 payment to get the Steam keys. That's an interesting way for the humble folks to get people to pay more but now we're two steps removed from the "pay what you want" model; I wonder what compromise will be next.

It's still pay what you want to get DRM-free games. Only the steam keys have a minimum to prevent abuse. I don't see the problem here.

No problem at all. I applaud them for finding ways to help increase the amount paid while leaving it open as "pay what you want". Both changes have increased the amount paid without while leaving folks free to pay one cent if they really want.

I think this is because it's the debut release of a video game, not a bundle of already released titles.

Point and click adventures, it looks awesome, went and got it right away. Machinarium I've already known and enjoyed a lot.

One weird thing, though Botanicula seems to be made with Adobe Air - which is no longer supported on Linux (according to http://get.adobe.com/air/ checked from this current Ubuntu I'm using)... Bummer, got to see whether the unsupported Air versions work still.

[edit] Oh, they say it in the support docs where to get it from: http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/449...

[edit] Also, there's a WTF... from TotalBiscuit about the game: http://youtu.be/0PIz87oIKN0

Never thought I'd see TotalBiscuit's name on HN!

Machinarium is a great game.

I would like to point out, however, that because it is Flash it saves your game state in an LFO. The datastore it uses is the same as Firefox, so if you clear your LFO cookies out of FF you'll delete your Machinarium saved game data.

I've just started playing Windowsill and it's brilliant. Check this out : http://www.screenr.com/BEg8

[Edit] Or just try it for yourself here : http://windosill.com/online/

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