NYOP – this is pretty awesome
December 21, 2010 – 10:00 amI heard about this a couple of days ago, and find it incredibly awesome …
The Humble Indie Bundle #2, where five independent game developers allow you to purchase 5 cool games at a price of your choice (NYOP = Name Your Own Price), and you also decide who gets your money. The developers, Humble Bundle who takes care of the technical tidbits, or one or both of 2 charities (Electronic Frontier Foundation and Childs Play charity). The games are multiplatform and work on Windows, MacOS X and Linux alike. You also get access to the games through Steam and Desura.
So far, they’ve sold over 170’000 bundles at a total of over $1,2 million. When you visit the site, check out the platform-graph. You know how people used to say “Linux? That’s for cheap-skates who wants stuff for free!”? You’ll notice that the average linux user paid about twice as much as the average Windows user.
The Humble Indie Bundle #2 is available here. Not only do you get 5 cool games (yes, I purchased too) but a chance to study an incredibly cool launch… By studying blog and twitter-promotions on this launch from the last couple of days you might pick up a trick or two. Cool games and a cool launch study 
