VIDEO: Tis the season to help the needy, like indie game designers

Matt Hawkins Contributing Writer, Video Games

It’s also the season to get games at a dirt-cheap prices, and The Humble Indie Bundle does both of that.

So here’s the deal: The Humble Indie Bundle for a while now has offered some of the best that the world of indie gaming has had to offer, under the “pay what you want” model. Not only is the selection quite superb (one of the “rules” is that everything has to be cross platform, meaning Mac folks are left in the cold, plus there’s no DRM, so there’s seriously no hassles involved), but everything can be acquired for just a penny!

Though you’d have to be a douche to go that low, and it’s always best to pay at least the average amount being spent by others (which is practically pennies for games that are dirt cheap to begin with, which is the norm for indie titles). Mostly because you often get bonus games on the side for being charitable. And never before has there been such a good reason. And the latest bundle is easily their best yet.

It includes Super Meat Boy, in which you’re a little slab of bloody beef, running around, trying not to get chopped up, in a frantic, puzzle platformer…

Shank also has platforms, and also has blood, but does it all quite differently…

Okay, how’s this for a premise: Jamestown old-school shooter that takes place on Mars, but is about the war that took place between England and Spain in the New World in 1619. Or something like that…

And Bit.Trip Runner, the most popular of the Bit.Trips, which is all about old school gaming goodness, meaning there’s plenty of chunky pixels, chiptunes, ad the kind of ultra precise jumps that will make you want to throw your controller against the floor for missing them for the 5,000th time. Which you will…

Again, if you pay more than the average amount being donated, which as of this writing is just $4.97, you also get the enhanced version of Cave Story, not just any indie produced old school platformer, but the one created by a single person in Japan that essentially got the current indie gaming boom going…

And Gratuitous Space Battles, which lives up to its name…

Again, all that for less than a fiver! Deals like this don’t come very often. Until the next Humble Indie Bundle, of course. On, and there’s also the Indie Royale. Sorta the same thing. Their current bundle includes Dine-D Day…

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