Four Indie Games Going Open-Source!

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67364

    Four Indie Games Going Open-Source!

    Phoronix: Four Indie Games Going Open-Source!

    This month there's been the Humble Indie bundle whereby anyone can purchase this game bundle consisting of World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru, and Penumbra Overture for any price they want. Part of the proceeds would be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play Charity. With the success of this bundle, they then decided if they generate more than a million dollars in revenues they would open-source the games. Well, they have achieved this milestone!..

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  • Draconx
    Junior Member
    • Nov 2009
    • 8

    #2
    Best news I heard all day. Gish is one of my favourite platformers!

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    • whizse
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2008
      • 979

      #3
      This has been a pretty sweet month for for free gaming

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      • Hans
        Senior Member
        • Apr 2010
        • 140

        #4
        I really hope developers see there really is a marked for Linux and openness.

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        • BlackStar
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2007
          • 2103

          #5
          How awesome is that?!

          I'm dying to get my grubby, greedy hands on the Aquaria source code!

          Now all we need is for Ubuntu 10.10 to include one of those games in the default installation.

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          • tormod
            Ubuntu X.Org
            • May 2008
            • 341

            #6
            That's awesome! I was not at all sure that it would happen when looking at the stats last night... Some serious "bidding" in the last hours I reckon.

            No credits to Phoronix here, which only wrote about it after the 1M$ deadline...

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            • Timmmm
              Junior Member
              • Jun 2009
              • 10

              #7
              I really think that is a great long-term business model:

              "As soon as we've taken ?X in sales we will open source the game."

              I think a lot of people would buy the game if there was a decent chance it would be open sourced later.

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              • PsynoKhi0
                Senior Member
                • Feb 2010
                • 531

                #8
                Originally posted by Hans View Post
                I really hope developers see there really is a marked for Linux and openness.
                The contribution break-down is pretty interesting: there were slightly more than twice as many windows contributors as Linux ones, but the average amount was near half for the former.
                Wish they could put some more detailed statistics.

                In any case, awesome initiatives, both the bundle and the open-sourcing

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                • PsynoKhi0
                  Senior Member
                  • Feb 2010
                  • 531

                  #9
                  Originally posted by BlackStar View Post
                  Now all we need is for Ubuntu 10.10 to include one of those games in the default installation.
                  Not sure what you mean there...

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                  • SkyHiRider
                    Phoronix Member
                    • Jan 2010
                    • 52

                    #10
                    He probably means that they could change the default usually mostly crappy games for these. Question is whether the code is open sourced but the brand stays closed or all is free.

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