Not your usual indie bundle, this one, but worth a look anyway. Times are tough, if you haven’t already noticed, and a lot of us are struggling to make ends meet. While there have been some stunning success stories in the indie gaming scene lately, there’s just as many folks who are counting pennies, and freeware game developers might well be among those. Rather than go the usual donation box route, six freeware devs (plus two commercial ones) have pooled their marketing know-how together and decided to just do what everyone else is doing: Meet the Recession Bundle.
For your dollar (or more), you get that warm fuzzy feeling that comes from supporting six developers who have been giving away their games for free, plus a portion of your money goes to the SOS Children’s Village Croatia charity fund. Throwing any amount of money at the bundle also gives you two rather entertaining commercial indie games. The full freeware line-up is as follows:
- Mighty Jill Off by Auntie Pixelante
- Action Fist by Teknopants
- Vidiot Game by GZ Storm
- The Cat And The Coup by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad
- Dubloon by Banov
- Neverball by Robort Kooima & Others
And the two commercial games are:
- Star-Twine by Eric Billingsley
- 8-Bit Night by Retro Souls
This is actually a pretty solid bunch of games, and the commercial duo are good fun, too. Feel free to check out the Recession Bundle site and download all the freeware games gratis, and if you enjoy any of them, consider dropping a few dollars on the developers. Indie devs need food to code, y’know!
Source: The Indie Game Magazine – Times Are Tough – Spare A Buck For The ‘Recession Bundle’