Yes, indie game bundles are now becoming two a penny and a regular occurrence but they're still a great way to get some games for hardly any money. The Be Mine Game & Music bundle is a pay-what-you-want deal where for as little as $1 you can get six games.
On offer are The Ball, Xotic, Beep, Wasteland Angel, and Sideways: New York along with the Be Mine Special music EP. Now that the bundle has raised over its first target of $3,000, you'll also get all three DLC packs for Xotic and the PC adventure game Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals.
If the bundle reaches $50,000 (which is only $4,000) away, then there will be a bunch of extra music albums added including the soundtracks for The Ball and Bleep. Oh, and 20% of the proceeds will go to Child's Play, so you can maybe feel obliged to spend a little more on a great collection of games.
The indie bundle fad is really being over diluted now and hurting indie games more than helping (how many people do you see on an indie post say "I'll just wait for it to be in a bundle"?)
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that is still much better than before, when people didn't buye it at all. If these things didn't help the devs, then I doubt they would be so abundant.
I now own literally every paid indie pc game I have ever been interested in acquiring, 90% of them obtained from bundles.
Actually, the two exceptions are Capsized and The Void, but I'm just gonna wait for them to be in bundles, which will most likely never happen with the latter. I'd get either on sale, too. Sales are good...
I have to say I'm starting to get burned out on these indie bundles. They're great deals and introduce you to some awesome games you may not have gotten otherwise, but the simple fact is, I'm barely playing a fraction of the games I've bought in bundles like these. I just don't have the time or inclination to get through them all. It's hard to justify buying all these games I'm not going to play.
That being said, if\when this one cracks the $50,000 mark, I can justify buying this one on the FantomenK's music alone.
Thanks for the heads up! I picked it up since I've been wanting most of the games on the bundle. The music with it is also an awesomely pleasant surprise.
I did it. Hopefully it will get to 50,000 because honestly I'm slightly more interested in the .mp3 soundtracks. But if not Childsplay gets some of it and the indie devs get to eat.
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1:00 PM on 02.26.2012 | 
I'll gladly give them a Lincoln, only because I don't think I'll ever play these games, and they'll just sit greyed-out in my Steam library forever.
Nikopol was a very very good prize for reaching the goal, an excellent point n click adventure and based in an excelent french comic.
I hope more people get this bundle, all the games (except Wasteland Angel)worth the time and the bucks you will spend
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that is still much better than before, when people didn't buye it at all. If these things didn't help the devs, then I doubt they would be so abundant.
Actually, the two exceptions are Capsized and The Void, but I'm just gonna wait for them to be in bundles, which will most likely never happen with the latter. I'd get either on sale, too. Sales are good...
That being said, if\when this one cracks the $50,000 mark, I can justify buying this one on the FantomenK's music alone.