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Humble Bundle 8: Jack Lumber, Aaaaa!!!, Little Inferno, Gemini Rue
Humble Bundle PC and Android 8 is live now with a hefty offering of games on four platforms: PC, Mac, Linux and Android. At the price of "anything," this bundle offers Little Inferno, Gemini Rue, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome and Jack Lumber, but you can pay more than the average to snag Hero Academy and Anomaly 2. All games come with Steam keys if you pay more than $1. This is the Linux debut of the chess-like strategy game Hero Academy, the Android and Linux debut of Aaaaa!!!, and the Android, Mac and Linux debut of Wadjet Eye's dystopian adventure Gemini Rue. Proceeds from Humble Bundle PC and Android 8 are split among Humble Bundle, the participating developers and charity, in a formula that you get to decide. And yes, there will be more games before the bundle ends in two weeks. Guaranteed.
PSA: Oculus Rift support now in AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! on Steam
VR fans that were making dinner plans ... STOP! Oculus Rift support for AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome has been added to the game's Steam version, currently priced at $9.99. Developer Dejobaan Games announced last month it was collaborating with Owlchemy Labs to add support for the VR goggles, increasing the vomit quotient of its free-falling title by a factor of one bajillion. Your friends at Joystiq recommend waiting at least one hour after a meal before proceeding. You can trust us: we're not doctors, but we've been practicing.
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for Oooooculus Rift
Prepare your body and vomit bags for AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome in full virtual reality on the Oculus Rift, coming to the game's Steam version from co-developer Owlchemy Labs. For the Awesome is a free-fall simulator that tasks players with enacting stunts and hitting marks while dropping through obstacles at high speeds. Yeah, that's going to be on Oculus Rift. For the Awesome is a semi-sequel, graphical overhaul of AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, developed by Dejobaan Games and nominated for an IGF in 2010. Dejobaan and Owlchemy collaborated on For the Awesome, and now Owlchemy is throwing it off some cliffs on the Oculus Rift. There's no official release date for what Owlchemy calls AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaCULUS!!!, but the team has been testing it in the lab and it should be out "sooner rather than later." Check out some Owlchemy astronauts giving the game a go on Oculus Rift in the Vine below. For the Awesome is discounted to $2.30 throughout the Steam Summer Sale, which runs until July 22. It joins other on-sale indies Monaco, Mutant Blobs Attack and Surgeon Simulator 2013, to name a few, and today's Daily Deals Antichamber and Don't Starve.%Gallery-193639%
Thoughtful Bundle: Fieldrunners, Reckless Disregard for Gravity and more
Indie Royale's Thoughtful Bundle is live, and features five different PC and Mac games for a pay-the-minimum price, which is currently $5.46. Included in the bundle are Snapshot by Retro Affect, Cognition Episode 2: The Wise Monkey by Phoenix Online Studios, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity by Dejobaan Games, Subatomic Studios' Fieldrunners and Snuggle Truck from Owlchemy Labs. Buyers that fork over at least $8 will also receive Night Animals, a chiptune album by Bright Primate.The Thoughtful Bundle will be available on Indie Royale's site until Saturday, March 23.
The Potato Sack Reunion Tour kicks off on Steam today
Last April, Valve launched a guerrilla marketing effort for Portal 2 and promotion on select indie titles. This week Valve remembers its ARG campaign with the Potato Sack Reunion sale, which knocks half off the price of 13 individual indie titles.Games include Super Meat Boy, The Ball, Cogs, Amnesia: The Dark Descent and many more. You can either buy each individually for half-off, or grab the whole bundle for $20.
OnLive giving 30% discount on all games and rentals for the Fourth
We're just as easily drawn into the shame spiral that is buying games we don't have any time to play as the next guy -- especially when a tremendous sale is involved -- so when we offer up news that every game available through OnLive is currently 30 percent off, we have to be a little wary. Sure, it's great for those among us with "self restraint" (or whatever) who'll simply purchase one or two titles and not go totally bananas, but what of us folks with ... control issues? Well, yeah, we suppose there's always the rental options being equivalently discounted. Thankfully, the sale only lasts through Monday (at 11:59PM ET), otherwise we might end up with another two or three copies of AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity ... which is only $7, by the way. Dammit!
Sign up for Dejobaan Fan Club, receive free game
Indie studio Dejobaan Games, best known for AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, is giving out a free game when folks sign up for its "Free, Sexy Dejobaan Fan Club." The studio tells us that the fan club, for which over 1,000 have registered since PAX East, will also grant participants access to future alphas and betas. Because, if you're a true fan, you'll help with the bug testing process for free and love the studio anyway. In addition to the free game, those who sign up will also receive a song by studio founder Ichiro Lambe. Although the studio hasn't announced its next "real" game yet, it is currently "very strongly prototyping" the Musorqua project.
Boston Indie Showcase participants selected for PAX East
The Penny Arcade Expo is mixing things up a bit for its inaugural east coast occurrence -- the annual showcase of independent games will now focus on local flavors. According to an update on the PAX East site, the Boston Indie Showcase (which attendees can spot on the show floor at Booth 117) will offer six games the chance to be prominently displayed at a major gaming event without "eating into their elusive indie budgets." Here's a list of the games which made the cut, along with links to additional info. Slam Bolt Scrappers - Fire Hose Games AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - Dejobaan Games Dearth - MIT Gambit Game Lab Waker - MIT Gambit Game Lab Turba - Keith Morgado Miegakure - Marc ten Bosch
Dejobaan looking to branch out to other platforms, strongly prototyping Musorqua
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity developer Dejobaan Games is looking to take a "derivative of Aaaaa" to other platforms. Studio founder Ichiro Lambe told us at DICE, "Over the course of 2010, we want to investigate branching out both to mobile, we're talking about iPhone and Android, and also Wii and Xbox development." One of those titles taking the multiplatform walkabout would likely be Musorqua, which Lambe describes as a game the studio is "very strongly prototyping." He explained, "If that works, that's the direction we're going to take if people are excited, if the press is excited about it, if it excites us. If not, we're going to tweak that a bit." He also said that they'll "definitely" be showing it off at PAX East next month.
Independent Games Festival 2010 finalists announced
The contenders for the 12th Annual Independent Games Festival awards have been announced today -- you can find the full list of finalists after the jump. In addition to the Seamus McNally Grand Prize (nominees for which include Joe Danger and Super Meat Boy), there are specialized categories recognizing excellence in art, design, audio, and technical achievement. There's also the Nuovo Award, which honors "abstract, shortform, and unconventional game development." Previous winners of the Nuovo include N+ co-creator Mare Sheppard and Passage developer Jason Rohrer. We find ourselves particularly invested in this year's awards show, as -- deep breath now -- AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard For Gravity was nominated for Excellence in Design. We've got, like, a million jokes we still want to make about that game title, but we're running out of opportunities to do so.
'Aaaaa' creator announces music game, 'Musorqua'
Dejobaan Games, developer of AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, has announced a new game with a somewhat less nonsensical title (and one that, should it ever be released in a physical format, would fit much more easily onto a CD case's spine: Musorqua. The game, built on Aaaaa(etc.) technology in its prototype form, evokes Rez, involving shooting at different items to create musical sounds. Each musical track is represented by objects of a certain color, and bonuses are awarded by "kissing" buildings of the same color by brushing against them. You can see footage of the prototype after the break. It's pretty abstract! No release date or platforms have been named, making even the idea of this as a playable product abstract. [Via Shacknews]
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! coming to Steam on Sept. 3
AAAaaAaaaAAaaAAAAaaaAA!! No, that's not the name of the game -- don't you remember the spelling lesson we gave you when the title was first announced? That's just an excited exclamation we howled upon seeing this terrific piece of news: Dejobaan's BASE jumping simulator/recipient of Joystiq's Title of the Year 2009 award, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity is coming to SteaaaAAAaaAaam on September 3. If you're hoping to get the jump (nailed it!) on the game's release, you can pre-order the title now and get 10 percent off the game's $14.99 price tag. In addition, pre-orders will receive Dejobaan's earlier title, The Wonderful End of the World, for free. It looks like a fairly competent Katamari Damacy clone -- though its moniker could definitely use some work. Seriously, it doesn't even have any seemingly random capitalization or exclamation points. Boo-riiing.
Title of the Year: Dejobaan's AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!
Now, for the sake of clarity, we should explain what we mean when we say "title of the year". Dejobaan's upcoming BASE jumping simulator, which resembles a mash-up of Mirror's Edge and Pilotwings (check out a gameplay demo after the jump), doesn't really look like GOTY material (or GOTW material, for that matter). However, the game's moniker is pure brilliance: AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity. The game's designers suggest that the press truncate the title to a mere Aaaaa! but we won't be doing that. AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! is set to drop (har) in Q3 2009 on PCs. We probably won't pick it up (our preferred sports rarely get more extreme than ping pong) but we'll defend that title to our graves. Get it straight people -- it's one big "A", four little "a"s, two big "A"s, three little "a"s, three big "A"s, two little "a"s, four big "A"s, one little "a", five big "A"s and three exclamation points. It's not that hard to remember.
