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Buy a bunch of Swedish indie games for $15
Swedish indies are featured in this week's "midweek madness" sale on Steam. The ten games, regularly priced between $5 and $10 (with Puzzle Dimension the exception at $3), will be available as a bundle until Thursday for $15.The pack includes Blueberry Garden, winner of best game at the 2009 Independent Games Festival. There's also action platformer Noitu Love 2: Devolution, puzzler Lucidity and RTS Harvest: Massive Encounter. We're beginning to notice a trend with the midweek madness deals: a couple weeks ago there was a UK indie bundle.
Latest Indie Royale bundle is the All-Charity Lightning Pack
A new Indie Royale bundle featuring Osmos, B.U.T.T.O.N., The Shivah and Blueberry Garden has debuted. Unlike past bundles, all of the proceeds from this one don't go to the developers – proceeds go to charities chosen by the developers.In addition to the games, the All-Charity Lightning Pack also tosses in a trio of chiptunes albums should you pony up $7 or more: Level by Disasterpeace, IN1ep by 6955, and FX4 by Jake "virt" Kaufman. Cruise past the break for some video previews of all four games.
Blueberry Garden dev enters iPhone space with Kometen
Erik Svedäng, creator of the Independent Games Festival 2009 grand price winner, Blueberry Garden, has announced his first iPhone game. Kometen "is about exploring space to find art, while at the same time learning how to fly around in a graceful way," Svedäng writes on his blog. Players do this exploring as the "Komet" (Swedish for "comet") of the title, gobbling up objects and performing loop-de-loops against striking watercolor backgrounds by artist Niklas Åkerblad. Unlike many games, iPhone or otherwise, "there isn't any scoring system or way to lose, instead it's all about self improvement and judging your own performance," Svedäng says. Kometen has already been submitted to Apple for approval (which means it could release any time now) and you can watch a video of it in action after the break. [Via Boing Boing]
Steam offers 75% discount on indie games this weekend
Steam is offering the "who's who" of independent video games in an incredible sale you'd be silly to miss. For $30, you can get 10 indie games via the service: Audiosurf Blueberry Garden Braid Crayon Physics Deluxe Darwinia Everyday Shooter Gish Mr. Robot The Path World of Goo There's a lower-budget $20 option as well, which only includes half the games above. Either way, you'll be feeding starving independent developers without having to break the bank. Oh, and most of these games are pretty fun, too. It's a win-win for everyone, so make sure you rush to Steam before the sale ends on Monday, August 10.
