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Steam weekly sales: Thirty Flights of Loving, Elemental, more
Another week, another round of hefty Steam discounts: 18 games and applications are on sale this week with prices ranging from 50 to 75 percent off. Most notable are the indie darlings. Both Elemental and Retro City Rampage can now be purchased for $5 a piece, while Thirty Flights of Loving is a mere $2. If you're in more of a retro, strategic mood, have a look at either Jagged Alliance 2 Gold or Disciples II: Gallean's Return, games that are now priced at $5 and $1.62 respectively. For more information and a full list of all software on sale this week, have a look at Steam's weekly sales page.
Humble Weekly Sale shakes it up with Blendo Games
The Humble Weekly Sale has a quartet of titles from Blendo Games, featuring IGF nominees Thirty Flights of Loving, Flotilla and Atom Zombie Smasher, and educational children's game Air Forte. Pay more than $1 to get Flotilla, Atom Zombie Smasher and Air Forte, or pay above the average asking price (currently around $4) to add Thirty Flights of Loving to that list.Buying a bundle includes the soundtracks for Atom Zombie Smasher, Air Forte and Thirty Flights of Loving, as long as the appropriate price is hit. The purchase price is divvied up among charity, the Humble Bundle or the developer, as with all Humble purchases. These Blendo Games games (games) will be available on the Humble Store for six more days, so go mix it up while you still can.
World of Glue, Gurney, Spy Parity, more free in Mumble Indie Bungle
Pippin Barr is up to his academic tricks again, this time with a bundle of six new games based on popular indie titles as if they were misheard in conversation: Gurney, World of Glue, Spy Parity, Proteas, 30 Flights of Loathing and Carp Life. These make up the Mumble Indie Bungle, and five of them are completely free, available to download for PC and Mac on Barr's site. Carp Life – a play on IGF mega-winner Cart Life – is extra special, available for $1 or any price over it."The idea for the collection, in keeping with the titles, is that it's meant to be this set of crappy indie games that someone perhaps bought for you, mistaking them for the originals," Barr writes on his blog. "So you might excitedly unwrap your new bundle of games to find something like Subpar Meat Boy and Flour (Instead of Super Meat Boy and Flower). Not that I'm using those two titles, though both were originally near the top of the list."Gurney – a title parody of thatgamecompany's Journey – has players type out religious phrases as they scroll across the bottom of the screen, over the rolling, flickering lights of a hospital ceiling and anxious faces of doctors. The words become jumbled as the player loses consciousness, and Barr warns that eventually the game can cause seizures, so be careful with that one. Or, have fun.World of Glue is a platforming play on World of Goo, Spy Parity is a jab at Chris Hecker's Spy Party, Proteas is an experiment on Proteus and 30 Flights of Loathing is a step away from Blendo Games' Thirty Flights of Loving.Check out all the games your aging aunt thinks you're talking about on Barr's site, and buy Carp Life for whatever you think it's worth right here.
Thirty Flights of Loving now seducing Mac
A Mac port of Thirty Flights of Loving, Blendo Games' follow-up to indie darling Gravity Bone, is now available for $5. You can get it through Steam or, if you'd prefer to avoid DRM, Blendo Games' website.Originally bundled into Idle Thumbs' Kickstarter package, Thirty Flights of Loving made its debut to non-backers in August. Thirty Flights of Loving continues creator Brendon Chung's desire to tell a story within a linear, first-person adventure framework. It's a short game, and apparently a very good one too.
Thirty Flights of Loving tells its story on Steam
Previously exclusive to a certain tier of backers for the Idle Thumbs Kickstarter drive, Blendo Games' Thirty Flights of Loving is available for purchase on Steam today. The self-proclaimed "first person short story" is a sequel to the indie outfit's previous game, Gravity Bone.Thirty Flights of Loving is available for 10 percent off until August 27, for $4.49 – at which point it'll go back to the full price of $4.99. If you're not thrilled about the whole DRM thing, you can purchase a copy of Thirty Flights of Loving directly through Blendo's site.%Gallery-148879%
Take a few seconds to check out Thirty Flights of Loving
Whether you're plunking down $30 on the Idle Thumbs Kickstarter, or waiting patiently to pick up Thirty Flights of Loving later on, at least you don't have to wait in the interim before checking out some screens and the above teaser trailer. Your interest is warranted: It's the sequel to Blendo Games' Gravity Bone, an excellent PC game that's still available for free download.%Gallery-148879%
Idle Thumbs Kickstarter includes exclusive game, neat artwork
It seems everyone's got a Kickstarter nowadays. Double Fine just surpassed $2 million, inXile is going to use Kickstarter to reboot a classic and now the Idle Thumbs video game podcast is using the site to finance its future.The interesting thing about this Kickstarter campaign, however, is that it includes an exclusive game called Thirty Flights of Loving by Blendo Games. It's a sequel to the one-man indie development studio's previous effort, Gravity Bone, a spy-based affair blending adventure and first-person shooting elements. Thirty Flights of Loving will be given to all backers who drop $30 or more down.If you want to throw down more cash, Vincent Perea and Graham Annable, the artists behind The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom and Puzzle Agent, respectively, will toss in some of their doodlings. So hurry up and help the crew finance their -- oh, they already hit their goal? Okay then, head on over if you want to pay for some stuff you want.
