There's now four active bundles. Just got an email for the next Humble bundle; another cross platform bundle for Android, Windows and Mac and Linux.
The games included are:
Zenbound 2
Cogs,
Avadon: The Black Fortress
Canabalt
And if you pay above the average which at the moment stands at $6.01 you will get:
Swords & Soldiers HD
As usual with the humble bundles, part of your contribution can go to two charities EFF and Childs Play.
You can check the deal out HERE
I've also posted details in the main Indie Bundle thread. As there are three main bundles still active plus a minor one I though it prudent to post a separate post for the new bundle. As usual, I've got all but one of the games (Cababalt) a 2D version of a Mirrors Edge type game commonly referred to as parkour.
Swords & Soldiers
The Game:
Rewrite history as you take control of the brutal Vikings, the devious Aztecs or the crafty Chinese in their global quest to win the favour of the Gods!Swords & Soldiers is a side-scrolling strategy game that lets you control an entire army and lets you wield devastating magical abilities. Demolish your enemy’s castle at the end of these two-dimensional battlefields and lead your troops to victory!
Features:
1) ... Hours of single-player campaign gameplay.
... Challenging skirmishes and frantic multiplayer matches that let you take the fight to your friends!
3) ... Several compelling challenge modes to unlock that will test your abilities to their limits in a bid for that one glorious high score!
You can see a you tube video of game play HERE
Canabalt:
The Game:
The moment you hit "Play" on Canabalt your character runs forward, intrepidly smashes through a window, and descends onto a rooftop. The explosion propels the glass; its tiny shards tinkling as they tumble outward along the top of the building. You roll with the momentum of the fall and rise up into a continued run towards the edge of the building.
Canabalt is a game people fail at immediately but understand quickly. It is a simple platform game fueled with a profound parkour sensibility. The essence of parkour is a form of movement that seeks to navigate your path with pristine efficiency as though you are being pursued. When you watch videos of parkour it is clear there is a planning process involved in how its practitioners will use the terrain as their ally. Parkour involves a lot of critical thinking that Canabalt encourages because the longer your feet run unhindered, the faster you go.
The only action you can perform in the game is a jump, and jumping is pressure sensitive — essentially the height of your jump depends on the duration of your touch, but your speed influences your jump as well. As you run you come across obstacles: boxes, bombs that fall from the sky, crumbling buildings, a monstrous object falls and demolishes buildings, and windows you must crash through.
Should you choose to look at the background as you nimbly leap over obstacles, you see that game designer Adam Atomic has bothered to add a dystopian landscape to the black, white, and gray palette game. As you run, you see spaceships fly by and shake the screen. The buildings in the distance seem to have chunks missing, and further behind them you see the occasional AT-AT Walker-shaped robots trudging past smoke that billows up into the sky.
Similarly, Danny Baranowsky's music enriches the industrial-themed background and fuels your infatuation with the gameplay. His score begins with a foghorn-like portent that rises into a machinegun-style drum beat. The theme then erupts with a synth guitar grind that waivers before progressing into the a playful marimba that gradually rises in tempo.
But Canabalt's true brilliance is rooted in how its reliance on your senses is a virtual echo of parkour's ideals. When bombs or those monstrous objects fall during the game, there is an audible shudder that precedes them. This sound forces you to plan your leaps so that you are able to bound over them safely. You must also keenly focus on the path ahead; hit too many obstacles and you might not be running fast enough to make your next jump, run too quickly and you might not see the upcoming window and miss the timing required to successfully leap through it.
The immediacy of the gameplay also entices you to keep pursing its hurdles. A death in Canabalt doesn't deter your desire to conquer your previous score because no two games share the same path of rooftops or obstacles. Each failure only encourages you to reconsider your philosophy of play, or demands a promise to hone your senses, a promise that states that the next time you spawn at the beginning of the game, descend on the first building, and watch the flock of white birds rise you vow: "watch how I soar."
Reference accessed HERE 19th March 2012
You can see a you tube video of game play HERE
Zen Bound 2:
The Game:
Wrap your way to bliss in Zen Bound 2, the unique down-tempo indie game! This is a different gaming experience: an opportunity to slow down, zone out and focus on a task that’s challenging but not stressful, a set of gentle puzzles for the mind and fingers to solve.
The goal of the game is to paint wooden sculptures by wrapping them in rope - a task that may sound simple but has surprising complexity. Each of the levels presents a spatial puzzle that becomes obvious through inspection. Some levels feature paint bombs that are helpful in covering complex areas of the object.
Zen Bound 2 is a calm and meditative gameplay experience, with tactile, dusty visuals and a sublime, enveloping soundtrack by the sensational electronic artist ‘Ghost Monkey’.
Features:
1) ... Multi-touch controls for object manipulation on Macs with multi-touch trackpads
2) ... Over 100 levels
3) ... Multiple gameplay modes with paint bombs
4) ... 45-minute soundtrack from ‘Ghost Monkey’
5) ... Beautiful high definition visuals
You can see a you tube video of game play HERE
Cogs:
The Game:
Cogs is a puzzle game where players build machines from sliding tiles. Players can choose from 50 levels and 3 gameplay modes. New puzzles are unlocked by building contraptions quickly and efficiently.
Features:
1) ... Inventor Mode: Starting with simple puzzles, players are introduced to the widgets that are used to build machines — gears, pipes, balloons, chimes, hammers, wheels, props, and more.
2) ... Time Challenge Mode: If you finish a puzzle in Inventor Mode, it will be unlocked here. This time, it will take fewer moves to reach a solution, but you only have 30 seconds to find it.
3) ... Move Challenge Mode: Take your time and plan ahead. Every click counts when you only get ten moves to find a solution.
You can see a you tube video of game play HERE
Avadon (aka Avadon: The Black fortress)
The Game:
Avadon: The Black Fortress is an epic, Indie fantasy role-playing saga. Form a band of skilled warriors, explore dungeons, hunt for treasure, learn many unique and powerful skills, and attempt to unravel a conspiracy that threatens to destroy your homeland!
Five great nations have banded together to form The Pact. The Pact is defended by Avadon, a secretive sect of spies and assassins. Its agents are everywhere. Its word is law.
You have been recruited as a Hand of Avadon, charged with missions that require swift action and a heavy fist. However, the enemies of the Pact have plans of their own, and Hands of Avadon are being picked off one by one. It will fall to you to struggle to survive and to reveal that plot that could shatter the safety of The Pact and plunge your homeland into chaos.
Beware! Allies are few. Traitors are everywhere. And the closer you come to the truth, the closer their assassins will come to you.
Features:
1) ... Epic, Indie fantasy role-playing adventure in an enormous and unique world.
2) ... Four different character classes, with dozens of unique spells and abilities.
3) ... Uncover the fascinating history of Avadon and the land of Lynaeus.
4) ... Many different endings. Your choices will change the world.
5) ... Dozens of side quests, hidden dungeons, and secrets to discover.
6) ... Hundreds of magical items to find. Use enchanted crystals to make your artifacts even more powerful.
7) ... Huge adventure with lots of replay value.
You can see a you tube video of game play HERE
