Bought a Humble Bundle

Info flash: Humble Bundle is a, well, bundle of indie games that is sold for whatever price you want. Seriously, any price you want. Whether you want to shell out $1000 to get to the Top Contributors list or if you're so broke you can only spare a cent, you can get (usually) awesome indie games. One bundle usually only last about two weeks or so, then nothing until the next bundle, containing different games, is out.

Right now, the Humble Botanicula Debut is running. Bought it, love it. If you can buy something online, and like point-and-click adventure games in general, I highly recommend giving it a look. There's still one week left to buy it. Or if you are not a fan of adventure sorta-puzzling games, just bookmark the Humble Bundle page or something. The next bundle might be more to your taste. 

The rest of this post is more of a personal banter, or educational information about Indonesian's gaming industry. Call it what you like. It's the result of how this blog post veered from its main purpose.



I live in Indonesia, where the dollar-rupiah conversion rate sometimes isn't that great, and copyright rule is nothing but ignored to the point that pirated games are sold everywhere from the most legit-looking to the definitely shady stores. So getting original non-pirated games is hard work, and with cheap perfectly usable pirated disc circulating sometimes it feels to tempting to just buy them instead.

All the original games here are imported and resold anyway, there's extra shipping, conversing, and for-the-reseller money that won't go to the developer that, in the eye of Indonesians, don't really need them anyway, for all the trouble.

Buying games online is not usually an option. There's still that money conversing thing, and credit card messiness. And it's near-impossible to download most games anyway, they're too heavy and take too much time to download.

Then come the Humble Bundle, whose games are usually light enough to be downloaded from the internet without being killed by our not-that-great connection. And the price... Adjustable with the current local economy, wherever you are in the world! Golden.