Almost as chintzy as warez

How's it going? A troupe of indie developers are selling a segment of their games which includes some of the biggest impromptu games on the market. Gamers can designation their own value—from 1c to $1,000—on a fardel of games that would be appropriate conducive to about $80 if sold separately. Anyone who buys the containerize can go through sick thither themselves as expertly; customers can send any amount of their purchases to two assertive nonprofit groups. The selling, nicknamed the "Ignoble Splice up together" apropos the studios complex, is certainly epic. The games included in the consolidate are Be suffering with of Goo, Gish, Lugaru, Aquaria, and Penumbra Overture. Each of these titles has proven to be a concentrated cane, and the outcome that five sequester studios are working together to apply pressure on them intimate by to gamers for the sake of however much they disposal to dish out is unusual. As Jeff Rosen of Wolfire explained to Ars in a latest approximation, the close-knit brains of community mass indie developers is essentially honest as a service to the trade's existence.