Have a Mac? Great. Use Linux? Awesome. Looking for Android? No problem. This Humble Weekly Sale features eight enticing titles for Windows and Mac, with select games available for Linux and Android. And hey, all these games also come DRM-free, with most available on Steam!
Each game in this bundle was made featuring some open source tool or library. Pay what you want for Magical Diary , NEO Scavenger (Early Access Game), Offspring Fling! and Planet Stronghold . If you pay $6 or more, you’ll also receive Anodyne , Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten , Evoland and Incredipede .
But wait, there’s more! An exclusive demo of Even the Ocean , by the makers of Anodyne is available on Windows and Mac for all purchasers!
Buyers of this weekly sale can also choose where their money goes: to the developers and/or to support open source projects FlashDevelop, OpenFL, Ren’Py and Haxe Foundation.
Check ‘em out!
Magical Diary features a player-designed witch attending a school for magic in the mountains of Vermont. Arrange your studies to learn the spells of your choice and apply them in exams held in the school dungeons. Along the way, you can make new friends, run for class office, romance male or female characters, and try to find a date for the May Day Ball. But be careful! You might end up in detention, be lured into a secret society, be forced to marry your professor or have your mind and your magic stolen away…
NEO Scavenger is an early access game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. In each turn you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter. With each passing minute, the pit in your stomach grows, your dehydration worsens, your muscles tire, and your body temperature drops in the cold autumn air. Choose your starting abilities carefully, because they and your wit are the only tools you have in the apocalypse!
Offspring Fling! is a game about a poor forest creature that has misplaced all of her children. She’ll have to fight her way through over 100 levels of action puzzle platforming to get them all back home. There’s danger around every corner, but she won’t rest until her family is safe again. Offspring Fling also comes with a level editor for infinite possibilities!
Planet Stronghold is a sci-fi role-playing game with a turn-based combat system. You take the role of a young, new recruit that somehow gets assigned to the most well-known, and well-defended, human outpost in the whole galaxy: Planet Stronghold. As the story goes on, you will have to choose a side in a war that will change the destiny of the planet and humankind – forever.
Featuring old-school turn based tactical battles, a dynamic plot that changes based on your choices and several possible solutions to each situation using various non-combat skills, Planet Stronghold delivers a very high replayability!
Anodyne is a 2-D puzzle-adventure game where you play as Young and explore his uneasy subconsciousness. Armed with a good ol’ broom, Young sets off to protect the Briar from The Darkness. The game balances exploration with puzzle-solving as your broom goes from weapon to dust-shifting device. Be sure to leave nothing unturned as you travel through dark dungeons, dainty villages and vast fields. Japanese translation included and localized by Kakehashi Games!
Note: Anodyne uses Adobe AIR.
An exclusive demo of Even the Ocean is available on Windows and Mac for all purchasers.
Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten is a tower defense/RPG hybrid that focuses on three things: tactical depth, customization and story. That means no random encounters, no spikey-haired emo kids, no forced time sinks and no tedious or repetitive battles.
The battle system builds off of tower defense, with individual characters taking the place of towers. Characters level-up, learn skills and equip gear individually, allowing the player to customize their battle experience and strategy. The overall game structure is similar to “tactical” RPGs, but with a real-time battle system. Game speed is adjustable and commands can even be issued while the game is paused.
Defender’s Quest: Valley of the Forgotten also features an engaging, character-driven story written by an actual English major!
Evoland continues the story that began in Evoland Classic, taking you further along the history of action adventure gaming, adding collectible items, new monsters and bosses and, more importantly, new gameplay features and full 3-D environments! New players will discover more about video game history and experience entertaining and creative gameplay. Veterans will also enjoy a host of nostalgic references to legendary titles scattered along the game.
Incredipede is an inventive puzzler where you control Quozzle, the quirky and lovable incredipede, as she journeys through nature on a quest to find her long lost sisters. Each level starts with a pre-made Quozzle with different capabilities and strengths. It’s up to you to master Quozzle’s limbs, collect fruit and complete each level.
The Humble Weekly Sale: Celebrating Open Source is here for one week and ends Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time!
For a while now, all the far-flung members of the Wu-Tang Clan have been working, with varying levels of enthusiasm, on the troubled group album A Better Tomorrow; early track "Keep Watch" may or may not be on it. But there's also apparently another Wu-Tang album, and only one very rich and very enthusiastic fan will get to own it. The group's new LP Once Upon A Time In Shaolin will only be available in a limited edition of one. And it will cost millions.
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Giant Bomb's Site Mashup Goat Simulator Launches Next Week
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Satellite News It's Official and it's Not a Prank…but it's NOT Going to Be a 'New Version of MST3K'
At long last we are able to gibve you correct information about the rumors that have been running rampant on the web. RiffTrax is coming to TV.
RiffTrax has created three hour-long specials that will debut on the NatGeo cable channel Tuesday, April 1, beginning at 8 p.m. eastern and Pacific (and then will repeat a number of times).
Called "Total Riff Off," the three shows are "Killer Shrimp 'N Friends," "Demon Bat" and "A Guy and a Goose." Each installment will run twice that night.
This is official and confirmed by RiffTrax. Will there be more? I would guess that would have something to do with the ratings.
Here's the official NatGeo press release:
Don't be alarmed when you turn on National Geographic Channel (NGC) on April Fools' Day and see a mantis shrimp talking about its dinner or bloodthirsty monsters being compared to celebrities. We've just decided to have a little fun this year.
For the first time, National Geographic Channel has teamed up with RiffTrax, the movie and television commentary group created by the guys responsible for "Mystery Science Theater 3000." So what does this mean? Your favorite Nat Geo programming with some unconventional commentary worked in around the narration and dialogue — three hours of it. Total Riff Off premieres Tuesday, April 1, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET/PT only on NGC. For more information, visit www.natgeotv.com/totalriffoff and follow us on Twitter at @NGC_PR.
After "Mystery Science Theater 3000″ went off the air, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett continued to receive requests from fans to revive the show in some form. And so grew RiffTrax, a website where fans can download commentary to play along with their favorite movies or television shows. And National Geographic Channel has booked them for one night only.
In Total Riff Off, it's all about the animals, but not as you're used to seeing them on Nat Geo. RiffTrax takes on the honey badger, mantis shrimp and geographer's cone snail of Bad@$$ Animals. These seriously unsuspecting creatures are funnier than you might think.
The guys then work their commentary magic on some unlikely relationships between man and his animals — in one instance a goose and in the other, a seal — in segments from Unlikely Animal Friends. And they get their hands on a segment from My Dog Ate What? to riff about a pup with an affinity for thongs.
Finally, riffers Nelson, Murphy and Corbett add their hilarious commentary to an episode of Man v. Monster. Imagine the jokes when they sink their teeth into host Richard Terry's suspenseful hunt for an elusive flesh-eating bat.
At the end of the three hours of Total Riff Off, you may be a little wiser and you may have even learned a thing or two. You will definitely have had a fun ride listening to RiffTrax have a little April Fools' Day fun with some of NGC's already entertaining programming.
In the absence of full information from either RiffTrax or the NatGeo (there was a set rollout date), many news sites went with a tiny bit of information, and a few sites even promised "The return of MST3K" or "A new version of MST3K." This created a lot of excitement. There were posts from people talking about happy they were going to be to see Tom Servo and Crow again, etc. This is not going to be that, it was never intended to be that, and if you know somebody who thinks that's what's happening, please gently disabuse them of this.
It's Official and it's Not a Prank…but it's NOT Going to Be a 'New Version of MST3K' originally appeared on Satellite News on March 24, 2014.
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Gizmodo You Might Have Free Amazon Money Waiting in Your Inbox
If you're a regular buyer of Kindle ebooks, you want to go check your email; inside, there might just be a little present from Amazon waiting for you. And by "present" I mean "legally mandated compensation to make up for years of price-fixing." Just like Christmas!
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It's not too often these days that an iPhone still surprises you. We've more or less seen it all by now. Except, we haven't. FireChat is a new app that takes advantage of a little-known iOS feature that makes it easy to set up and run a network even when there's no cellular signal.
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Gizmodo Watching these dogs confused by a magic trick is hilariously cute
Dogs can be incredibly smart but—when it comes to trusting humans—they are as naive as a little kid who doesn't know what a lie means yet. Watching these dogs getting completely confused when magician Jose Ahonen mades a treat disappear right in front of their eyes (and noses) makes me laugh and awwww at the same time.
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Pushbullet recently updated with IFTTT support, following Tasker integration last month. That's a lot of our favorite words together in a single sentence. Naturally, it's a good time to take a look at some of the best uses for Pushbullet.
In case you haven't heard of Pushbullet (it's still relatively new, so it's hard to blame you), there's a ton of functionality you get right out of the box, so it's worth taking a look at that. To get started, there are a few downloads you can install, depending on where you want to get or send notifications from:
Pushbullet also utilizes Chrome's rich notification system to show you notifications that have been mirrored from your device (more on that later) or sent from the Pushbullet app to your browser. Firefox has a similar toast notification function, though it's slightly less robust (for example, Chrome allows you to dismiss a notification on your phone from the desktop, while Firefox does not).
From any of these apps or extensions, you can send something to any of the others. Here's some of the functionality that's built right in to Pushbullet:
Send links between devices: In a way, Pushbullet is what Chrome to Phone was intended to be (before it was abandoned in favor of Chrome tab sync). From your desktop, using the Chrome or Firefox extension, you can send a link to your phone or tablet with the click of a button.
Copy files to other devices: Pushbullet can copy files from one device to another, including pictures, videos, music files, PDFs, APKs, and just about anything else that you can copy. While Dropbox is a pretty good solution for some file movement, being able to push a file directly from one device to another without a middleman can be useful.
Open an address in your maps app: One of the sucky things about Chrome to Phone getting abandoned is that moving a Maps location from your desktop to your phone is a little harder. If you're in Maps on the desktop, you can send a link from where you're at. You can also send an address without opening up Maps at all with the address function. Both options open directly in the Maps app on Android. iOS requires you to open the address in the Pushbullet app first, but then it will jump to your maps application.
Put a to-do list in your notification shade: Sometimes you need a to-do list to be in your face and you need it immediately. You can create a checklist from the Pushbullet extension and push it directly to your phone or tablet. Or vice versa.
One of the neatest features of Pushbullet on Android is that it can mirror your notifications on your desktop. You can do this en masse or on a per app basis. The app accomplishes this by using the notification listening service (which is why it doesn't work on iOS, unfortunately). Enable notification mirroring on your Android phone or tablet and then install the Pushbullet extension on Chrome or Firefox. From then on, any notification you get will show up on your desktop. You can even dismiss them from your phone, which makes it particularly handy for managing all the notifications that build up during the day.
Of course, all of this functionality is built right in. You didn't come here for the stuff you already knew you could do, did you? Let's get to the fun stuff.
The newly minted IFTTT channel for Pushbullet has already been populated with dozens of recipes that allow the service to send notifications directly to your phone, tablet, or PC when certain criteria are met. You can browse the entire channel here.
This section actually has a bit of overlap with a similar service, Pushover, which we've covered before . While both services can send notifications to your device via IFTTT, Pushbullet excels by making it easier to send thing between devices manually, as well as having Tasker integration which we'll get to next. If you're more inclined to write your own code, however, Pushover might be worth your attention.
The stock channel on IFTTT allows you to find out if a particular stock has dropped or risen by more than a set percent, or simply to check in at the end of the trading day. Data for stock trading is provided by Yahoo! Finance.
If you're like me, then any time you're expecting a package, you're constantly refreshing Fedex's website like a mad man, anyway. Instead, you can have IFTTT send a notification directly to your phone any time your package changes status. For now, it seems the shipping channel can't filter out any status except "delivered" (which is the only one we care about), but it's still helpful.
IFTTT allows you to call in to a dedicated number and leave a voice message for yourself (or others!). With the Pushbullet channel, you can send that voice message directly to your tablet or desktop. The notification will include an audio file of the recording that you can download to any of your devices.
Okay, you probably have somewhere in the area of hundreds of apps on your phone that can retrieve the weather. However, Pushbullet and IFTTT can send weather alerts directly to your phone or desktop. You can get a daily reminder of tomorrow's forecast, receive a notification if it's going to rain tomorrow, or just get today's weather report every morning.
For some of us, we find out that Google services go down because our Twitter feeds won't shut up about it. If you're not quite that addicted to information overload, you can find out when a service is having a problem (or when it comes back) with the Google app status RSS feed. To make it even easier, you can have IFTTT send Pushbullet a notification every time the app status feed updates.
IFTTT isn't the only automation service that's gotten the Pushbullet treatment. About a month back, Tasker got Pushbullet support, which means that you can trigger notifications based on any profile your phone can run. Moreover, those notifications can go to any device. This means that Pushbullet notifications are about as flexible as Tasker itself, but here are a few examples of things you can do with Tasker:
Unfortunately, Tasker's ability to execute commands when it receives a Pushbullet notification seem to be broken right now, however if this is ever fixed, you would also be able to execute Tasker actions remotely by sending notifications with a specific name attached.
Pushbullet may seem like just a notification service, but with IFTTT and Tasker support, as well as extensions for two of our favorite desktop browsers, it packs a serious punch. The Pushbullet recipe page has been steadily growing since launch (more than 20 new recipes have shown up just while writing this article), so be sure to check them out.
If you're allergic to soybeans or avoiding soy for other reasons, it might seem like tofu is off the menu for you. But wait! There's a new tofu in town and it's made from hemp. I recently gave it a try and here's what I thought of it...
Hear that? That’s the sound of six sweet rhythm games in the Humble Weekly Sale! Name your price for BIT.TRIP RUNNER , available DRM-free for Windows, Mac and Linux. Pay $1 or more to access the game on Steam and also receive Symphony and Sequence on Steam for Windows. If you pay $6 or more, you’ll also get Audiosurf , Beat Hazard Ultra and Retro/Grade , available DRM-free and on Steam.
You can also choose where your money goes: to the developers and/or two essential causes, Child’s Play Charity and Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Let’s play some games!
BIT.TRIP RUNNER radiates charm and challenge with retro-styled, music-platformer gameplay. Players take control of CommanderVideo as he runs through more than 30 levels. Each stage features a unique music track perfectly synced to CommanderVideo’s hops and slides, resulting in a fresh and intuitive platforming experience.
Dodge enemies and blow up your foes in Symphony, the unique music-driven game that uses your very own song collection as the game’s battlefield. A mysterious force is infesting your music files and attempting to corrupt your song library, but you’ve got an impressive array of weapons to defeat their attacks. With an arsenal chock-full of devastating weapons and an agile fighter-plane, you’ll fight off these viruses in no time! Symphony boasts five out-of-this-world boss battles, six difficulty levels and a cutting-edge music analysis system that adapts the game to any song you like!
Symphony is the winner of Indie Game Challenge’s “Technical Achievement Award” in 2012.
Sequence combines elements of both rhythm and role-playing games to create an entirely unique experience. Join Ky on his ascent of a mysterious tower, guided onward by a girl named Naia. Encounter deadly monsters and ridiculous characters, and discover the grand scheme behind Ky’s mysterious imprisonment… that is, if you can survive the journey.
Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, speed and mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. Earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway and compete with others online for the high score on your favorite songs. Choose from 14 different characters to make each ride a unique experience.
Audiosurf won the Independent Games Festival’s “Excellence in Audio” award in 2008.
Beat Hazard Ultra is an arcade shooter powered by music — just choose any song from the game or from your music collection to fuel your gameplay. Power up your spaceship and watch as the music boosts your firepower. Unleash hell on enemy ships when you max out with weapon pickups!
*Note: Beat Hazard Ultra includes the base game and DLC. The DLC adds awesome new features to Beat Hazard, taking the game to the next level. More games mode, enemies and bosses. Play online Head to Head or Co-op. Unlock and upgrade perks and customize your set-up to suit your play style.
Retro/Grade is a mind-bending rhythm game where the flow of time itself has been reversed. Help Rick Rocket restore the continuity of space-time by un-firing your shots to the beat of the music while avoiding enemy attacks!
The Humble Weekly Sale: Rhythm Games is only here for one week, so head over to Humble Bundle before this deal ends Thursday, March 27 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time!
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