A while ago my friend Wouter posted something about the Humble Bundle (part 3). For those who don’t like clicking links: the Humble Bundle is a bundle of games you can play, and you can define your own price for them. So if you feel like the amount of games you get are worth $20, that’s what you pay and if you only wish to pay $1, that’s alright too. You can even get them for free (but I’d feel awfully bad about that). When you pay for the bundle, you can decide how much of this money should go to the developers and how much to a number of charities. For all the games you get, you also get a Steam + Desura code, so you can play them from there as well. Plus, if you spend more than the average, which is now at $5.68, you also get all games from the 2nd bundle.
I decided to get it and immediately got hooked on the first game I started: VVVVVV. This one is as oldskool as it gets.
You play the captain of a space ship which has crashed and left all crew members lost in space. It’s up to you to get them and teleport them back. Here comes the awesome part: there is no jumping. Left is left and right is right, but the space bar makes you float up and stick to the ceiling, or go down again. This concept makes for some really unexpected and difficult moves you can make. The learning curve, therefore, is particularly big, easily reaching the levels of any Megaman game. The graphics look like they’re from the eighties, and the music fits that style perfectly. In that sense it’s pure nostalgia in a can. I’ve played three levels so far and I can highly recommend it!
Also, that Humble Bundle is just too good to miss :)