Mar 9, 2013

Super Hexagon / Humble Bundle

Anybody playing Super Hexagon? Seems like the kind of thing we'd get a ridiculous obsessive time-eating rivalry going with, at least in our more youthful days. If you don't have it yet you can get it for cheap with some other indie games as part of the Humble Bundle with Android 5.

In case anyone's up for a conversation topic...
Humble Bundle has an interesting pricing system. You pay what you want for a bundle of games from different developers. You also decide who gets the money: You set how the money you've paid is divided amongst the individual developers, some charities, and Humble Bundle itself. If you want the preselected bonus games (Super Hexagon was one this time), you have to pay more than the average price paid by customers so far (in this case, less than $7).

So the questions are:

  1. How much do you pay if you definitely want the bonus games?
  2. How much do you pay if you don't care about the bonus games?
  3. How do you split up the payment between developers and charities?
  4. How do you split up the payment among developers if you're really buying the bundle for one particular game?
  5. Should we develop our own game?

I realize I'm probably talking to myself. Wouldn't be the first time. I can still post my own high scores and try to beat them, in which case pretty much I WIN.

Hexagon 49:04
Hexagoner 27:55
Hexagonest 09:18*

* This reminds me of Reid playing Super Mario Bros. and falling down a hole every few seconds. Sad. Speaking of which: World's Hardest Mario Game.