By Julan 'MakAttack' MacDonnell
The Humble Indie Bundles have easily spread the word of games developed by small game development studios that are, of course, independent. Amnesia, Botanicula and The Blackwell series are just a few games that have gotten massive support from the gaming community since being placed in their respective bundles. Today a new bundle is upon us, but it isn't what most might think a Humble Bundle would be. Instead of rad games, we get mad beats.
There have been music and soundtracks in these bundles before, but this package goes all the way and dedicates itself solely to some wonderful music, some of which was made for certain video games you may have played. But what music makes up this bundle? Well in Humble Bundle fashion, the content of this package is well rounded. Everyone that donates gets access to DRM free versions of They Might Be Giants' compilation album New and Troubling Questions, MC Frontalot's Favoritisim, Christopher Tin's Calling All Dawn(apparently it's Grammy Award Winning), and game composer Hitoshi Sakimoto's Best of the Valkyria Chronicles. And if you pay more than the average price you get OK Go's Twelve Remixes of Four Songs.
The music is delivered digitally in both MP3 and FLAC formats, and is available digitally upon purchase from the Humble Bundle site. Yeah, no games here, but so what? You give a bit of money(amount is what you determine) to the bundle where in you choose how it's distributed between the producers and charities(Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation) that Humble Bundle supports. As of writing this, the average given amount is around $8.14, so a bit less than the normal going price of one single album. There are some great composers in here that deserve a listen to, and some great charities that you should donate to, so why not give a little? Come on Portal fans, I know that Jonathon Coulton album is calling to you.
The bundle can be found here: http://www.humblebundle.com/
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