Nothing sounds sweeter in a slow economy than pay-what-you-want. The Humble Indie Bundle has been a phenomenal success, generating millions of dollars for developers and two charities: Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The third bundle launched today, and has racked up nearly $100,000 in sales, as of this writing. That number is increasing every second, however, and will assuredly be out of date as soon as you read this. If you want to keep tabs on the money, the counter updates in real-time on the website. It's mesmerizing.

Humble Indie Bundle #3 includes Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVVVVV, Hammerfight and And Yet It Moves. All five games are built to run on Windows, Mac and Linux without DRM--and include Steam keys.

I've played all but Hammerfight, and can vouch for the quality of those four generously. The bundles tend to include the best of the best, so all this means is that I'm being introduced to something new and great.

Plus, if you've been looking for a finger destroyer, VVVVVV is it. I'm still having nightmares from beating that one, but with the addition of new levels, the temptation to jump back in again is strong.

The average contribution is currently $4.25, but pay-what-you-want means exactly that. If you don't have more, pay less.

If you're feeling generous, pony up! Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Perrson is at the top of the contributor leaderboards, having thrown $2,000 towards the feel good cause.

Nothing sounds sweeter in a slow economy than pay-what-you-want. The Humble Indie Bundle has been a phenomenal success, generating millions of dollars for developers and two charities: Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The third bundle launched today, and has racked up nearly $100,000 in sales, as of this writing. That number is increasing every second, however, and will assuredly be out of date as soon as you read this. If you want to keep tabs on the money, the counter updates in real-time on the website. It's mesmerizing.

Humble Indie Bundle #3 includes Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVVVVV, Hammerfight and And Yet It Moves. All five games are built to run on Windows, Mac and Linux without DRM--and include Steam keys.

I've played all but Hammerfight, and can vouch for the quality of those four generously. The bundles tend to include the best of the best, so all this means is that I'm being introduced to something new and great.

Plus, if you've been looking for a finger destroyer, VVVVVV is it. I'm still having nightmares from beating that one, but with the addition of new levels, the temptation to jump back in again is strong.

The average contribution is currently $4.25, but pay-what-you-want means exactly that. If you don't have more, pay less.

If you're feeling generous, pony up! Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Perrson is at the top of the contributor leaderboards, having thrown $2,000 towards the feel good cause.

Hrmm maybe i'll pick these up, have been wanting to try VVVVV forever.

Never mind.

Awesome! Can't wait to pick these up!

VVVVVV is so great! Probably gonna get this even though I have 2 of them already, all for a good cause!

Sadly this round of games in the bundle isn't as appealing to me as the last ones. Plus i already have VVVVV. But good luck to them with their good cause

Cool. I have most of the games already so not for me this time.

And Yet it Moves is a fantastic game, I highly recommend supporting the HIB3!

Awesome stuff!

Notch was the top contributor the last time too as i recall, i bought the one that had aquaria in it but i had no interest in the last bundle(i cant remember the name,i want to say frozenbyte) i tried to buy this one too but seems they dont accept visa electron.

I have bought the last few Humble Bundles, but I have already bought most of this stuff on Steam.

:( You spelled VVVVVV incorrectly.

Already bought VVVVVV and "And Yet It Moves..." but I went ahead and threw in more money for it. Hopefully Clogs and Hammerfight is worth it. 
 
@buft: and yep, the Frozyenbyte bundle was the last one and the only one so far that I haven't bothered to install any of its games :P.

:( You spelled VVVVVV incorrectly.

Got all the previous bundles so I'll buy this one as well. Love VVVVV and AYIM. Also gonna give some luv to Crayon Physics and Cogs. That's really a great pack!

Love this. I've yet to see a charity game that I've not bought or enjoyed. I've spent $10 because I'm a little hard up at the moment after buying a computer. But it feels good to help a little. The option (default I might add) to pay $1 above the average is pure genius. Lets you be relatively cheap and yet generous plus it's only a dollar extra.

Wish I'd have known about the others before.

VVVVVV will make you SO ANGRY, but you'll feel great afterwards. My only warning: if you get to Veni Vidi Vici, prepare for powerful hate like you've never felt before.

missed the last two. will redeem myself now.

Fuck yeah, I love the HIB. Donating as we speak. Well, I write.

I was bummed about the Aquaria Quick Look because Vinny picked it up in a Steam Sale and didn't get it when it was in an earlier HIB. Why does Vinny hate charitable game bundles?
 
(That was sarcasm. I love Vinny)

I think I have all of those games except for Crayon Physics Deluxe, but what the hell, I should donate to the EFF anyway.

Picked it up this time

Been wanting to play Cogs VVVVV and AYIM for a while

Also worth mentioning that VVVVVV has been updated to version 2.0. Biggest change, except for the whole game being rewritten in C++ would be the fact that there are new levels. These from other indie developers, such as Notch.

Picked it up ass soon as I seen notch talking about it on Twitter. Love VVVVVV, more than happy to play through it again.

glad i'm following @humble on twitter so i saw this, though i may have seen it here anyway.  i decided during the frozenbyte bundle to put $100 to EFF plus pay whatever i felt the games are worth minus a small bundle percentage, so did that!

Hammerfight is surprisingly decent.. you control your vehicle entirely with mouse movements! Bananas

Ya, I donated last year to this. I like how this charity works so I love when they do these. I will definitely be donating to it again =)

Going to have to buy this. I shouldn't spend much money, but it doesn't look I will have to (although I will have to at least hit the average price paid or I'll feel bad).

VVVVVV is fantastic. Worth it for just hearing the music.

Anyone have any first hand experience how this stacks up against SMB (Length / Difficulty.)
 
Always wanted to play through this and now I have no excuses, but some of the later Meat Boy levels were treacherous.

:( You spelled VVVVVV incorrectly.

Looks interesting, especially VVVVVV.

FYI, if you're making a purchase, please try to contribute at least $1 or something more worthwhile for this. I've been overhearing that doing the transaction itself through something like Paypal costs the people at Humble Bundle at the very minimum $0.50 cents, causing them to effectively lose money on this whole thing for all those people who donate something like a single penny.

I don't even know if I'll play any of these, but I still bought it without any sort of hesitation, just like the three before.

I wish more charities would be included in this, I don't understand why all games related charitable events have to go to Child's Play, when there are so many other worthy charities out there.

You know I don't think that VVVVVV is THAT hard, it had a decent challenge but nothing more.
However, there IS that one collectable. You know the one I mean if you've played the game.
 
Anyway: Amazing deal, bought it even though I already own four of the games.

@Abendlaender said:

You know I don't think that VVVVVV is THAT hard, it had a decent challenge but nothing more.However, there IS that one collectable. You know the one I mean if you've played the game. Anyway: Amazing deal, bought it even though I already own four of the games.

I do remember that one collectible. Damn near broke an Apple keyboard going after it.

@Abendlaender said:

However, there IS that one collectable.

While doing that challenge in VVVVVV, I didn't think it was all that bad, just a bit of muscle memory required. That was until i finally got to the end and ended up on the wrong side of the block.

Didn't play it for weeks after that shit.

@RuthLoose:

Ahh, the memories. That was the very first collectable I ran into when I started the game and got a bit scared of what awaited me after it. :)

What's this about new levels? I guess I should take a look. Never did finish that 2nd run through on the reverse mode.

EDIT: @Abendlaender: There's always the No Death mode if you want a challenge. :) Ugh, and the Gravitron challenges.

I am proud to say that I beat VVVVVV. All of it. Ok, except being alive for 1 minute in the Gravitron. That is just ridiculous.

I was bummed about the Aquaria Quick Look because Vinny picked it up in a Steam Sale and didn't get it when it was in an earlier HIB. Why does Vinny hate charitable game bundles?  (That was sarcasm. I love Vinny)

paid about 2.50 for this

Anyone have any first hand experience how this stacks up against SMB (Length / Difficulty.)  Always wanted to play through this and now I have no excuses, but some of the later Meat Boy levels were treacherous.

Love Crayon Physics Deluxe and can wait to get a chance to play ^^^^^^ but hammer-fight is ridiculous, and not in a good way.  

First bundle where none of the game appeal to me. Sadly. Might give them away instead.

Got it mainly for And Yet It Moves because I don't want to play the Wii version I have. Paid $10.

I already have the two games I want, but with a steam key, I'll buy it anyway.

Bumble Indie Hundle's are great, shame I already own VVVVV. D=

@Adamsons said:

Anyone have any first hand experience how this stacks up against SMB (Length / Difficulty.)  Always wanted to play through this and now I have no excuses, but some of the later Meat Boy levels were treacherous.

Far shorter and far easier. I've beaten it in about two hours. Of course, there's several trinkets I haven't got, and Veni Vidi Vici is bloody murder (thankfully optional). That said, it's a decent challenge, and it's an absolutely superb game, probably the finest short game since Portal in my opinion. I've no problem with spending £5 on it.