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The Humble Indie Bundle Reaches $1M Goal, Source Releases Coming

AquariaSometime between when The Humble Indie Bundle was revealed over a week ago and when the initial purchases poured into the middle $100k range, four of the five developers participating promised if sales hit the million mark they would release their game’s source code for free. Well, there’s news today that the bundle sales have topped the goal, and as promised source code for Lugaru HD has been released, with ASAP releases in the works for Aquaria, Gish and Penumbra Overture.

The real-time stats on the page indicate that they’ve sold 121,439 bundles (so far, the sale is still on at time of this writing!) earning a total of $1,107,718–a $9.12 average contribution. Linux users were the most generous, paying an average of just under $15, while Mac users hovered around $10, with PC’ers parting with only 10% of the suggested price at $8.01 on average. Though perhaps the fabled $500 purchase came from a Linux owner which, combined with windows more than doubling the OS, would raise the average quite a bit.

Regardless, the only real losers in all of this are the ones contributing to the shockingly high 25% piracy rate, that’s about as blindly ignorant as it comes. I can’t (and won’t) leave you with bad news however, remember the charity element? Contributors chose to section off 31% of the earnings to donate towards Child’s Play and EFF, a total thus far of $342,942. Not bad for a week-long indie bundle promotion.

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