The Humble Indie Bundles or Humble Bundles are a series of game bundles, that are sold and distributed online at a price determined by the purchaser. The games are multi-platform, DRM-free, and independently developed, and buyers can set the revenue split between the developers, charities and humble bundle organizers.
The first bundle was organized and managed by Wolfire Games. Beginning with the second bundle a separate company spun-off, Humble Bundle, Inc., with the sole purpose of making bundles. The bundles are made available for purchase during limited time frames. Purchasers are able to set how much they wish to pay for the bundles and how they want their money to be distributed between developers of the games, Humble Tip (which organizes the promotion) and charities, some of which have included: Child's Play, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Red Cross. The games in the bundles run on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux-based systems and are digitally distributed initially without digital rights management (DRM) controls.[1] Although the bundles are still advertised as DRM-free, three recently included games require product keys for their multi-player modes, generally considered a form of DRM. Seven bundle drives have been held to date, breaking over $7 million in total sale and charitable donations.
