Humble Bundle has announced plans to move into the game publishing business with the launch of a new multi-platform publishing and funding initiative. The company described the program as "a multi-million-dollar investment for games large and small," and said it will begin with seven games "across a range of genres and styles, for PC, console, and mobile platforms."
"What publishing allows us to do differently is to help developers prior to release," said publishing lead John Polson. "It also helps us guarantee eager gamers will get to play some awesome games, each affixed with the trusted Humble brand of quality we are known for."
As a digital games distributor, Humble Bundle has accumulated more than ten million customers since it went live in 2010, and it also offers a Humble Partners affiliate program to help expose its games to new audiences, including on Twitch and YouTube. But Polson said there's more to the service than simply helping with "discoverability."
"In a way, you could say we are an 'a la carte publisher,' allowing developers to choose what they want out of publishing through us. We then offer funding based on the services they need," he explained. "We offer a wide range of publisher services with trusted teams to cover ports, marketing, localization, and everything a developer would need to release in today’s global games market."
Humble's debut publishing lineup will include:
A Hat in Time [2017] – The perfect ode to old-school 3D platformers, with a hat-swapping spin
HackyZack [Spring 2017] – A sticker-collecting, precision-platforming, puzzle-stunt game
Ikenfell [Summer 2018] – A heartwarming turn-based RPG about a school of magic and its troublesome students
Keyboard Sports [Autumn 2017] – A cheeky adventure with Master QWERTY that uses the entire keyboard
No Truce with the Furies [Fall 2017] – An isometric role playing game that blends cop show antics with a genre busting “fantastic realism” setting, offering absurd new heights of non-combat gameplay for RPG fans
Scorn [Q4 2017] – Gripping first-person survival horror set in a nightmarish universe
Staxel [Q3 2017]– Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world
"All of our games will be ‘presented by Humble Bundle,’ carrying a seal of quality and curation that fans have come to expect. For each aspect of publishing, developers can choose the services they need, making Humble Bundle a truly modern and adaptable publisher.”
Across Humble Bundle’s bundles, Store, Monthly subscription, and other developer services, they offer multiple ways to help devs create buzz and get to market.
Humble will be evaluating more games for possible publishing deals at GDC and PAX East and is accepting submissions from developers.
Thought they were doing this for a while now? Guess I mixed them up.
Either way, good thing for the indie scene and it might give us better games in the end.
Quite like the HB, one of the few left that still care about the quality in their bundles. Sure they might have games I dislike/hate... but at least they aren't the scamtastic adventures of Steam Greenlight.
Btw what was that initiative called that was going to port classics and such, the one who came up with HB monthly bundle started that up? Hope that will be all they said it would be.
(I know not anything to do with HB, but was hoping someone remembered the name)
its not really about bundles per se ... just one company (know for and named after bundles) doing full publishing now (kinda like indiegala did recently) ... imo not really material to discussion about bundles themselves
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