What a confusingly labelled bundle they did. Game Dev Starter Pack doesn't say whether it is DRM free or steam or both (appears to be both).
Also, I already own this, is the AGFPRO whatever something different than that? Do one of the other items in this bundle include the premium or any of its other DLCs?

Same software, but for some reason they've put it together with another program as one 'item'. According to the Steam page, the Drone Kombat, Voxel Sculpt, Zombie FPS and Zombie Survival modules are in there somewhere- Drone Kombat is in the Sci-Fi pack and Voxel Sculpt is in the Fantasy pack, no idea where the zombie stuff is.

Weird. None of the bundles on that steam page seem to match that combination. Is it this one?
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/64908/

Wow. Steam Greenlight is going to be flooded with those in about two weeks, huh?

What program are the DLC packs for?

RPG Maker has been on sale quite often for a big discount, so no, this won't affect 'flooding Steam Greenlight' so much. A bit spike, yes maybe, but that's all.

Personally, I would rather write my own engine or use open source code if writing my own game. This way, I don't have any issues if I, for example, want to open source the entire codebase.

I am actually thinking of writing my own game. It will be a first person dungeon crawler (like Wizardry), and I plan on writing it in Python 3 using the curses module. (To get an idea of the sort of "graphics" the curses module is capable of, look at games like Nethack (without a tileset, just using ASCII) and Sanctuary RPG.)

Of course, I do have some interesting gameplay ideas that deviate from Wizardry; in particular, the growth system is going to be completely different.

(One note: If you are writing a game and for whatever reason want to keep it proprietary, remember to check the licenses of code you use; you won't be able to use GPL code and LGPL code has special requirements.)

There was a time when simulator parodies were amusing and indies were innovative. Now it's "lets make the shittiest possible games in the shortest amount of time and give free copies if people vote for it. And it has trading cards!"

You can probably make a game in 30 mins, make it grindy so they have to spend 2+ hours on it, and then make $1,000+ off of the trading cards alone. Which is sad because you have events like Mojam where pro companies make a game in 1 week for charity, and these games are better than a lot of titles with years in development. Point in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYWgNWYbA1U

So 7 days for a musician, coder, artist, animator (assuming each role is a different person) - at most under $3,000 to develop assuming they got around $100 a day each (cause developers like to price themselves as laborers rather than inventors). And you have this fun, silly, well developed game with local multiplayer, a single player AI, and is only missing online networking. THAT is how it's done.

Not "Oh, we're 5 guys and we need $300,000 a year to make this one game idea in our basement...or we have to go get a job and drop this project completely cause it's not really that good unless we're paid full time for it."

I thought this was a total skip for me but I like the style of Last Word.

I am still deciding between Spriter Pro DRM Free or the version that comes in this bundle... I have C2 BE (DRM Free) and would prefer that route... but anyway, the bundle looks good for a person that wants to spend his/her freetime learning before getting more into the next level.

REDVWIN

Appears to be so - though you get seperate steam keys, and a single "Game Dev Starter Pack" - which seems odd as its only about 1GB (and each of those programs is around 2)

The AGFPRO in the base tier is exactly what you have linked.

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...and according to THIS

"
AGFPRO content in this massive bundle includes AGFPRO, Premium, Voxel Sculpt, Drone Kombat, Zombie FPS and our brand NEW Zombie Survival Pack DLC!"

- only AGFPRO is listed on the bundle, so the rest is the BTA additions for next week I would presume

Yes, as per <span class="bold">amadren</span> giveaway.
I suspect the premium is on the $12 tier.

Only that is clearly listed but

- the Humble Bundle Sci-Fi DLC Pack says: "Also included is a Drone pack for Axis Game Factory"

- the Humble Bundle Fantasy DLC Pack says: "There are also two packs of DLC for Axis Game Factory". Doesn't says which ones

And according to amadren, the only things missing are the Zombie DLCs. You're probably right about those.

AH! - still on the BTA though - and not THAT clearly listed.
they'd have been better off listing them individually - particularly as the base tier "DLC pack" is for RPG maker - and neither of the starter pack games. O____o

Edit: honestly, thsts some dumb money-grubbing - looking at the page ALL the "DLC" packs look like they have nothing to do with AGFPRO or GameGuru whatsoever. I think there will be some angry steam trolls!

No argument there.

Jim Sterling's gonna have a field day with this one. Why doesn't HIB just throw in a whole bunch of Unity Store assets while they're at it?