You can now preorder the new Indie Royale bundle

Is the pre-order price usually cheaper than the actual, when the bundle is on sale?

Normally I do, just because I can spare an extra dollar for the devs and I'm certain I'd buy it anyway. But I already own Nuclear Dawn (excellent btw), and their past bundle was sorta meh, so I'll be waiting to see if I actually want this bundle.

Since they're only giving chiptune music as a pre-order bonus I"m not that excited about it either.

Though is it wise for them to do the HIB thing of 'revealing' games later? That actually might work better in their favor for people wanting to pre-order.

If Q.U.B.E., INSTANT PREORDER. Actually, if not Q.U.B.E., instant preorder; ten pounds going to indie developers that deserve it, and a nice chiptune album to boot, along with some satisfaction for my latent OCPD that requires that I order every bundle, ever.

I'm still more excited for the alpha bundle, though, considering that some games have inadvertently already been confirmed for it.

If it is EDGE, that's be awesome. I loved Toki Tori and RUSH.

No.
"none of the New Year's Bundle games have been featured in previous Royale/Humble bundles."

Maybe Tobe's Vertical Adventure?

My guess is Limbo personally. Though that may be more of a puzzle then a platformer.

Tidalis has multiplayer as well. So I'd say it's not it.

That looks awesome! Let's hope it's that game!

skyrim is not an indie game

SKYRIM AWAITS YOU!

Because they hope the normal user is thinking.... yeaaah fixed price for unknown games and if I dont preorder it I dont receive game soon as possible.... and when you dont preorder the price can rise to one milion dolars for bundle if you come too late :)

IndieRoyale, you are doing it wrong! :D

1st: Are you so poor or you just don't want to get them 1$ extra?
2nd: Preordering is like beating average price, so you get extras. They are not as good as the ones in the Humble Bundle, but they are quite nice to have.

Well in my time zone it will probably launch around 4am to 6am meaning I will be asleep and by the time I am up and reading to buy it may well be over $4, sure it may go back down below but it also may not and if it does there is a chance you will miss it. Pre-ordering means you are getting it at "min +1" when if you wait you could get it between "min" and "min +1" (a win if you didn't pre-order) or "min +1 +x" (a loss of you didn't pre-order), so you are taking a gamble.

They only introduced the preordering due to their lack of serverpower at launchtime. It is only intended for those that would buy it directly when it launches. So your benefit is not a cheaper price or anything else - it's just to satisfy your "NEED IT BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE"-addiction. ;)
There is no real reason to preorder it. Just wait for the release like everybody else.

It is odd, but as I almost paid $5 for ND during the sale, $4 for that, three other random games and a nice chiptune album didn't sound so bad for me. And if it opens during the weekend, I'm going to be away and not be able to snipe it at the lower price. And it's a whole dollar we're talking about here...

There's no preview page for RUSH or Critical Mass, so I think those are out. There are preview pages for the other 3 though, so those are always possibilities

I hope not... I already own all of those. X_X

http://www.indieroyale.com/games/preview/qube

I can't even think of any good reason that somebody thinks Q.U.B.E. is included in this bundle. It is not featured on Steam and it was just released on Desura. It has no MAC support either.

So... maybe the platformer is Trine 2. -.-

More?

Nuclear dawn is worth more than 4 bucks easy. I've only played a few rounds but it's REALLY well made.

Terraria is only PC and the description says PC/Mac.

Rochard ist far too new. Most of the games everybody suggests really don't fit in a Indie Royale. Just take a look at the titles in the last IRs. I expect that many people here will be disappointed with the final titles. That doesn't mean it will be a bad bundle, but most people seem to have too high expectations.

Np, Nuclear Dawn is confirmed to be in the bundle ;)

IndieRoyal doesnt seem to care about Mac or Linux users. only HumbleBundle requires their games to work on all 3 major OS, so it could totally be on IndieRoyal someday

I guess the chances aren't that bad for future bundles. Most games of the last HIB released their Mac/Linux support with the bundle.

would be somewhat smart of them to do. the bundle doesnt seem to go above $4, and people might not buy once they actually see the games. so making pre-orders better might help them