Dec 29, 2010 19:21 GMT  ·  By

The second Humble Indie Bundle, a special pack of independently-developed games, has just managed to rake in $1,823,301.66, with 232,849 people choosing their own price for five games.

This is the second year of existence for the Humble Indie Bundle, which is a joint effort between independent developers to raise awareness for both their own cause and for the Child's Play charity foundation, which gives games and consoles to children in hospitals around the USA.

The mechanics of the humble bundle are pretty simple, as the developers offer their games for whatever price the actual customer wants to pay.

As such, people can buy the bundle for a few cents or for a lot more.

While there will always be people that want a quick deal, a lot of people paid way more for the games.

The top contributor this year was someone called Nexus Scorpion, who paid $6,132.96 for the bundle.

Other developers like Notch, responsible for hit indie game Minecraft, or the Riot Games Dev Team, also paid over $1,000 for the bundle.

The average price paid, however, was $7.83, for the five games, Braid, Machinarium, Cortex Command, Osmos and Revenge of the Titan, which also earned customers the first humble indie bundle, consisting of six more games, including World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Penumbra Overture, Lugaru HD and Samorost 2.

Breaking things down even more, Linux users paid the most, with a $13.76 average, Mac users came in second, with $9.26, while Windows owners dropped $6.68.

The total of $1.8 million is an improvement over the first humble bundle, which earned $1.2 million last year.

The money will be split between the developers of the actual games, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Child's Play Charity.

Seeing as how this endeavor is becoming a major success story, expect the third bundle to appear at the end of next year.