Humble Bundle For Android 2
Last Month I blogged about the Humble Bundle, a great initiative to let people pay whatever they want for cool indie games. Today the 2nd Bundle for Android is here. The concept is simple: you pay whatever you want (even 0$ if you suck), and get 6 indie games for your Android (tablet/phone), but also windows, Linux, and Mac. Those are DRM free so you can copy them to all your devices, and you get to decide how your money is split between the devs of the game, charity, and the Humble Bundle team (who provide the promotion of the event as well as the bandwidth).
I jumped on this second bundle as one of the 6 games is a full RPG for Android which looked pretty cool: Avadon.
Sadly but understandably, this one is only available on tablets but not on phones. I gave it a quick try, and it looks good enough and quite interesting. I haven’t tried the other games yet except quickly trying to launch them. Actually I’m lying here, I’ve already spent hours on Cogs, which is the one that impressed me the most. It is a simple puzzle game, but with very cool “steampunk” types of 3D graphics. It’s casual but extremely entertaining. On its own, that game is worth the purchase to me. Check the video below for a description of all the games (6 in total):
You can buy and download the games from the humbleBundle page here.
Its cool, but I hope they drop android and get some cool games like previous bundles. I did bought them but can’t get them working on linux, they do work on my phone, and are awesome.
You make alot of grammar mistakes now.
Dude, you sounds like a spambot. Point me to the mistakes and I’ll fix them. I did proof-read the article and didn’t find anything obvious, but English isn’t my mother language.
Hey wololo,
Thanks for everything you do for the psp/vita scenes. I’ve wasted entirely too much time on Wagic ^^.
Just to clarify the hubmle android bundle 2 has been out for about ~8 days now, although the snuggletruck game was only added recently. And yes It’s very sad that we cant play avadon on mobile.
While promoting steam games I’ll let your readerbase know of a few lesser know budles that have recently launched.
http://www.indiegala.com/ Another pay what you want, support charity budle with steam keys. I’ve only played the SRPG Grotesque tactics which I love (think humerous fft) and had a small play around with Twin Sector which is a gravity based platformer/puzzler I guess. Think portal without the humour.
http://indie.gamingallthetime.com/ Again full steam support but this time a fixed price of $10 for 8 games (it was $8 if you preordered). I’ve only had a quick look at a few of these games but they seem quite solid. Runespell is an rpg similar to puzzle quest except it uses a poker variant for battles; Sol Survivor is Tower Defence; Avencast is an Action RPG. My favorite however is Booster Trooper which appears to be a 2.5d version of soldat.
Lastly the more well know http://www.indieroyale.com/ has released another bundle. 5 games, only 2 on steam (all desura) but I can’t comment because I didn’t grab it.
I thought you were of British decent? Anyway your grammar errors on this post are: ‘and not on phones’ (Replace ‘and’ with ‘but’) and the obvious one, ‘impressed me the much’ (Replace ‘the’ with ‘that’). Two small errors but they are errors, so… ahh… fix them… ?
Yeah, you are so right, I hardly understood the post. He is native french.
Updated, thanks.
I didn’t mean “impressed me that much”, I meant “impressed me the most”
🙂
What a fantastic idea!
but when I buy them, are they my so that I can share them with my friends or are they my so that they are just DRM free?
and if i have a bad internet connection and can’t download them (and bought), do I have any link to redownload them or anything??
The humble bundle and indie royale sites include drm free versions in addition to either/both steam desura so you could easily share them with your friends. I think they’d rather you didn’t however at the cheap prices (humble is pick your own so you can grab them for like $0.01 if you are feeling particularly evil.)
All have persistent download links (I save all the emails with those links in gmail) so you can redownload as much as you want assuming the company doesnt go bankrupt and close the servers.
so, if i have a bad internet connection and i want to download from my uncle’s computer I can use the links in the mail whenever i want?
I’m loving Avadon. sadly not got a tablet of any sort (or even android device) but makes a good “lazy” game on pc, like when i can’t be bothered to use the keyboard (or sitting back just using the wiimote.)