Nice to see that Uplink was ported to Android! It's an interesting and fun game where you get to play the kind of fictional hacker portrayed in hollywood movies, working against the clock to get the data without being tracked.
I've gotten nearly all the recent humble bundles. They've been increasingly good.
It must be a wonderful feeling to work on software and bizdev for them, too. You know you're making money, helping developers and artists, and giving to charity. I hope the people in charge are doing well.
They've been great and I got most of them too, including this one, but it's not better than the first Android bundle with Osmos and the World of Goo. Osmos alone is spectacularly good, it's the best indie game I've ever played -- the idea, the mechanics, the music... it's incredible (no, I don't know the author but I bought it three times).
Wow looks great.. You might also enjoy Orbital for game boy advance.. Relaxing and frustrating but with kind of similar gameplay, albeit more focussed on gravity slingshotting.
Just pointing this out, for those unfamiliar with the Android Humble Bundles, you also get the Mac, Windows and Linux versions. So it's worth getting even if you don't have any android devices :).
Actually, since the focus for the Android bundles is Android and not the other platforms, IMO they aren't worth getting. The Android bundles always have older, lower end titles because of the bias toward mobile.
Once again that's the case. I can't speak for anyone else but I've had most of these titles for one to two years on my desktop and phone, and I only paid a dollar or less for them at the time. That's rarely the case with the real Humble bundles, where you frequently have a chance to pick up a newer high profile indie title for cheap.
In fact, the youngest title in this bundle is over a year and a half old. Average is about 2-4 years, with Uplink taking the cake as an 11 year old title. I typically avoid the Android indie bundles for that reason. Judging by the sales numbers for those bundles vs the regular bundles, I'm hardly the only one. Without an Android device, these bundles offer little in the way of new content.
But it's pay what you want! You pay whatever you think it's worth! You can pay virtually nothing if you want to.
[EDIT] Also, who cares how old they are? Humble Bundle had Psychonauts, a 7 year old game. Sure, maybe they're not as good, but that's why you pay less for them.
I can pay whatever I want, but typically unless I'm motivated enough to pay above average, I don't participate. Just because I can pay virtually nothing and get virtually nothing doesn't mean I want to do that. I would rather just not buy it.
HIB V also had Super Meat Boy, Braid, Amnesia and Limbo which is why it did so well. Also it had two titles released this year. It had as many amazing, critically acclaimed titles as this bundle has titles, period. I didn't buy it for the same reason, but I can see why it did so well. One older title had no chance of sinking it, especially one as good as Psychonauts.
The only notable part about the Android bundles tend to be the Android ports themselves. Everything else is old hat. This bundle will most likely struggle to break $1 million in sales if it even makes it there, like all the Android-focused Humble Indie Bundles. That isn't a coincidence.
Fair enough I guess. I agree that the games aren't as good as the typical indie bundle games, and not as recent, and it probably won't do nearly as well as the main humble bundles. But they're still pretty good games, and if you've never played them before they're probably worth paying a little bit for them, even if it's less than a typical humble bundle (that's exactly what I did).
I guess the main point I was making was that even though it's called an "Android" bundle, if you're interested in the games at all, and you don't have an Android device, you should totally get it anyway for however much you want to pay. I think it's worth paying above the average (at the moment it's $6.05) for the extra game as well (Spirits), but that's up to you.
Brilliant move to allow top contributors to link their twitter accounts to publicly posted buys. Encourages big-money contributions from those who want some exposure and builds a sense of community. I am now following Erica Joy, Gaijin Games Expired Popsicle (Cliff) and Linux Gamers
Really great games as usual, but make sure you check out the system requirements. Most of them can be run on phone sized screens but a couple of them, such as Uplink and Space Chem, will only work on tablet screens 5" or larger.
The two games that interest me from this bundle, Spacechem and Uplink, were already in previous bundles (though not for android) so I think I'll be passing on this one even though I've bought most of the previous ones.
They've been doing that for a while, it encourages them to create bundles from other people's games rather than just their own. It's good press for the rest of the indie community!
