[Android Apps and Games] Serj Alexandrov:
link (for those who don't want to read): humblebundle.com

(for those of you who do :D read on)

The Humble Bundle Is on a time limit and will end on the 13th February

So the Humble Indie Bundle has finally made its way over too Android and I must say its taken longer that I was expecting as most of the mobile game developers are independent developers so it only makes sense to collaborate with the Humble Bundle team.

First things first a bit of house keeping, so to speak. I know that several threads have already popped up in various corners of our XDA world and I'm sure they will continue but I wanted to place this thread here as the bundle applies to nearly every android device. I say every because I haven't tested every android device and I'm sure the Humble Bundle team haven't either, so I encourage you all to go and check the various forums for your specific device too see if there are any issues with the bundle. And if there isn't, make one don't moan on this thread that your device doesn't work, the idea of this community is to work as a community to solve the problems, that's the whole idea behind open sourcing :mad: . Rant over :cool: .

Right back to the Bundle. To those of you unfamiliar to the Humble Indie Bundle I will endeavour to explain it within the best of my abilities. The idea behind it is to gather together a collection of top quality games from several independent game developers and "bundle" them together in a package that you decide how much to pay. That statement is quite literal by the way, YOU the user decide how much YOU want to pay, it's a very interesting concept which I really wish more people would take on. It gives game developers an idea of how people truly value their games, now I completely agree with the argument that many of you would make at this point, yes it could lead to game developers being ripped off majorly.

And you would probably be correct in thinking so, because you set the price you could only spend 10p on the whole package and still get most of the top quality games, but who are you really cheating here. If everyone took this opinion then development would stop and no-one would bother producing indie games, and at that point you get a monopoly with the big corporations in charge which will just lead to the same s*** being produced over and over again, just with a different front.

Back to the matter at hand. The bundle comes with 4 games, Anomoly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, EDGE and World of Goo. The Humble Team also supports two charities Child's Play and EFF, please look up both of these and show support even if you don't purchase the bundle. When you buy the bundle as I've said before, you choose the amount you pay, but you can also choose the distribution of that amount, but it's all explained on their website so I don't think I need to go into the technical side of it. When it comes to the games, you all have Google look up what the games various developers say about it trust me they'll do their games a lot more justice than I ever would (I will include links to the games trailers at the bottom though).

There is one thing when it comes to the purchasing of the bundle. To get all 4 games you need to pay above the average price to get World of Goo, now this price fluctuates naturally in accordance to what people are paying (at the time of writing this the average price is: $5.90). Another thing that may occur is that additional games may be added to the bundle, this has happened in the past with several of the other bundles. But don't worry, if you've already bought the bundle that additional games are included (unless their bound by the same constraints as World of Goo, but if you've paid above the average at the time of purchase you'll still get all the games, email them if you need any additional info, their technical support is superb).

When you purchase this Bundle your not just purchasing the android APKs, the bundle also includes ALL the games for Linux, Windows or *shudder* Mac. So your essentially getting 8 games (4 Android games and the same 4 on PC) all DRM free so you can install them as many times as you want on as many machines as you want. But please this isn't just an excuse to stick them up on a file sharing site, that just leads back to the same problem with developers not getting the share they deserve.

In closing, I think that this Bundle is a genius idea and I can really see things like this taking off for android and I really want android to become the next big mobile gaming device because, lets be frank, android can access hardware iOS users could only dream of. So please go and show your support, or just take a look at it, watch the videos (I'm sure they'll win you over). All I can say now is roll on Humble Android Bundle 2 (or just add more games to the current).

(There would be trailers here but I am unable as I am relatively new to XDA, Long time reader, New to posting, but the trailers aren't hard to find their all on the website)