Humble Bundle For Android 2 Goes Live

spidweb writes "The latest Humble Bundle has gone live, with five new games for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Android. It consists of Zen Bound 2, Avadon: The Black Fortress, Canabalt, and Cogs, with Swords & Soldiers thrown in for anyone who pays at least the average. As always, the games are pay-what-you-want and DRM-free, and this is the initial Linux and Android release for many of them. Of course, as is the tradition with Humble Bundles, other games are likely to be added on later."

Comments

Waiting for the other shoe to drop

[Daniel Phillips]

Waiting for the other shoe to drop: a competitor to Humble Bundle. To prove that the market is really as vibrant as it seems.

Re:Waiting for the other shoe to drop

[Anonymous Coward]

There have been a few... Desura runs Indie Royale, Get Games did littleBIGbunch, there's another group called Indie Gala that's done something similar, and there's been a couple of other various indie game bundles that have run as well.

Re:Waiting for the other shoe to drop

[sourcerror]

There are quite a lot of them, here's a nice summary:
http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/qtna1/upcoming_bundles/

Indie Royale
Indie Gala
Indie Underdog pack
Gamedev Bundle
Indie Facekick

I've bought a few of the Indie Royale packs, and there's always a game I never heard of that is pleasently surprising me. At the moment they're offering Hard Reset, which is quality wise an AAA game. In January they offered Nuclear Dawn, which is almost AAA quality. I bought both of these before they went on sale.

Vertex Dispenser is a nice casual action/strategy game. If you like Darwinia, you'll like this too.

Re:Poor.

[mwvdlee]

I bought it a few days ago, just for Zen Bound 2 (which pretty much sealed the deal immediately).
Haven't tried Cogs, but I bought it for PC in a bundle a few months ago and it was good fun for a while. I don't care much for the other games.
The benefit of "pay what you want" is that, in this case, I just paid for Zen Bound 2 and charity, not for the other games.
Avadon only works on tablets, so be aware of that if you only have a phone.

I've got it

[Eraesr]

Canabalt is a side scroller game that shows a character running across rooftops and through buildings. You can only control the jumping of the character, which must be used to jump over gaps and evade obstacles. The goal is to cover as much distance as possible without falling into some kind of pit or smacking straight into a wall. It's a really simple but a fun concept. It does trigger that "Ok, just one more go" thing every time you've stumbled in your run.
Cogs is a nicely designed puzzler game, but in the end it's just a sliding blocks puzzle. They do some interesting things with it, but in all honesty, these types of puzzles frustrate me more than I enjoy them. It's all dressed up in an very steam-punk type of thing and there are quite a few original things in there but the core concept of the game will probably lose my attention fairly quicly.
Zen Bound 2's menu system looks absolutely impressive. When I tap the "new game" button (on my HTC Sensation) it shows a black screen and nothing more seems to happen. Maybe I'll try this one on Windows later, as it does seem like an interesting game.
Haven't tried or looked much at the Avadon game yet. Also be aware that it won't run on Android phones, only on Android tablets. Supposedly it's some kind of RPG type of game.
I haven't played Swords & Soldiers on Android or PC yet, but I did play it quite a bit on the Wii, where it was originally released a few years back. It's definitely a fun game with good production value. It's a strategic side-scroller game where you have a base on the left side of the playing field and the enemy starts all the way to the right. You can build soldiers that slowly march towards the other side of the playing field. As they encounter enemy soldiers they duke it out and the survivor moves on. It's not unlike DOTA or LoL in that aspect. You can aid your own soldiers by using lightning bolt blasts or healing spells and such.

Re:I've got it

[headLITE]

Seconding that statement about Avadon. It's one of the best CRPGs available for tablets. It's still great on PC, especially if you don't need a multi million dollar graphics budget in your games. Admittedly the graphics are a weak point, the developer has been making this kind of game for a long time (since the 90ies) and I remember seeing some of the sprites and tiles used in Avadon in some very old games :) Name is "Spiderweb Software", if you've been around long enough you may remember Exile: Escape from The Pit that is going to get its second remake this April (or a couple months ago if you're on a Mac).

Zen Bound 2 is also an awesome game, but it kind of works better on a tablet as touching the object you're wrapping feels much more natural. Along with Canabalt, Zen Bound is one of the games that really stood out when they initially appeared on iOS. Canabalt has the "problem" that there are tons of side scrolling running games on tablets now.

Re:Slashvert

[Daniel Phillips]

Did I miss something, or don't they even try to disguise advertisement on /. anymore? o_O

See, this Humble Bundle thing benefits Slashdotters in general, whether they buy it or not. Slashdot also tends to advertise Android (aka Linux). Any objections about that?

Re:Slashvert

[RivenAleem]

I got the email to say that the new bundle as out. I immediately though "I'll keep an eye out for /. so I'll get some reviews of the games included"

God forbid we avoid discussing anything because it might appear to advertise the product that comprises the topic of discussion.

Canabalt port was released on C64 Cartridge too

[Anonymous Coward]

I got Canabalt on C64 Cartridge here

http://www.rgcd.co.uk/p/shop.html

It was miniaturized to 16K to use a less expensive EEPROM.
And was selected after winning a demo scene game completion
the guy hand solders and assembles each cartridge.