The Humble Bundle for Android (and Mac / Windows / Linux)

Post by pgeorgi » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 12:27 PM UTC

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We are currently beta testing an app that will organize your downloads and provide updates in a central spot for Humble Bundles (like the Amazon Marketplace), which should be ready for the public in the next couple of days. Additionally, the apps themselves will notify you if there is an update, akin to how Sparkle works on Mac OS X (Adium, et al. use this). Finally, you can download updates from our website similar…

> We are currently beta testing an app that will organize your downloads and provide updates in a central spot for Humble Bundles I'm sorry to be a downer here, but this really bothers me. The Android Market is built such that 1) each version of each app has reviews, 2) each version has permissions, 3) updates for all of my apps come from the same place, 4) the apps come from a single trusted source, signed , and 5)…

Post by morsch » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 1:32 PM UTC

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While I can understand not porting e.g. a DirectX game to Linux/OSX or any other program which heavily relies on OS specific libraries/features, I could not yet understand why not to port it when it is possible with little effort. I'd really like to hear an explanation from someone with knowledge in that matter, unfortunately the only example I can come up with at the moment from the top of my head is WoW/Warcraft/St…

http://braid-game.com/news/2008/08/misc-linux-questions/ That was 4 years ago. Braid finally got a port in 2010 for a previous Humble Bundle. Braid is just a small Indie game. Imagine trying to port some of the big budget productions we have now. There was Loki back in the late 90s early 2000s that did Linux ports, but they didn't last long.

Post by jamesgeck0 » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 2:34 PM UTC

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I think ultimately the solution is for the Humble people to talk to Google - and to Apple, for that matter - and say "we do this thing, it makes a lot of money, how can we do it through your servers?". If they can get the owners of the official marketplaces interested then something will happen.

They could add a slider to control the percentage of your purchase prize which goes to the App Store owner. Except you can't adjust the slider, since it's fixed at 30%. Ouch. I'd much rather continue giving those 30% to the EFF.

Post by cube13 » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 3:47 PM UTC

moxiemk1 wrote: post #11

Now I know what Android users feel like when people announce endless iPhone-only mobile apps. I was super bummed that I missed the last Humble Bundle, since it was chock full of games I had been meaning to buy. This one is smaller, though, and the having the "cool" feature targeted at a group I'm not in makes me feel like the bundle isn't really worth paying attention to. This is the first time I have ever felt left…

Post by mdwrigh2 » Wed, Feb 01, 2012, 8:48 PM UTC

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It makes sense to include Android in the Humble Bundle, since it is the only popular PC platform that was not already included. It is not really possible to deliver a iOS or WP7 app without DRM, so they cannot extend the offer to applicances.

Every previous bundle has included Steam keys, which aren't DRM free.