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Humble Bundle 4 for android

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Although it's marketed as for Android, all games in this Humble Bundle are also compatible with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Pay a $1 more and you will get Steam keys too.

Except for Waking Mars, which as the site notes isn't currently on Steam.

Can anyone confirm if the games will show up on the Steam Linux beta?

This only depends on game makers not, but its safe to assume they will be added once they are on steam and steram goes out of beta.

It's pretty easy to get around the beta restrictions, you can find links to the Steam .deb (as hosted by Valve) on various sites.

Oh? I did this, and it kicks me out for not being "enrolled" in the beta. Is there a step I'm missing?

yeah, launch steam like this:

steam steam://open/friends

Since you can download them directly anyway - it doesn't really matter.

It does matter if you don't want to manually keep them up to date. And the Steam interface is far preferable if you want to install multiple games at once.

May be, on the other hand it's DRMed. Those who avoid DRM probably don't prefer it.

They usually offer Ubuntu Software center versions that are kept up to date.

Superbrothers is the only one that's currently listed in the Steam CDR as having Linux support: http://marlamin.com/cdr/search.php?s=linux&searchby=os

I know Splice was being tested for linux support a few weeks back last time I was in their office. (Specifically for inclusion in the humble bundle.) so if it's not there yet, hopefully it is soon?!

Awesome, I love Android humble bundles - I've bough them all so far. A great match for the Nexus 7 as well.

Crayon Physics Deluxe silently closes on startup after showing the Kloonigames logo on my Nexus 7. Runs fine on my Galaxy Nexus, however. A shame, would love to play this on a tablet.

I get the same crash/shutdown experience, but with the Galaxy Nexus. My Nexus is running 4.0.4.

Hang tight -- we're working on an update for this. This is the first time these games have appeared on Android and we're still ironing out some device-specific driver bugs.

Actually, while the silent crash happened to me too on my Nexus 7 with Crayon Physics Deluxe (I have cyanogenmod 10 rom), I tried restarting the device, then the game loaded fine.

I am having the same issue with Waking Mars, sent a mail to the developer. I hope they fix it, the trailer looks amazing.

Anyone tried Machinarium on their Android device yet? It's a Flash game if memory serves, and the Flash port to Android reportedly never did run all that well.

I haven't tried playing it since the experience will differ based on device. But I did have a look at the application package.

It is 170MB in size. Internally it is using Adobe Air which is a Flash container/runtime. The .swf file is only 24kb (yes really). There is a tiny amount of Java code basically just to get the AIR framework started. (Most Android apps have a bazillion libraries to do analytics, marketplaces, ads, social etc.)

Other than the 18MB Air runtime, the rest of the package is made up of 175 files for the game itself. These consist of a lot of audio in mp3 format, images (png and jpeg) and a handful of files whose format is not identifiable.

Just bought this Bundle, Machinarium runs beautifully on my Nexus7! Highly recommended!

System requirements and incomplete list of supported android devices: http://support.humblebundle.com/customer/portal/articles/812...

Anyone here with SGS3 purchased this humble bundle ? Because games are not appearing in the list, and when I open "Check compatibiltiy", the games are here but with [UNKNOWN SUPPORT] labels ... :(

I can't speak for the others, but one of the guys in the office was playing S&S on a Galaxy S III so at least that one works.

All of them are downloading and installing fine for me (on a CM10 nightly).

Anone know if there's there a mechanism for keeping the android games up to date besides manually checking and re-sideloading? Also interesting that most of these games aren't on google play.

They released an Android App with their first bundle that allows you to check for updates and install them easily.

https://www.humblebundle.com/app

And plus you have a webapp, where all the bought bundles are consolidated (all setups + soundtracks)

https://www.humblebundle.com/login

All of previous bundles worked on my Xperia S, so I take that current one will also be working fine with more powerful phones just fine.

I agree with one of those top contributors...they should start accepting bitcoins.

I'm getting Humble Bundle fatigue!

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