What kind of games are you playing on the mac?

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Hi,

i would be interested to know what kind of games are

a) the people playing on the mac - any links?
b) you in particular enjoying as developers.

To give it a start i do play the dig via scummvm again on my mac which works pretty well. :O)

Regards,

taumel

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Call me conceited, but the game I play most (by far) is GooBall. When you get good at it you can get really good. Can play those levels time and again, figuring out new ways to do things, breaking my own speed-records.

The music and the graphics are cute too.

d.

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Embarassingly enough the only game I’ve bought recently has been Gooball… I have no patience for games anymore and this one I could fiddle around with for stress relief.

I do enjoy DanLabGames and Freeverse’s stuff very much, and whatever free copies I get thrown at me. :slight_smile: (Can’t say enough good stuff about Oids X, in particular… I love(ed) that game http://www.xavagus.com/ )

With regards to DanLab, how can you not love his games when his code is like this?

With classic lines such as
“tempo = (time(NULL)) ;fpsCounter = realfps ;tempotxt++;”

It sure does get the job done, though! Wonderful games… :slight_smile:

-Jon

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Someone should tell this guy about Unity.

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I’ve gone off games lately, but I’m a fan of anything really, however I do tend to skim over the following :

kids games (shrek etc)
puzzle games (myst, enigmo)
console games (yes, all of them)

I do have a wish list of games which i never got round to buying, first and foremost, that revolution-republic thing game. My 800mhz g4 mac struggles to handle any post-2004 games :frowning: and intels make me sick :x .

And then I found unity… great job, except for that li’l issue with the price tag…

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@David
I know this feeling from gridwars… ;O)
Anyway what personally distracts me from playing gooball is the steering.

Regards,

taumel

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I understand that you find the steering imperfect. But if you learn it you can get nasty-good. It’s a learning-curve thing.

d.

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It’s a learning-curve thing.<<<

Which i don’t enjoy learning… :O/

But i agree the graphics and the sound are very nice.

Regards,

taumel

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Hah, just installed UAE and played Giana Sisters a bit…Marty where are you?! :O)

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Like a cheesy flashback scene from ‘Happy Days’, I smell a poll coming on. Over the past few years I’ve been addicted to Civ III. Lately my addiction has been treatable with large doses of sleeping pills and theorpy.

But as developers, we tend to make games we enjoy playing. I can see myself making a Civ III type game or maybe even some sort of FPS but not a sports game or generic console game.

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World of Warcraft. :wink:

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Call of Duty, C C Generals, HomeWorld 2, myst 5. There all realy, realy, realy good :stuck_out_tongue: Jeff

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OFFTOPIC

I don’t play games in mac because games in mac are really so much expensive that in PC, at least in spain.

I wold like to play Unreal Tournament 2004 in my 20" imac T_T, but it cost 3 times the pc version :confused:

/OFFTOPIC

Probably i will buy world of warcraft

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I haven’t gotten any games recently but here are some of the games I have on my compy:

AOE II
Deimos Rising
Marble Blast
SimCity 4 (My comp sucks to much to play any city bigger then the 5-10 windmill size at more then about 15 fps)
StepMania (universal compy DDR program)
Nanosaur 2

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I play the demo of gooball, and I have played marble blast and some other bundled game. I don’t really play games on my mac, I have a fast PC so it isn’t worth it. But if I was to buy games for it gooball would probably be the one. Perhaps other similar-style games as well.

-Jeremy

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I must admit to Boot Camping and finally, after years of being known as “that Roman nutter” on the Insidemacgames forums, finally playing my dream game under XP with beautiful speed and graphics …

Rome Total War.

Oops, was this about Mac games?

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I am really looking forward to Medieval: total war. This is really offtopic (lol) but do you recommend buying rome? While we are on the subject I highly recommend Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. Amazing game.

Ok, sorry for the digression…

-Jeremy

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Wait…that was you? I remember that guy, and I also remember how annoying he was because every topic had a R:TW reference :stuck_out_tongue:

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Medieval 2 Total War. :wink: And yes, I highly recommend RTW; it is arguably the best of the first three. The Gold Edition is out which includes the Barbarian Invasion expansion for under CDN$50 which is what I bought. Great game so far. My wait was worth it.

Back on topic now.[/b]

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Only Playing FPS’s onna PC. . .