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Mac Freeware Games!
Sceptre
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Lately I have been stranded away from my adorable and lovable gaming PC. However, in my possession is one slightly sullied macbook, and I feel the need to get some serious gaming done. More importantly, it should be free! (Or at least have a trial.)
Here are some of the mac games that I already know about and love:
N
In N, the player controls a ninja who runs and jumps around levels, picks up gold, opens and closes doors through switches, and avoids enemies in an attempt to trigger a switch which opens an exit door, and get to it safely. Gameplay involves three keys—moving left, moving right, and jumping. Combination of these moves on various types of terrain allows the ninja to do much more than simply run and jump, such as jumping from wall to wall and onto platforms.
I love N to death, and it's a perfect time waster. It's blend of instant accessibility and mind bendingly hard platforming challenges makes it a real treat.
Get it HERE!
Ur Quan Masters
The Ur-Quan Masters is a re-make of the beloved Star Control 2. In it, you commandeer a massive starship on an epic adventure across the universe to save humanity. Along the way you have to exploit planet's for resources, engage in daring diplomatic missions with unique alien species and there's also the occasional intergalactic rumble for you to get involved in. Easily one of the most sprawling epic games ever conceived.
SC2 is generally regarded as the best of the trilogy and the reason for the series' devoted fanbase. It added a large number of species and ship types to the already diverse cast and replaced the first game's strategy-based scenarios with a story-driven space exploration adventure game that included diplomacy with the inhabitants of the galaxy, some resource-gathering sub-sections, and instances of the mêlée combat of the first game whenever diplomacy failed.
Get it HERE.
Cave Story
Cave Story, or Doukutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware PC side-scrolling platformer game developed by Studio Pixel . It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations and will have an official translation script published sometime in the near future.
The developer, Pixel spent five years making this game as fun and as great as it is by adding solid controls, smooth gameplay, a great cast of characters and dialogue, an interesting plot, good music and beautiful old-school 2-D artwork. And on top of all this added multiple endings, several boss battles, tons of items to collect, all kinds of added secret bonuses and special challenges, various and considerably different methods of playing through the game depending on your actions, competition ranking features and an extremely high replay value. For a freeware game it is fairly lengthy too.
I love Cave Story. I know it's held in pretty high regard here on the forums, but even still, it deserves a mention.
Get it HERE!
So, what other fun free mac games do you guys enjoy?
Here are some of the mac games that I already know about and love:
N
In N, the player controls a ninja who runs and jumps around levels, picks up gold, opens and closes doors through switches, and avoids enemies in an attempt to trigger a switch which opens an exit door, and get to it safely. Gameplay involves three keys—moving left, moving right, and jumping. Combination of these moves on various types of terrain allows the ninja to do much more than simply run and jump, such as jumping from wall to wall and onto platforms.
I love N to death, and it's a perfect time waster. It's blend of instant accessibility and mind bendingly hard platforming challenges makes it a real treat.
Get it HERE!
Ur Quan Masters
The Ur-Quan Masters is a re-make of the beloved Star Control 2. In it, you commandeer a massive starship on an epic adventure across the universe to save humanity. Along the way you have to exploit planet's for resources, engage in daring diplomatic missions with unique alien species and there's also the occasional intergalactic rumble for you to get involved in. Easily one of the most sprawling epic games ever conceived.
SC2 is generally regarded as the best of the trilogy and the reason for the series' devoted fanbase. It added a large number of species and ship types to the already diverse cast and replaced the first game's strategy-based scenarios with a story-driven space exploration adventure game that included diplomacy with the inhabitants of the galaxy, some resource-gathering sub-sections, and instances of the mêlée combat of the first game whenever diplomacy failed.
Get it HERE.
Cave Story
Cave Story, or Doukutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware PC side-scrolling platformer game developed by Studio Pixel . It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations and will have an official translation script published sometime in the near future.
The developer, Pixel spent five years making this game as fun and as great as it is by adding solid controls, smooth gameplay, a great cast of characters and dialogue, an interesting plot, good music and beautiful old-school 2-D artwork. And on top of all this added multiple endings, several boss battles, tons of items to collect, all kinds of added secret bonuses and special challenges, various and considerably different methods of playing through the game depending on your actions, competition ranking features and an extremely high replay value. For a freeware game it is fairly lengthy too.
I love Cave Story. I know it's held in pretty high regard here on the forums, but even still, it deserves a mention.
Get it HERE!
So, what other fun free mac games do you guys enjoy?
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Some dudes got together one day and though, hey, wouldn't it be great to play these kickin' rad games on modern systems? So they developed something called Aleph One, that basically allows you to play the Marathon games on your fancy intel chip mac.
Then, bungie, the ever awesome awesometown inhabitors they are, went ahead and released the entire series for free.
Go here to get it.
XBL - Follow Freeman
Here's what it looks like in action:
I can't provide links as I'm just going through my game apps folder, but I have:
Free Demos + Unlock full version with cash money
Aquaria - wonderful underwater mouse based metroid-esque game.
Blockland - Weird Lego game, there is a thread here about it
Escape Velocity Nova - superb mix of Elite (4X) and Asteroids. Highly recommended.
DEFCON - Nuclear War 101
Uplink - Hacking simulator
GISH - goo platformer.
Peggle - scarily addictive, kinda empty
Weird Worlds - great game that's elite cross with a board game. Like the board game SPIVS if anyone played that.
World of Goo - do I need to say anything?
Freeware
Cave Story - 2D platforming glory
Plasma Pong - Pong + Plasma Physics
Puzzles.app - This is a great little puzzle collection with slitherlink and picross puzzles.
Quinn - Tetris Clone, but poooolished
n - 2S platformer
Freeware Shoot em ups
These are pretty fucking classy and you should really check them out
GridRunner - of Space giraffe fame.
Swarm Racer - a wierd racing game where you race a swarm (not a Shump)
A2K
Torus Trooper
Gr
Gridwars - Geometery Wars 1 clone. But a *lot* better and deeper (turns black hole farming into an art) GeoWars 2 beats it though.
minw.app - Wario Ware meets a shump.
EDIT: Oh and for the record all these work (more or less) with a final model iBook, so anything better than that will be fine.
2009 is a year of Updates - one every Monday. Hopefully. xx
Dwarf Fortress is pretty swank too.
Nethack is the classic dungeon crawler that you've probably wasted too much of your time on already, but you can now do it on your Mac!
Awesome.
XBL - Follow Freeman
I'm downloading the demo now.
Kick ass, Lugaru you are a ninja rabbit who must use kung fu to kill other rabbits and wolves.
I wish they would put it up on steam, I would buy it in a heart beat.
Cliff Johnson's puzzle games for Mac/Windows.
3 in Three and The Fool's Errand are two of the finest games I have ever played.
They're also hard like a bitch.
twitch.tv/Taramoor
@TaramoorPlays
Taramoor on Youtube
It is well worth the $25 you will spend on it once you are hooked
:winky:
twitch.tv/Taramoor
@TaramoorPlays
Taramoor on Youtube
And the demo for the the new game, The Fool and His Money, is up too. It has the Prologue and the first five puzzles.
I thought about making a thread just for it, but it'd probably get buried in the deluge of chat threads.
http://www.thefoolandhismoney.com/05-the-fool-and-his-money/index.htm (Download link's at the bottom.)
Wingnuts 1 is available for download on Freeverse's site for free, and is a quite damn nice shooter. (Think a updated version of Time Pilot with a sense of humour.)
http://www.freeverse.com/games/game/?id=3010&view=goodies
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about the only roguelike I can stand to play, and this one is really good!
I think the default keys for movement are the arrows for the cardinal directions and some of the letters for diagonal movement; you shouldn't have any problems.
It seems every time I get close to finishing the tutorial, some horrible swarm of pirates will attack me, or Ill get stuck in the cross fire of two massive ships.
And as far as I can tell, when you die, that's it, game over.
I'd make a backup of that. They got shut down by Atari, who have Pong trademarked, so the site is no longer up.
It's been so long since I've played the demo I can't quite remember what it's like. But rather than have the demo end at a certain point a Captain keeps attacking you.
Never the less, your starting ship can't hold it's own in a fight. Think of it like Elite rather than asteroids.
2009 is a year of Updates - one every Monday. Hopefully. xx
Nifty little platformer/shooter combination that's pure multiplayer. Think if you mixed classic platforming goodness with an FPS, then add a grappling hook. The graphics are surprisingly good despite being rather cute (if you can handle 2D). Runs great on macs, definitely worth a look.
Wolfenstein: ET
Yep, runs great on a Mac. Class based FPS goodness. It's a pretty solid game in general, fun to play. My only real gripe is the fact that every damned server has to run a bunch of different mods and shit that you have to download. The upside to this, is that you usually find a server you like and stick with it, so you get to know the players.
There are several different roguelikes that run fine on macs too.
Dwarf Fortress has a Mac version. I don't think I have to say anything about this one here, which is part of why I love you guys.
Angband is also available on Mac. It's a very bread and butter roguelike, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The surface world is the town, and you spend the majority of your time down in the dungeons. I think the dungeon goes down 100 levels, but I'm not positive.
Man, I need to re-buy (fucking license codes) that sometime and try the new mods. I'd love if the next Mass Effect basically included EV for the ship segment.
No, I definitely bought the full game.
20 new free games have been entered in the uDevGames competition hosted by iDevGames.com
I'm half of the dev team for uDeadGame an action packed 3D zombie romp
where you control the zombies and devour the flesh of the living in 32 levels.
You have until March 12th to vote and send in feedback for all the games,
so get your download power finger clicking, and caffeine drink of choice flowing,
for some all night, or all week free Mac gaming.
I'll poke my head in here every now and then so if you have some feedback for me or the
other devs, post, and I'll be glad to respond or bring your worthy words to their attention.
Have fun!