While no one was looking, yet another lauded indie game was released for Mac: Bastion is available in the MAS right now, and coming to Steam next week.
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Bastion for Mac
Started by Janichsan, Apr 27 2012 01:22 AM
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 01:22 AM
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 04:39 AM
Sweet Bastet, that's an amazingly pretty pretty game.
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 07:05 AM
I saw that too, though I was initially trying to see if they had Blades of Time for less than Steam...
Looks great! What about Legendary Heroes? That looks interesting too. Anyone played it?
LH: Just looked at some gameplay footage--Heroes of Newerth *light*???
Looks great! What about Legendary Heroes? That looks interesting too. Anyone played it?
LH: Just looked at some gameplay footage--Heroes of Newerth *light*???
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 12:27 PM
Bastion is utterly gorgeous, and with the world appearing as you walk about the way it does, it's got that extra visual twist to proceedings.
Then there's the narrator and the music. Everything's great.
Coming to SteamPlay soon too. So if you prefer that...
Then there's the narrator and the music. Everything's great.
Coming to SteamPlay soon too. So if you prefer that...
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 12:30 PM
I played through the Chrome version, but bought the PC version during last Steam sale too so might replay the Mac version when I have the time.
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Posted 27 April 2012 - 06:04 PM
Tried the PC demo of Bastion. Liked the music a lot and the style, but wasn't interested enough to buy it. A Mac version might tempt me though.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 08:15 AM
This is great. I was planning on buying the Windows version and bootcamping it. (Though I probably would have gotten it on Steam so no harm done.)
Note: many MAS reviewers are having problems on some MacBooks. The company is promising a fix, but it might pay to be patient. Check the customer reviews to see if your model is mentioned as working or not.
Note: many MAS reviewers are having problems on some MacBooks. The company is promising a fix, but it might pay to be patient. Check the customer reviews to see if your model is mentioned as working or not.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 11:29 AM
...one reviewer had a one month old i7 iMac with 16GB RAM experiencing this problem. Serious Same BFE is giving me Kernel Panics... I'm glad developers want to get into the Mac market but its like they're selecting the 'Compile for Mac' radio button and clicking Build and selling the beta builds.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 04:46 PM
Anyone know how it's ported? Cider port? It's a XNA-based game, so I had thought a native Mac version was impossible.
Anyways, I have the Steam version, so I'll be looking forward to trying out the mac version.
Anyways, I have the Steam version, so I'll be looking forward to trying out the mac version.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 07:05 PM
XNA uses .net and it's possible to compile it with Mono so that's what they may have done although I don't have this game yet so I can't be sure if that's what they did or if they wrapped it. They use Mono with Unity when porting it to the Mac too btw I have noticed.
Actually.. it looks like they may have used MonoGame to compile it.. take a look here: http://monogame.codeplex.com/
What's interesting is only the iOS version supports gamepads.
Actually.. it looks like they may have used MonoGame to compile it.. take a look here: http://monogame.codeplex.com/
What's interesting is only the iOS version supports gamepads.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 08:09 PM
Smoke_Tetsu, on 28 April 2012 - 07:05 PM, said:
They use Mono with Unity when porting it to the Mac too btw I have noticed.
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 08:34 PM
And that makes a difference to what I was saying how?
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Alex Delarg, A Clockwork Orange said:
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
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Slower and faster? I'm sorry to hear such good news?
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Posted 28 April 2012 - 10:15 PM
Just clarifying things. Not sure why it would have to make a difference to what you were saying.
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Posted 29 April 2012 - 07:34 PM
Smoke_Tetsu, on 28 April 2012 - 08:34 PM, said:
And that makes a difference to what I was saying how?
It's the opposite? :-)
Joking aside, your original wording made it sound like Mono was added later as a way to port Unity (implying that Unity was originally written in Microsoft's .NET.) But Unity has always been written in Mono.
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Posted 29 April 2012 - 08:26 PM
It's written in C++. 
It uses Mono though.
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It uses Mono though.--Eric
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 08:29 AM
Eric5h5, on 29 April 2012 - 08:26 PM, said:
It's written in C++. It uses Mono though.
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It uses Mono though.--Eric
And that makes a difference to what I was saying how?
You're right of course. As I understand it a fair amount of the editor is written in Mono using their own Unity GUI API, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Thanks for the reminder.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 04:48 PM
Well the point is they used Mono to compile Bastion for the Mac. Specifically MonoGame which is used to compile an XNA game for other platforms other than Windows.
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Alex Delarg, A Clockwork Orange said:
It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.
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Slower and faster? I'm sorry to hear such good news?
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 07:48 AM
Smoke_Tetsu, on 30 April 2012 - 04:48 PM, said:
Well the point is they used Mono to compile Bastion for the Mac. Specifically MonoGame which is used to compile an XNA game for other platforms other than Windows.
Good info; thanks.
Bought it a couple days ago but I haven't had time to actually try it. Hopefully I'll get to it next week..
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 07:11 PM
At 60% off there's really no reason NOT to get this. The soundtrack edition is also discounted, but I bought the music ages ago. Good stuff.
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Posted 02 May 2012 - 11:26 AM
Wumpus, on 01 May 2012 - 07:11 PM, said:
At 60% off there's really no reason NOT to get this. The soundtrack edition is also discounted, but I bought the music ages ago. Good stuff.
