14 DAY TRIAL // Everett Kaser Software has announced the successful port of all its casual PC titles to the Apple Macintosh. With the help of Brad Oliver, Solitile, Fliptile, Sherlock, Knarly Mazes, Descartes, Floyd's Bumbershoot and more are now available to buy. You can either get the games as digital downloads or on CD.
Developer Everett Kaser writes, according to InsideMacGames:
Starting about six years ago, I wrote all of my new games in an "interpreted language" of my own devising, and also began rewriting all of my old games into that language. The environment (the interpreter program) expects very little of the OS, just very basic output of a "screen bitmap" to the program's window, the input of various events (mouse, keyboard, timers), and file I/O. Everything else (menus, dialogs, help, and of course, the game itself) are written in the interpreted language. The interpreter program is a relatively simple C program, the source code to which I've been making available on my website since the beginning. The point of this seemingly long paragraph :-) is that this past year, Brad Oliver ported the interpreter for me to the Mac platform.
I've spent the past couple of months "polishing it up" and making Mac builds of all of the games, and both the demo and licensed versions of the games are now available. All 24 games are available for the Mac, and all future games of mine will be simultaneously released in PC and Mac versions. Because the UI itself is written IN the interpreted language, the games' dialogs and menus will have a decidedly MS Windows "flavor" to them, but that is a minor point of the games, and shouldn't interfere at all with Mac users enjoying the games.
Everett Kaser Software makes logic and puzzle games. The titles are brain teasers, and use little of your computer's resources, hence the emphasis on the gameplay mechanics, not the looks. According to the developer, all games (other than the MS-DOS games) are designed for use on PCs running all "modern" versions of MS Windows (95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP, and Vista) and now on Macs running OS X versions 10.4 and up.
Kaser also claims that the demo versions of its games will be made available shortly. We'll keep an eye out to offer them up for grabs the minute they're in the wild.