So I made a game you should play

[Solidus Joe]

Hey everyone. I am likely too old for a lot of you to remember (or just old enough for others to remember ). But since I realized that historically I have friends here and this is a community that loves playing games (especially when said games are of the $0 price point) that I should take it upon myself to share this little gem with you all.

Over the summer up to Halloween myself and 17 other students at my university slaved away countless hours of our free (and not so free) time to create this game for DePaul's entry to the Independent Games Festival. Unfortunately, unlike some of our previous entries (Devil's Tuning Fork and Octodad for any of you who'd like to see some of the other awesome games, they are also free) we did not receive the same exciting media attention. But hey, can't win them all. Anyways, enough about me and lets get talking about the game.

It can be downloaded for free at www.mackvswindows.com

I am usually not a big advocate of trying to sell things I make to others, I usually just point them in the right direction and say go but I do think I should tell you about the game a little more than usual.

In Mack Vs. Windows you play as an intern, at a science facility, named "Mack" (short for Mackenzie). In a freak pen fetching incident she accidentally shatters the universe into small pieces. Being someone who is not always that responsible she decides to do her best to book it while the booking is good and get out before anyone realizes it was her mistake that caused this.

The gameplay picks up around there. Its been compared to a sliding puzzle, you use the mouse to click and drag windows around the screen and they have various effects on the geometry of the level and can be used to solve physics puzzles as well. To quote the original description "Shift, Slam, and Slide windows around on the screen to solve puzzles and get to the exit. Use the force of the dodgy physics of this broken universe to smash your way to victory in this 2.5D Puzzle Platform adventure about shifting blame, silly science, and super jumps."

Anyways, I'd love it if any of you checked it out. We're crossing our fingers to hopefully get into the Top 8 for student entries for the third year in a row.

Thanks bunches for your time!

Joe

[Articwolf]

I remember you and that's because I'm a quiet vet here myself lol and what a time to come back to check paradise out! I will def check this out

[luffy4]

ironic that its mac vs windows but wont work on mac

[rabidmedia]

don't know you, but the game looks awsome! I, too am an independant developer, though I'm not skilled in programming, my tool of choice is GameMaker (lame name, but very versitile for what it is.) from Yoyo Games. My main projects are DreamCherry and CherryBoy. check out www.rabidmedia.weebly.com to see them. though the theme is retro platformers, the gameplay and presentation is ANYTHING but lazy, I've been working on dreamcherry since Febuary, 2009, and it still isn't anywhere near done...
I'm downloading your game now. looks cool!

[Darklinky]

Am gonna check this out later, have book marked your website.

The game looks intresting (from the video at least)

Thanks for sharing with us mortals who want, but cant create games x

[battousai]

downloaded it, will play it sometime tonight!

[Solidus Joe]

ironic that its mac vs windows but wont work on mac

The games name has always been some sort of ironic statement. It didn't become Mack Vs Windows until late in development. It originally started out as a game called "Fullscreen" and it could only be played in Windowed mode.

don't know you, but the game looks awsome! I, too am an independant developer, though I'm not skilled in programming, my tool of choice is GameMaker (lame name, but very versitile for what it is.) from Yoyo Games. My main projects are DreamCherry and CherryBoy. check out www.rabidmedia.weebly.com to see them. though the theme is retro platformers, the gameplay and presentation is ANYTHING but lazy, I've been working on dreamcherry since Febuary, 2009, and it still isn't anywhere near done...
I'm downloading your game now. looks cool!

GameMaker is a powerful tool for the money. I know a lot of awesome games that have been made in it. We used it shortly for some prototyping during pre-production of this game.

To everyone else, thanks tons for the support!

[negles]

i downloaded.. but i cant play graphics card sucks too much. i know what im getting for christmas

[Elin]

I remember you, Joe! And your game looks fantastic. I'll download it as soon as I get around to rebooting my Mac into Windows. :'D

[Pac-Ten]

Downloading.

[Solidus Joe]

i downloaded.. but i cant play graphics card sucks too much. i know what im getting for christmas

Yeah that is a side effect of building a game in XNA. If you ever get the chance to play it I hope you enjoy it!

I remember you, Joe! And your game looks fantastic. I'll download it as soon as I get around to rebooting my Mac into Windows. :'D

Har har har. Well I am glad that I am not as forgettable as I seem to think that I am.