Filed under: Developer, Games, Macintosh
TransGaming's Cider to enable Windows games on Intel Macs
by Jordan Running Aug 3rd 2006
TransGaming, known for its Cedega product which allows Windows games to run on Linux, has just announced Cider, a similar product for Intel Macs. Cider (get it--Apple, Cider?) is aimed at game developers and allows them to make their games work on Intel Macs without any source code changes. "Games are simply wrapped up in the Cider engine and they work on the Mac," says the Cider web site. According to TransGaming's FAQ, Cider's business model is a revenue-sharing one, meaning TransGaming gets a cut of the revenues from the sale of Cider-enabled game. I wonder if that means makers of freeware games can use it for free.[Via Gamer Scan]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
