Braid comes to the Mac

You have to admit: for all of the gaming woes that the Mac faithful has suffered, there's fortunately never been a shortage of great indie games for us to play. Aquaria made it to our platform, World of Goo appeared pretty early on, and now Braid, Jonathan Blow's terrific deconstruction of Super Mario Bros., has appeared on OS X thanks to the kind folks over at Hothead Games. The game has won more awards than you can count, but I can personally tell you it's great, as I played the XBLA release when it first arrived. It's a classic 2D platformer in the vein of Mario with a very important twist: you can reverse, slow, and replay time throughout the various levels. That twist results in an extremely artistic game that takes apart the original Mario story and ends up with something very much more beautiful and sad.

"Artistic"? "Beautiful"? "Sad"? Can I say these things about a videogame? Of course I can -- Braid stands in a class of its own as an experience that uses art and gameplay together to tell quite a story. If you're a fan of innovative games or just great interactive experiences, and haven't played through it yet (it's fairly short, maybe six hours at the most), it's definitely worth a look. The Greenhouse is selling the Mac or PC versions for $14.95.

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Paul Bryan

Finally a Mac version of a game that is superior to its Windows incarnation.

With the Mac version of Braid, I can play the game at my monitor's native resolution (1080p), which the Window's version can't, and without the black border I get in Windows. And finally something that makes use of my new Mac mini's 9400M graphics.

Well done to whoever ported this game .

May 22 2009 at 3:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Xoviet chiK

I really wish the level editor was was a bit more accessible. It's a pain to load up at the moment. Seeing as it is the main incentive for me to re-buy this game as we already have it on 360.

Does anyone know of a decent way to access the Level Editor other than using Terminal to launch the game?

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Diegus83

There is a box in the launcher that says "Additional Comands", I guess you can use it to pass the same parameter that you use in terminal to open the editor.
In my Mac Pro with Tiger I've to use -no_post or otherwise it crash every time, I guess is Ok for a 1.0 version.

May 21 2009 at 2:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon

I have this for XB and it's a fun game. Very "artsy", and still fun at the same time.

I wonder if it will come out for the iPhone though? The controls are not that complex, it seems like a good fit for the iphone.

May 21 2009 at 11:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fred

Are you sure that's not "The Pitt". That title shot looks SCARY!

May 21 2009 at 10:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

moshee

I had this a while ago on my Mac using Cider... but I guess a native version is always better. Great game.

May 21 2009 at 9:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Harry

I've just played the first level, and as a game it looks promising, but I find the artwork and music incredibly twee. It's always sad when you can see that loads of effort has been put into achieving something so naff.

May 21 2009 at 9:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Matthias Schonder

If it only would not crash after 1 minute...

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Zachary Hinchliffe

MatzeLoCal, you're in the minority here. I just got it and it works great. Try disabling some other apps and try again.

Send a support request if you can find an email or form to do so, though.

May 21 2009 at 11:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

superberg

Hasn't crashed for me, and I've played through the first three worlds.

Loved this game on 360, loving it even more on mac.

May 21 2009 at 1:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alpay

Seems definitely worth checking out. Mac gaming, coupled with the iPhone platform will soon match PC gaming.
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