Braid for Mac is now available!

[bunty]

It's like a 2D Prince of Persia

 

[ltldrummerboy]

Does this support gamepads?

 

[birch25]

Does this support gamepads?

My Xbox 360 controller (with all appropriate drivers installed) does not seem to work with it and there are no clear option to enable gamepad play which is a shame.

 

[aznguyen316]

the keyboard controls are killin it for me lol, money better spent on Plants vs Zombies... DO IT!! both on steam and a Mac version.

 

[peepboon]

Will be trying this tonight i love puzzle games

 

[ltldrummerboy]

My Xbox 360 controller (with all appropriate drivers installed) does not seem to work with it and there are no clear option to enable gamepad play which is a shame.

Too bad. That's the same setup I've got. If they added gamepad support then it would be a no-brainer for me.

 

[birch25]

Too bad. That's the same setup I've got. If they added gamepad support then it would be a no-brainer for me.

You really should get it anyway

 

[blizaine]

this is, by far, my favorite XBL game of all time. Very cool. If it gets ported to the iPhone, I'll pick it up.

 

[bstreiff]

The graphics are fantastic! It's not 3D but the art is stunning. If you're calling all 2D games Mario and Donkey Kong rehashes, I can't reason with you, but as for the graphics being on par with NES/SNES games, ahem...

SNES

Final Fantasy 3/6 is a better representation of the graphical power of the SNES than Super Mario Bros. 3. Especially since SMB3 was for the NES, not the SNES.

 

[gabe90]

Own this for XBLA. Amazing experience, and anyone who doesn't have a 360 should definitely check this out. Living art.

 

[Eric5h5]

You can use gamepads with a third-party utility like Controllermate. Not ideal, but it works. Here is a Controllermate setup for my Rumblepad 2, if anyone's interested and wants to save a couple minutes of setting it up yourself. Both the dpad and left stick are mapped to arrow keys. Button 2 = space, button 3 = shift, button 4 = esc.

--Eric

 

[Akzel]

Oh, good one. Since it's 2D I won't need to use the 9600 so it won't freeze my MBP while I'm playing a game. Good tactics Apple!

 

[ltldrummerboy]

You really should get it anyway

I probably will, if only to support Mac gaming. I'll contact them to ask if they have any plans to add gamepad support. Until then it looks like I'll be giving ControllerMate a go. I'll let everyone know what I find.

 

[birch25]

Final Fantasy 3/6 is a better representation of the graphical power of the SNES than Super Mario Bros. 3. Especially since SMB3 was for the NES, not the SNES.

Oops, you are correct, sir. Although Braid still looks worlds better than anything from the early 90s.

 

[Miharu]

The lack of controller support is astounding. Fortunately the above mentioned ways of making your gamepad act as a keyboard seem to work.

 

[WilliamG]

This game also runs APPALLINGLY. It's pretty much completely unplayable at any resolution on my 2.66ghz 17" unibody MBP. I loved it on the 360, but this game is a travesty on the Mac side.

 

[DavidLeblond]

Game runs perfectly on my computer. The puzzles make my head hurt though! $15 seems like a good deal, I may have to get it.

(I have no Xbox, only a Wii)

 

[pdpardue]

the game freezes the whole system on me. Get as far as the picture and when I go to solve it the computer becomes pretty much non responsive and I have to do a hard reboot

 

[Eric5h5]

This game also runs APPALLINGLY. It's pretty much completely unplayable at any resolution on my 2.66ghz 17" unibody MBP. I loved it on the 360, but this game is a travesty on the Mac side.

Runs perfectly at the desktop resolution on my G5 + X800. Which is getting close to 5 years old now...the game is not remotely a "travesty"; it's a very good port.

--Eric

 

[aznguyen316]

This game also runs APPALLINGLY. It's pretty much completely unplayable at any resolution on my 2.66ghz 17" unibody MBP. I loved it on the 360, but this game is a travesty on the Mac side.

lol something must be up with your mac.. my 2.0 MB runs the demo fine at native resolution, no issues =) just keyboard play sucks

 

[JRTeK]

i've had this game for about a month... the cider version works PERFECT...

 

[WilliamG]

Runs perfectly at the desktop resolution on my G5 + X800. Which is getting close to 5 years old now...the game is not remotely a "travesty"; it's a very good port.

--Eric

OK well then something is wrong with my unibody, and my wife's unibody 2.53Ghz 15.4". Or the game is coded badly. But something is up.

 

[God^Cent]

Glad to see this games been ported. Braid was/is one of the most intelligent games I've seen in the past few years. This game will make your brain hurt so bad you'll want to cry... then quite literally jump for joy when you've completed the puzzle. This was a blast to play and I'd highly recommend it!

 

[gloss]

Glad to see this games been ported. Braid was/is one of the most intelligent games I've seen in the past few years. This game will make your brain hurt so bad you'll want to cry... then quite literally jump for joy when you've completed the puzzle. This was a blast to play and I'd highly recommend it!

+1

Brilliant game.

 

[Akzel]

OK well then something is wrong with my unibody, and my wife's unibody 2.53Ghz 15.4". Or the game is coded badly. But something is up.

I'm playing at my 2.53GHz 15.4" and it's perfect. Beautiful graphics too.

Did you check the correct resolution at start? You can beef it up to 1440x900, full screen, vsync and play it in it's full glory, perfectly (on the Unibody MBP at least).

Nice title, I'll buy it.