Comments on: “It Just Works”

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:21:29 +0000

Heidi, keeping mind that this is my personal blog and I don’t speak for Telltale: I could insist on it all I wanted, but it wouldn’t change reality. We’ve got a very experienced, very capable, but very small team, who are currently supporting two series (Sam & Max and CSI) and development of S&M Season 2. Porting a videogame to a different platform isn’t trivial.

I’ve said plenty on here about how I’m a fan of Macs. And there are plenty of Mac users around the office. We like Macs, and we’re aware that a lot of the fans have requested Mac versions of the game. And I’ll point out that Mac users aren’t completely cut out as it stands now — I played all the season 1 episodes (and worked on a few of them) using a MacBook Pro under Boot Camp.

As for not being able to play it on the iPhone, that’s all Steve Jobs’ fault.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:57:44 +0000

Chuck, if you were Apple material, you would insist that telltale make its games available on the mac platform. Then you can play it on your iPhone.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:23:30 +0000

Dude, if you’re so afraid of looking like a follower that you can’t even check out an iPhone in a store, then you’re clearly not Apple material. Sorry to break it to you, but I’m just trying to help — what would happen when you’re out on the street in San Francisco and you’re one of a dozen other guys of the same age and general demographic, and you hear the “marimba” ringtone, and every one of you reaches for his iPhone at the same time?

By: Hanford

Hanford — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:56:08 +0000

Thanks for the update.

I went to play with the iPhone at the Apple store but got trendyphobia when I saw big crowd huddled around them. I didn’t want to look like I was part of the masses so I instead pretended I was looking for a way to extend the video cable of my Cinema HD monitor. I didn’t find anything for that, by the way.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:29:52 +0000

I tried both in the interests of science:
1) From a web page: It plays in the web browser’s embedded QuickTime viewer, which didn’t surprise me at all. Safari tries to do the same thing on a Mac.
2) In e-mail: it just shows you the attachment without the ability to preview it or do anything with it, which did surprise me.

The iPod library is pretty much walled off from everything else on the phone, you can’t make any changes to your library on the device itself other than making a single On-the-Go playlist. You can’t even do the stuff that would benefit Apple, like go to the iTunes store and buy songs over the phone.

By: Hanford

Hanford — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:18:27 +0000

Hey Chuck, if you visit a website with a link to a hosted-on-the-internet Mp3 file, and you click the button, what does the iPhone do with it? Does it download it? Does it play it? Does it add it to your music library? What about mp3s attached in email?

Just curious.