Mac Version of Tidalis on Steam: Coming Soon

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So, you might notice that Steam for the Mac doesn't yet include Tidalis.  Never fear, Tidalis is coming to Steam for the Mac, but I'm not certain exactly when.  We and Valve had hoped it would be today, but we ran into a technical issue that we haven't yet solved getting Tidalis to run properly from Steam on the Mac.  Myself and one of their engineers (intrepid soul to whom I'm intensely grateful!) stayed up literally half the night last night trying to get this resolved, and while we did get very close, there's still a remaining issue we're trying to sort out.

At any rate, as soon as this issue is solved there, we'll have Tidalis out on Steam for the Mac.  Note that the other Mac versions available elsewhere are not affected by this at all, this is just limited to our integration with Steam at the moment.

We'll update you as soon as it's ready!

[rubikscube]

Having a Mac version of Tidalis has more of an effect on pc gamers as they will see you guys are very considerate, than compared to real mac users who play pc games other ways.

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I think Mac users like not having to load up boot camp or vmware for games.

[ppiixx]

Wish I had seen this post before steam let me purchase it on my mac.

Why show it in the store with mac sysreqs if it doesnt work 

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This was an unexpected setback on the day of release, sorry about that.  You can still use that license key to play the version from our site on your Mac in the meantime -- it just won't have the hook into Steam's overlay and the leaderboards and achievements.  I am hoping that the Mac version of Tidalis will be out on Steam itself really soon, possibly on monday -- though it may be without the overlay active, though the achievements and leaderboards would work.  I can't promise anything, but this has been a weekend full of work trying to get this working, and that's looking like the solution at the moment.  Rest assured we're taking this extremely seriously, and it's been just an unexpected event that has resulted in a lot of long hours for both myself and for several Valve engineers.  Sorry for any inconvenience there, and thanks for your support of our work.

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Okay, the Mac version is now out on Steam!  The steam overlay is currently disabled in the mac version of Tidalis, because of an issue with fmod and a limitation on the number of semaphores that OSX supports -- 255, evidently.  We'll be talking to the Unity 3D support folks, and working on a workaround aside from that, to get that resolved in the next 1-2 weeks, so that we're sure to be able to do enough testing on it before it goes out to everyone.

The leaderboards and achievements still work just great in the Steam mac version, just not the in-game overlay itself... yet.  We'll let you know as we get that resolved!  Thanks for your patience there, and sorry for the initial confusion.

[ppiixx]

The mac ver is downloading in steam now 

Thanks for the quick responses.

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My pleasure!  Thanks again for your patience, and for your support!