Blast Miner for Mac

Cryptic Sea has released Blast Miner for Mac, making good on its promise to bring the physics-based action strategy game to the Mac community. Blast Miner is actually two games in one, offering a puzzle mode alongside a fast-paced Tetris-like environment. Both game modes challenge players to extract chunks of gold from mine shafts using TNT, gasoline, acid, and other means. The puzzle mode requires deep strategy to extract gold from difficult underground situations, while the Tetris-like mode continuously queues up various means of tunneling through an ever-deepening mineshaft as players attempt to process gold chunks. The game is priced at $20, and requires Mac OS X (specific system requirements were unavailable).

Blast Miner in March won Cryptic Sea founders Alex Austin and Edmund McMillen $5000 alongside the Gametap award at this year's annual Independent Games Festival. The title was recognized for its technical excellence, and may find its way onto one or more console systems via a publishing contract.











Gish 2 under development

Cryptic Sea has released sample artwork for Gish 2 (see below), the upcoming sequel to its original hit title that sold thousands of copies internationally and won the $20,000 grand prize at the 2005 Independent Games Festival. The company has told MacNN that it will strive to release Gish 2 for Mac and Windows simultaneously.

Gish 2 sample artwork:

by MacNN Staff