How to play BallStrike on Mac
| Platforms | Computer |
Game summary
With BallStrike and a front-facing PC camera--a camera facing you--stand seven feet (two meters) from the camera, and BallStrike will put balls of different colors in your room. Move around to destroy the balls, and destroy as many as you can within the alloted time. Some balls reward you with more points than others; you get some points for destroying red balls, more for destroying blue balls, and even more for destroying green balls. Avoid black balls: those are bombs.
As you are moving your body to take out red, green, and blue balls while avoiding black balls, you are exercising. A calorie counter estimates how many calories you have burned.
First released: May 2012
Play BallStrike on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play BallStrike on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.
Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.
Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).
BallStrike installation steps for Mac
Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install BallStrike like you would on any PC.
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