How to play Northbound: Long Road Ahead on Mac
Platforms | Computer |
Game summary
Northbound is a narrative, atmospheric adventure game set on a roadtrip.
Features
Colorful, atmospheric handcrafted graphics
A highly detailed bus to explore
Soundtrack featuring various indie artists
An amount of dialogue we've never bothered to count
Will last you anywhere between 20 to 45 minutes
No objectives to fulfill, so take your time
Background
Development started back in February of 2018 as part of our final thesis at university, where the two of us developed it for five months until we graduated in June.
Since then, it has received pretty positive reactions, encouraging us to start development of an all new version of Northbound.
This is not that new version. In fact, this version, now dubbed 'Long Road Ahead', is pretty much exactly the one we graduated with.
We are uploading it here in order to clear our heads, re-process our development and design processes that led us to this version, and to gather feedback. We hope that all of this will help us with development of the new version of Northbound, so please let us know if you liked it.
If you are interested, please follow us on Twitter for updates on the current state of development.
First released: Apr 2019
Play Northbound: Long Road Ahead on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Northbound: Long Road Ahead 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).
Northbound: Long Road Ahead 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 Northbound: Long Road Ahead like you would on any PC.
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