How to play Nothing on Mac

Game summary

Nothing is a quirky little puzzle platformer where EVERYTHING is a collectable upgrade – including sound FX, jumping and even moving left. Created for Ludum Dare 45, in Nothing you start the game with nothing – no sound and a character that can’t move in any direction. However, as you progress you collect upgrades which flesh out you abilities and your experience. These upgrades start off fairly normal, such as allowing you to move left, but soon get more crazy (and funnier). Taking around 10 minutes to play through, it’s a fun little game with a great sense of humor, beautiful pixel art animation, challenging gameplay and a delightfully quirky premise. There’s one major feature that you don’t get until near the end of the game that really affects how you play the game and makes you approach the platforming in a very unique way. Good luck!
First released: Nov 2019

Play Nothing on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Nothing 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).

Nothing 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 Nothing like you would on any PC.
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