How to play Tower Noire on Mac
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Game summary
Tower Noire is a small coffeebreak roguelike inspired by Cave Noire, Little Nemo, and Powder, created for 7DRL 2018 in PICO-8. I ended up reusing old, long-abandoned assets and concepts to be able to complete something in 7 days.
Gameplay Tips:
* The goal is to get to the 25th floor and defeat an enemy there, so plan accordingly.
* Your starting equipment will very quickly need to be upgraded.
* Passive effects for weapons may be more useful than additional strength.
* Some passives affect positioning and can help you from getting cornered.
* Get a sense for the room before running straight in. Some enemies can kill you pretty easily in 1x1 hallways.
* Explore the room carefully for easy enemies that drop edible items and items scattered around.
* Falling down a hole will damage you and also let the enemies take a turn. On harder floors this can do a lot of damage.
* Move slowly.
First released: Mar 2018
Play Tower Noire on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Tower Noire 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).
Tower Noire 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 Tower Noire like you would on any PC.
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