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elfsPopCap games has released Bejeweled Twist for the PC, and is scheduled to come out with a Mac version later this year. Since Omaha is a Mac game reviewer, she gets nifty free copies of lots of different things and one of the things she scored was a copy of Bejeweld Twist PC edition. Most people have seen Bejeweled, the tetris-like game where you try to line up jewels to score points; it's PopCap's best-selling game and damnably addictive.
I have long praised PopCap for being Wine compliant. I've bought three of their games before: Zuma, Bejeweled 2, and Peggle (Peggle's my favorite; unicorns for the win!), and all three run absolutely flawlessly under Wine. They've all worked so well that I have to wonder if PopCap does a QA pass under Wine. Testing under Wine would probably cost them a day of development and open up an entire new audience that they couldn't reach before.
Bejeweled Twist doesn't work under Wine. It plays, but there's a bug in the registration code. Apparently, Twist uses DDE to talk to the underlying HTTP libraries, and there's a disconnect such that Twist is passing an empty URL to winebrowser and no dialogue is happening between the two. So I'm stuck in "Free User" mode, which has a lifespan of 120 minutes before the game craps out and I'll have to re-install it or something. Other games with on-line registration mechanisms have worked for me in the past, so this is a bit of a disappointing step backwards.
It's a pity, because Twist is a very beautiful game, with great audio and gorgeous backgrounds. It's really just Bejeweled with a different mechanism for lining up the stones, and with new "benefits" and "reward" modes. But since I have a registration code, I'd like to, you know, be able to register my game.
I have long praised PopCap for being Wine compliant. I've bought three of their games before: Zuma, Bejeweled 2, and Peggle (Peggle's my favorite; unicorns for the win!), and all three run absolutely flawlessly under Wine. They've all worked so well that I have to wonder if PopCap does a QA pass under Wine. Testing under Wine would probably cost them a day of development and open up an entire new audience that they couldn't reach before.
Bejeweled Twist doesn't work under Wine. It plays, but there's a bug in the registration code. Apparently, Twist uses DDE to talk to the underlying HTTP libraries, and there's a disconnect such that Twist is passing an empty URL to winebrowser and no dialogue is happening between the two. So I'm stuck in "Free User" mode, which has a lifespan of 120 minutes before the game craps out and I'll have to re-install it or something. Other games with on-line registration mechanisms have worked for me in the past, so this is a bit of a disappointing step backwards.
It's a pity, because Twist is a very beautiful game, with great audio and gorgeous backgrounds. It's really just Bejeweled with a different mechanism for lining up the stones, and with new "benefits" and "reward" modes. But since I have a registration code, I'd like to, you know, be able to register my game.
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Date: 2008-11-02 12:24 am (UTC)I love PopCap Games. I bought Zuma many years ago, and have a hacked copy of Bejeweled 2 that I intend to buy. Plus I've played Peggle (and Peggle Nights) and they are on the shopping list as well. Fun, and incredibly time-wasting.
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Date: 2008-11-02 06:04 am (UTC)When someone made their own version of Bejeweled as a free addon in World of Warcraft, instead of taking the easy route of shutting it down, they worked with the guy to make it an official Bewejeled. That's the right way to handle it, a far cry from how other companies have handled their properties.
Did you file a wine bug yet?
Date: 2008-11-02 02:50 pm (UTC)Did you know that YOU are popcap's wine QA department, along
with all the other wine users who file bug reports?
I added a note in Wine's appdb with your test results, see
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14325
Would you mind also filing a bug at http://bugs.winehq.org ?
If you don't do it, I'll do it eventually, but it'd be better if you did it,
as then you'd be notified when it's fixed, or when
people have new code for you to try.
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