The guys over at MacHeist are much revered among Mac users for their wonderful series of discounted app bundles. Now they’ve turned iPhone developers with their new game, The Heist… and if you beat the game, you’ll get a free game through Steam for Mac for your trouble.
In The Heist, your goal is to solve sixty different puzzles in order to unlock a secret vault that will give you access to the latest MacHeist bundle. The game features complete Game Center Integration, with 19 achievements in total to earn, and the puzzles themselves are devilishly meta: for example, at one point, you need to field a fake phone call from a girl named Sophia that mimics almost to a t the iPhone’s real interface.
We haven’t beat The Heist yet, but we have it on good authority that finishing the game will give you access to a new MacHeist bundle: namely, through a Steam code for a PC/Mac game with a purchase price far greater than the $0.99 you spent on the app. We’re trying to figure out what game that is, but in the meantime, we’ve got to admire Macheist’s cleverness: these are guys who know how to market.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
20 responses to “Beat MacHeist’s New iPhone Game ‘The Heist’ And Win Another Free Game For Mac”
Apparently it’s not available in Canada.
Appears to have just been pulled from the US App Store as well. I downloaded it as soon as I saw them announce it, then I went to go back and it’s gone.
And now it’s available again. Either a volume of downloads glitch or something else.
The something else could be the whole paywall thing. They started nixing apps that were linking to downloads for other apps and in a sense that is what this is also. The promise of free software for your computer could be seen as a tactic to inflate download numbers for the iOS game which Apple does not approve of
Last time I accidentally
saw a website selling mobile iphones on the site. Click to and find it is very
cheap. the website is http://www.ecgoon.com What a beautiful mobile phone. Now for everyone to share.Such
as new white iphone4, new ipad2,new blackberry playbook. http://www.ecgoon.com
a game id play for the sake of playing its recommended thumbs up
great puzzle game, id recommend it, but it will take you a while, sure did take me a while
I just opened the vault. *SPOILER ALERT* The game is called Eets, normally worth US$9.99 on Steam.
Boom.
I just won it.
Now, if only steam for mac would load consistently…
How do you restart it? My wife like to play it as well from the start. Thanks =)
if you want to get the game, follow the walkthrough to get it quicksmart!
http://www.theheistguide.com