Riven X 0.7

Sunday, February 15, 2009 in Projects | 9 comments

Riven X 0.7 is now available. This release introduces fully functional implementations of the rebel tunnel and boiler puzzles. In addition, several levers and switches have been made operational throughout the game. Finally, significant engine enhancements have been made. See the release notes for more details.

I’m sorry that it took so long to produce this new version, but the amount of work done on the engine cannot be understated. I feel that, with a few exceptions, I now have a near final engine in terms of functionality. There certainly is room for a lot of optimization, but nevertheless I should now be able to implement the core gameplay puzzles much more rapidly.

The next release of Riven X will focus on exactly that. I will also try to produce more frequent intermediate releases, perhaps every 2 weeks.

I hope you enjoy this new build, and make sure to file bug reports for any issue you encounter!

Download Riven X 0.7 (5.05 MB).

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9 comments

  1. Renaat’s avatar

    Renaat on Monday, February 16, 2009 at 00:42 PST

    Great!
    i’ll check this out as soon as possible :)

  2. Grover’s avatar

    Grover on Monday, February 16, 2009 at 06:57 PST

    Thanks for this update.
    Sadly, it still doesn’t allow me to run it. :(
    Bug Filed at Launchpad.

  3. Jean-François Roy’s avatar

    Jean-François Roy on Monday, February 16, 2009 at 21:09 PST

    I have addressed the issue in Riven X 0.7.1.

  4. Icshi’s avatar

    Icshi on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 17:19 PST

    Riven is by far the single greatest computer game ever created, and your efforts to make this game playable on modern Macs is greatly appreciated!

  5. Mike DelVecchio’s avatar

    Mike DelVecchio on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 00:02 PST

    Thank you so much for this!

  6. Christian’s avatar

    Christian on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 19:09 PST

    This is wonderful!

    Thank you so much for your hard work.

  7. Susan Csikos’s avatar

    Susan Csikos on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 at 15:22 PDT

    Thank you thank you thank you for your efforts to make this playable on Mac. I miss good games since switching to Mac 3 years ago!! I have a MacBook with OS X.4 and just bought the 10th anniversary trilogy because I heard you could play Exile on Leopard, but you have to have the hard drive partitioned to 9.1. I will learn how to do this and implement it, but first I will install Riven and your patch– I know you’re still working on it, so I’ll try to hold myself together.:)

  8. Simon’s avatar

    Simon on Monday, June 8, 2009 at 19:38 PDT

    I just discovered Riven X a few days ago, I immediately ordered a copy of Riven from Amazon (lost mine years ago), and am installing right now. I wanted to let you know how grateful I am for all the work you have done to make this work. You have brought joy to many.
    Namaste

  9. Jean-François Roy’s avatar

    Jean-François Roy on Monday, June 8, 2009 at 22:55 PDT

    Simon: Please be aware that Riven X is a work in progress at this time. There are many bugs and issues left in the game, and many puzzles do not work at all. The final, polished version of Riven X will be available by the end of this summer.

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