More fun than the Price Is Right
I’m really enjoying this Mac Heist shareware promoting adventure. It’s full of fictional emails sent to fictional Apple employees that lead to fictional websites with fictional product shots and DMGs. It’s amazing how much detail the people at Mac Heist have put into this scavenger hunt-like game. Fictional personal websites with pictures of family members. Hilarious, albeit Mac nerd-centric, forum posts in the fictional internal website for Apple (like the fake post from Phil Schiller stating he lost his iPod nano somewhere and if anyone sees it, let him know.). Also in the fictional internal Apple website is the Employee Handbook with a rule that states, “All members of Jonathan Ives design team must drive Audi TT’s” playing around with that ‘fancy designer’ stereotype.
There will be multiple heists/puzzles for a few weeks and the loot is free software donated by small developers. I’ll admit the first load of ‘cash’ was not of much use to me, but a high school or college student should appreciate them (3 software items in one heist reward!).
They try to play up the whole clandestine angle, but I think you can get a Mac Heist account with little effort. I got mine while reading a post on TUAW and I think you might even be able to just sign up on the MacHeist website. Once inside, the forums can help you if you get stuck, but don’t spoil the fun for yourself.
I guess registered members get 7 invites to hand out, so I can send out those too. Lemme know.
