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Tinker!

BY: NICK IANNITTI  |  Uncategorized

Look, we’re pretty proud of the game we made for Vista Ultimate. Tinker is out there now getting a lot of great reviews, and we couldn’t be happier that people are enjoying our surreal puzzler.

If you’ve got Ultimate, and you haven’t had a chance to check it out, be sure to download it (warning: it’s highly addictive). And while you’re at it, create some of your own head-scratchers with our level editor.

As part of the game release, our superbly talented 3D and video teams have created a teaser trailer that gives a little taste of the type of trouble Tinker gets himself into in the game. I leave you with it, and with my very best wishes for the weekend.

COMMENTS
  1. Machiel van Rheenen
    October 6th
    2008 at 7:41 pm

    Ls,

    Just downloaded and played tinker, absolutely magnificent work.
    Made some levels with the editor and put them on my website for download by other Tinker users.
    I was wondering if this was not allowed for some reason. I read somewhere that they had to be submitted to Microsoft.
    Is that the case?

    Highest regards,

    Machiel

  2. Keith
    October 10th
    2008 at 12:01 am

    I just downloaded Tinker from Microsoft Update. Very fun and addictive game. Having paid more money for Vista Ultimate, it’s nice to finally be getting my money’s worth.

  3. Pogo
    October 12th
    2008 at 1:46 pm

    Please ! Someone tell me, who made a soundtrack for this game ??
    It is marvelous !!

  4. Diann
    October 14th
    2008 at 2:26 pm

    I have a question - when you are trying to reset Tinker game to start how do you do this.? I have tried clearing the saved games and previous played games keep appearing? How is this done?

  5. a
    October 23rd
    2008 at 12:18 am

    where can I get the soundtracks for this game? or can you guys at least provide a song list?

  6. Jules
    November 1st
    2008 at 6:59 pm

    I love the game and would love to know if there is a soundtrack planned or existing for it. I love the type of music and would pay for a CD. Thanks.

  7. LeRoy
    December 18th
    2008 at 8:10 pm

    I’ll add to the chorus about the soundtrack. It’s worth the download alone. Who created/performed it. It sounds like Riders in the Sky, or Time Jumpers

  8. keith
    January 3rd
    2009 at 8:57 pm

    why is there no overhead view of tinker..too often there are parts of the board that are hidden no matter which of the four view one looks at..an overhead view option is needed to give perspective and show elements that are blocked by blocks..

  9. M D A
    April 9th
    2009 at 10:36 am

    this games is so cool but don’t work in xp sp2 so theirs no any update make the game work in xp sp2
    a lot of people like this game and want to play this game on any Microsoft windows not only vista

  10. Hugo Duenas
    August 5th
    2009 at 1:24 pm

    I´m sad… because I want to do a clean install of Windows 7 on my computer but the Tinker game will not more available on it. The tinker game is wonderful and I´m displeased that this exiting game is gone W7. Please let me know where can I download it.

  11. forteblast
    January 11th
    2010 at 2:36 pm

    The Games for Windows Live version of this game has a bug - Set 07, level 19 has a par energy of “-1″ and as a result you can’t get the achievement star for that level. So you can’t get the “Perfection Achieved” achievement in Games for Windows Live for getting the achievement star for all levels in the game.

    Any chance this bug will be fixed?

  12. Hans Moleman
    January 20th
    2010 at 3:48 pm

    the GfWL achievement for “conquer all sets” is broken :-(
    nice game anyways, really enjoyed it!

  13. Nick Iannitti
    January 28th
    2010 at 12:22 pm

    I’ve gotten word from Microsoft and our dev team that the problem has been resolved–thanks for the heads up!

  14. Niko
    March 2nd
    2010 at 4:23 pm

    Still no patch for the achievement.. :(

  15. Steve
    March 4th
    2010 at 7:06 pm

    Thanks for the heads up, Nick — but it looks like the game is still glitched! Can we please get an update on the “Perfection Achieved” cheevo?

  16. Infinitism
    March 7th
    2010 at 12:26 am

    Any update on this Nick? Or is it completely in Microsoft’s control at this point?

  17. Nick Iannitti
    March 7th
    2010 at 5:00 pm

    Hey everyone, thanks for your patience on this–we had sent the fix over to the GFWL team a while back, I have gotten word that the fix is now set so that it will be auto pushed on launch + login to LIVE.

    Please feel free to get in touch if there are any continuing issues. Cheers!

  18. AraknidX
    March 12th
    2010 at 10:05 am

    Nick there’s still no sign of this patch. Any chance you can get a release date from the GFWL team?

  19. Mike
    March 13th
    2010 at 11:33 pm

    I launched tinker right now and logged in without any patch or updates.

  20. Nick Iannitti
    March 15th
    2010 at 9:58 am

    I’ve just received word from MS on this. Apparently the fix had been up for a small while but removed again due to a bug in Tinker’s auto-update code that was causing unnecessary reboots for a few users.

    The good news is, MS has informed me of a fix for that bug that is being released March 18th, and that’s when it’s expected for the Tinker update to go live as well. So hopefully we can get you folks your 1000 points before the week is up!

    Thanks again for your patience, everyone

  21. Kane75
    March 16th
    2010 at 6:57 am

    Good new ! But tinker = 200G not 1000

  22. NiGHTSfan
    April 5th
    2010 at 7:31 pm

    We have yet to see any patch/fix. Response?

  23. gunnar
    April 8th
    2010 at 9:58 pm

    Why don’t you all just man up and just say it won’t get patched

  24. Sibahi
    April 10th
    2010 at 10:00 am

    it’s April 10th already

  25. Nick Iannitti
    April 12th
    2010 at 3:20 pm

    Hey everyone–I’m happy to say that the patch is now fully live. Thanks for your bearing with us through a bit of confusion, and I hope you all enjoy your 200GS!

  26. Nick Iannitti
    April 12th
    2010 at 3:34 pm

    or, rather, “1000″ as I am known to say ;)

  27. Niref
    April 13th
    2010 at 9:45 pm

    Thanks for the patch :D, Tinker is a cool game and good game…, again thanks (1000G lol XD)

  28. MadHamish
    June 18th
    2010 at 5:45 pm

    I have to own this soundtrack. Really, I am totally in love with the music of the game. Where can I find it?

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