How did you find Altitude? page 1

TiamatStudios

01-06-2010, 06:05 AM

Hey as a very old player to altitude i was curious how some of you all found out about altitude. I did a poll to make it easy of a few places, enjoy!

evilarsenal

01-06-2010, 06:13 AM

Bebop and Protoman in the day were middle school friends of mine

They introduced it to me 2002

spc

01-06-2010, 06:15 AM

i found out about altitude at the Apple website

GGQ

01-06-2010, 06:21 AM

thread on teamliquid.net

doesn't quite fit into any of those

TiamatStudios

01-06-2010, 06:24 AM

Very nice, i have played it since back when it was a java applet game in 2d that was a very fun multiplayer game. The new version is good too but sometimes the un-commercialized version is fun to load up. Im pretty sure i was playing back when Bebop and Protoman were, im pretty sure you were as well. Good to see some old players are still here!

DiogenesDog

01-06-2010, 06:32 AM

Yeah, teamliquid really should get its own poll option. Huge wave of ppl from there.

TiamatStudios

01-06-2010, 06:35 AM

Yeah i forgot a few but unfortunately it wont let me edit the polls or add to them. If it did i would add ones like that to it!

Stormich

01-06-2010, 07:12 AM

Teamliquid!

nobodyhome

01-06-2010, 07:17 AM

looks like you managed to get teamliquid onto the poll. while you're at it you should probably add the apple.com store and the something awful forums to it, there were huge waves of people from both.

juggalo5671

01-06-2010, 07:19 AM

It got a good review from JIG so i thought I'd try it


http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/06/altitude.php

as red as black

01-06-2010, 08:02 AM

I blame Devils, Elite Agent, and Scheherazade....

Zombi

01-06-2010, 09:02 AM

Am I the only Steamnoob here? :(

Katsumi

01-06-2010, 10:45 AM

A member mentioned it on MacRumors and it looked pretty interesting, so I thought I'd try it out.

ORYLY

01-06-2010, 10:50 AM

Friend got it from TIGSource and showed it to me.

TiamatStudios

01-06-2010, 10:57 AM

whew got alot of replies already, im not sure how team liquid got listed, some forum moderator must of added it. If whoever added team liquid wants to add the others suggested go for it!
ha theres more sources talking about altitude then i realized! In fact i cannot remember how i originally found the first version made but i did and it was alot of fun!
heh yeah seems not many got it from steam, im actually going to buy it from steam really soon here but i did play the original so i choose that one.

Thank you all for your votes and comments, feel free to keep them coming! :)

Stormich

01-06-2010, 11:01 AM

Most of the Steamers don't know/care about the forum I guess :)

TiamatStudios

01-06-2010, 11:04 AM

true, there probably to busy playing the game or dont realize there even is a forum. Since steam doesnt give direct links to the site from your games list they would have to independently google it to find it if im not mistaken.

rotflolocopter

01-06-2010, 12:18 PM

or word of keyboard I guess :)

some dude made a comment on slashdot saying it was a great game. The topic was Linux gaming. I play on Windows and enjoy it a lot. First game I have bought in years.

Fatknacker

01-06-2010, 12:34 PM

i found out about altitude at the Apple website

Me too, Apples top five list.

Flyngbanana

01-06-2010, 12:45 PM

I swear a huge number of people found the game from 2+2.

As a result I unofficially vote 2+2. :)

tec27

01-06-2010, 10:30 PM

I swear a huge number of people found the game from 2+2.

As a result I unofficially vote 2+2. :)

Just vote TeamLiquid, its close enough :P (And probably how it got spread to 2+2 lol)

Tank

01-06-2010, 10:41 PM

I was just downloading games from apple.com to fill up my school laptop (before they blocked it). It looked ok, so i downloadd, and when i started playing, i couldn't stop.

Vania

01-06-2010, 11:09 PM

Independent Gaming Source

TiamatStudios

01-07-2010, 05:17 AM

Very nice, if you have another source not listed feel free to say it and a moderator will add it to the poll. Thanks for all the replies, its interesting to see where players find out about the game! :)

as red as black

01-07-2010, 06:53 AM

Am I the only Steamnoob here? :(

no, you're the only steam noob that knows there are forums haha

hurripilot

01-07-2010, 07:52 AM

Mac Game Files, baby! :)

Element

01-07-2010, 09:12 AM

found out via the apple website on games.

Bukem

01-07-2010, 11:12 AM

I swear a huge number of people found the game from 2+2.

As a result I unofficially vote 2+2. :)

+1

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duck

01-08-2010, 02:57 AM

Some guy made a thread about it on a forum I post at. A few people joined, I'm the only one that still plays.

Sarah Palin

01-08-2010, 05:17 AM

It got a good review from JIG so i thought I'd try it


http://jayisgames.com/archives/2009/06/altitude.php

Same here.

Death Rod

01-08-2010, 05:47 PM

you know u should have added other because my bro told me about the game, But i will go with google

Stormich

01-08-2010, 06:03 PM

Uhm... Friend referral?

tec27

01-08-2010, 11:03 PM

Uhm... Friend referral?

Brothers can't be friends, Stormich. Just like you don't marry your cousin. Get with the program you incestuous pervert.

-MH-CaptainVogez

01-09-2010, 12:17 AM

Uhm... Friend referral?

Brothers can't be friends, Stormich. Just like you don't marry your cousin. Get with the program you incestuous pervert.

Owned. No other way to describe it.

In Aussie slagg we'd say our brother is our best Mate. But lo-and-behold people like Texas take it out of context and into a more horrifying viewpoint.

Anyway I now got my bro up and flying the Altitude skies - so thats a friend /mate referral :)

zwanglos

01-09-2010, 07:00 AM

Picked it up during the $10 sale on Steam.

chippy

01-09-2010, 09:38 PM

Something Awful.

TiamatStudios

01-11-2010, 04:26 AM

That got off topic quite a bit, thanks everyone for your posts. Hows everyone enjoying altitude so far?

Phenoca

01-11-2010, 05:35 AM

Steam.

I found it enjoyable yet I would like to see macros for communicating (e.g. Attack, Defend, Need Help, Regroup, Target their <plane type>, Target their Turrets, Good job, Good game, Back to base, Get the ball, Get the bomb, Get the powerup, Get health, Attack my Target, Go high, Go low, Go middle, Stay back, Get in Front, GoGoGo!, Be careful, Change the map, Follow, Retreat).

Beagle

01-11-2010, 01:30 PM

A friend of mine, who browsed Teamliquid, heard about it through there and played back when it was in beta and completely free. He was a massive troll and he also stopped playing soon after he introduced me, but I evidently stuck around.

Ajuk999

01-11-2010, 06:00 PM

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/8451/altu.png (http://img341.imageshack.us/i/altu.png/)

This is where I was introduced to the Altitude Game. You have to admit, cheesy games don't make it to the Apple website Downloads Page, I have played it since right around December 2008 I believe.

Mac

01-12-2010, 01:15 AM

I found this off the Apple site too. I'd just gotten my MacBook Pro and was astounded to find that Macs do TOO have games! A little over 1200, at time of posting. As being one of the better ones, I jumped on it... around March of 2009.

Carbon

01-12-2010, 01:19 AM

somethingawful dot com

Lamster posted a thread there about this being in beta and I've been playing ever since

Torrent

01-12-2010, 01:25 AM

Apple's rule
not to be an idiot or anything but i purposely said apple instead of mac

strrrrront

01-12-2010, 02:20 AM

Something Awful.

same here, although I only lurk SA of course.

yoshi

01-12-2010, 03:04 AM

TAYLOOP, Evan20k, and I were all referred by a friend back in April or May on a forum we frequent, or at least me and Evan still do.

Reach

01-12-2010, 03:13 AM

Totally by chance.

porpus

01-12-2010, 04:37 AM

Years ago Fargo posted this as his Indie game of the day on gamespy and it very briefly made the front page (This was before IGN bought it out and made it gayer). Saw it on there and gave it a shot.

_micro

01-13-2010, 02:11 AM

Funny story actualy: I was on my pc for the first time in about 3 months because I was bored and so I looked for some demo's in Steam. After a few minutes playing I discovered there is a Mac version too. So now I'm adicted. Thanks. :mad:

Scythrop

01-13-2010, 02:21 PM

Saw a little icon of a biplane in the "recommended games" section of Jayisgames.com.

DiogenesDog

01-13-2010, 04:21 PM

Years ago Fargo posted this as his Indie game of the day on gamespy and it very briefly made the front page (This was before IGN bought it out and made it gayer). Saw it on there and gave it a shot.

Oh cool, didn't know about that.

Sad bit of trivia: After I saw that Fargo write an article about Intellivision Biplanes (which was the original inspiration for Altitude), I told Lam that he should email Fargo and let him know about the game. He did and Fargo not only liked it, but he made a bunch of very nice maps and wanted to pimp it on Gamespy.

So many years went by and eventually the new Alt got made with pretty graphics and all that. Lam was about 3 weeks from starting to contact press to try to get notice... and I saw that Fargo had jumped ship from Gamespy and was now working at Blizzard where he was now useless.

fricking heartbreaking :(

TiamatStudios

01-18-2010, 07:06 AM

thanks for the replies, i didnt realize so many came from the apple store pages. Good to see that so many people enjoy the game. And that is pretty sad though working for blizzard isnt entirely horrible, if you did you would probably become part of the WoW army devoted to keeping people addicted to the game. With 9 million+ players id dare say they succeeded! Anyway back on topic, thanks again for the replies and votes its fun to see how people found the game!

porpus

01-19-2010, 01:45 AM

Oh cool, didn't know about that.

Sad bit of trivia: After I saw that Fargo write an article about Intellivision Biplanes (which was the original inspiration for Altitude), I told Lam that he should email Fargo and let him know about the game. He did and Fargo not only liked it, but he made a bunch of very nice maps and wanted to pimp it on Gamespy.

So many years went by and eventually the new Alt got made with pretty graphics and all that. Lam was about 3 weeks from starting to contact press to try to get notice... and I saw that Fargo had jumped ship from Gamespy and was now working at Blizzard where he was now useless.

fricking heartbreaking :(

Ya! When Lam opened up I sent a couple emails to fargo@gamespy.com only to have them kicked back to me as an invalid address :(.