I still think about why it was that a game like EVO would have such a big impact on my life. The community around Ambrosia, and their games like EVO, was and still is awesome. I met more traveling to PAX, and many other meet-ups since. I met a bunch of them at Macworld in 2005. This game was basically where I found my first online community, people I still, to this day, talk to on an ancient IRC channel, and a small handful of Discord servers. ![]() It was the second of three games in a series, the most recent being EV Nova, which ended up getting ported to Windows after an initial Mac release. ![]() One of Ambrosia's most legendary games, that truly defined Mac gaming in the late 90s, early 2000s, was a game called Escape Velocity Override. Unfortunately, they weren't able to adapt when Macs and iOS became popular, and Apple's own stores made a shareware publisher like Ambrosia obsolete. ![]() Pretty sad, as Ambrosia used to be one of the major players in Mac gaming, especially in some of the darkest times in the Apple ecosystem. So, anyone remember the old Mac shareware company Ambrosia Software? Well, a while back their website went down for good after a long period of basically not being in business at all anymore.
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