'Cut the Rope' game makes it to Windows 8 preview

Published March 13, 2012 8:07pm

"Cut the Rope," the 99-cent addictive game-cum-physics lesson on the iPad and iPhone, has made it to the consumer preview of Microsoft's upcoming flagship OS Windows 8.

The game —where one hits floating stars to feed a blob and has been downloaded more than 60 million times— is one of the first apps to make it to the consumer preview.

At least one million people downloaded it from the Windows App Store in 24 hours, tech site Mashable reported.

The game, while developed by ZeptoLab, was ported by PixelLab —a small five-member development design shop, with Microsoft playing matchmaker, Mashable said.

PixelLab founder Robby Ingebretsen said Microsoft connected his firm with ZeptoLabs for a port to Microsoft's most recent browser, Internet Explorer 9.

"As a result, most of the heavy lifting, taking Cut the Rope’s C++ code and converting it to HTML 5 and JavaScript was done last year. The work to bring Cut the Rope to Windows 8 Metro was relatively trivial and took about 10 days," Mashable said.

Ingebretsen said he likes what he sees in Windows 8, adding Windows 8 is a high-quality platform without a lot of bugs and said it’s “ready to work with and has a set of features that make sense.”

While he said there are some feature tradeoffs, he did not elaborate.

Kind words for Windows 8

Ingebretsen has kind words for Windows 8, particularly when he used it on a tablet.

“I was really surprised how much I loved it. A lot of UI stuff really made sense to me. I think Microsoft is incredibly innovative with UI, more than Apple or Android–really pushing boundaries of what you can do in digital design,” he said.

But Mashable said Ingebretsen does worry that Microsoft is positioning Windows “as being a UI that’s touch first.”

“I don’t know ... If people are willing to make Windows touch first, yet. Not sure it feels right yet,” he said. — TJD, GMA News

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