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Sep 2008
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Microsoft Tinker Extra released to Windows Vista Ultimate users

Amongst today’s release of yet more lethargy-inducing Dreamscene videos, was a cute isometric robot game put together by the creative Fuel Industries shop, for Microsoft (and ultimately us). It’s called Tinker and the objective is to complete levels by navigating the robot around various obstacles to reach the end. Sounds easy, right? Yeah, that’s what we all said about Portal…

Finished all 60 maps already? While waiting for the next “regularly scheduled” push out of levels, you can download the very editor used by the team and build your own levels for exchange with friends. Or you could record gameplay videos. Or you could even try your hand at unlocking all the achievements and passing each level under par. Or you could just sit and listen to the music. You get the idea.

Productivity levels around the world will be at an all-time low this week. Let’s hope IT administrators can block this via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)…

  • Brendan

    Tinker looks awesome! But it won’t work for me >.<! I run it, and nothing happens, besides my CPU being pushed to 100%. Hate those dreamscene videos, I dunno why they even bothered. Any help with Tinker would be greatly apprectiated.

  • http://www.uxevangelist.net Stephen

    Pun intended when you said, “(and ULTIMATEly us)”? KEKEKEKE!

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  • http://youth4life.xtreemhost.com/ Paul

    Looks alright, doesn’t justify buying Ultimate (if all you’re after is the extras). :/ But, they’re making progress :)

    Waiting for the article “How Extras know they’re on Vista Ultimate”. :)

  • michale pentland

    THIS LOOKS RETARDED

  • Gaylord Folker

    It looks like a nice game
    but yah it wont work for me either… when i try to run the tinker nothing happens and my cpu core1 raised to 100% . i checkd the task manager and the lsass.exe consume that 50% of the CPU load. Is their a bug in this game? and how to fix this? (”, )

    tnx..

  • http://members.chello.nl/m.rheenen82 Machiel van Rheenen

    Hmmm.. havent noticed any bugs myself. It runs like a dream.
    Then again, I use a quadcore and dual sli, no that’s not just for running Vista =), but that really helps.

    For the persons calling tinker “Retarded” I have made some custom levels to up the ante.
    Check em out. Beeing backward is not a prerequisite for these levels, but haveing a certain autistic affinity might help. And I am referring to the autobots there, not autism.
    Get the Next ten levprerequisiteels at: Http://members.chello.nl/m.rheenen82

    Enjoy.
    Mac

  • JK

    This is a very fun game and works your brain to a good degree sometimes. It is definitely not a huge landscape, blow things up, FPS game. It is a Windows game. Its sort of like Minesweeper in that you have to negotiate around obstacles to get to the finish – in this case a spinning circle with candy-cane red and white.

    You also have to watch you don;t use all of the robot’s energy or it stops before you are done and you have to start over on the level.

    You only get so many moves per level and you must you them efficiently to complete the level and get to the disc.

  • Glen

    I love Tinker! Its a great little game!! It’s perfect for the lunchtime break at the desk!! Sure its not truly of “Ultimate” value and yes Microsoft missed the boat completely on the Ultimate sku but thats life and you move on!

    Machiel – I tried to download the zip file for all your levels but I couldn’t as a right click/save as would only try saving the html itself (??) while left clicking on the link took me off to a whole ‘nother web site?? I could download each of the single levels though.

  • Peter

    Works great for me, am running vista ultimate on a dual core laptop with a 128mb intel graphics, and not a slowdown in sight.
    Nice little addition to the windows packaged games, shame they didn’t release it for all versions thought, i think going in these dirwections have a negative rather than positive effect on the business. I mean it’s not as if the masses are going to start upgradng to the ultiamte version for $60 or whatever it is just to get access to a few extra games and nick nacks!!

  • Bob

    I had the same problem running it as Brendan and Gaylord Folker. Got around it by right clicking on it and running it as adminstrator. Does anyone know of any way around this?

  • Me

    Haven’t been able to open it, as an administrator or otherwise, do any of you have a guess?

  • Rachael

    Hi all trying to get through Set 1 Level 12. Any hints :/

  • http://www.gameboy7020.hi5.com Melvin

    Hi all,

    I didn’t check the box while the Utimates extra was available and now i want to instaal the game n e way.
    What to do now?
    Thanx in advance for the solutions

  • http://www.2rapid-downloads.blogspot.com abdul raheem

    hi all,
    i sure love this game some good levels too, for Dreamscene so crap videos so i used some of mine from animation movies like Final fantasy and Ice Age and guys this looks really good, try it and see the diffrence.