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Glider

A paper airplane. A house full of danger. One way out.


The Game

Glider is an action game for the Macintosh written by John Calhoun (Soft Dorothy Software). You pilot a paper airplane through the rooms of a house, riding updrafts from heating vents and avoiding everything else -- bouncing basketballs, dripping faucets, popping toast, enemy paper planes, and the family cat. Each room is a side-view cross section. Get through the last room and you escape the house.


Version History

Version Year Publisher Notes
Glider 1.0 1988 Soft Dorothy (shareware) Original release. Black and white. One house, 15 rooms.
Glider 2.0 1989 Soft Dorothy (shareware) Added background art and new obstacles.
Glider 3.0 1991 Soft Dorothy (shareware) New house, more rooms, added a cat as a final obstacle. Still B&W.
Glider 4.0 1991 Casady & Greene First commercial release. Color graphics. Level editor included. Multi-story house with many new objects. Also released for Windows.
Glider PRO 1994 Casady & Greene Definitive version. Larger houses (up to 40+ rooms), outdoor areas, new obstacles and puzzles, built-in house editor, support for user-created houses. PowerPC native.
Glider PRO (open source) 2003 John Calhoun (freeware) After Casady & Greene went bankrupt, rights reverted to Calhoun. Released for free, later open-sourced on GitHub.
Glider Classic 2014 Soft Dorothy (Mac App Store) OS X and iOS port. Still available.

Screenshots

Glider 3.12 (1991) -- Black and white, original Macintosh

Glider 3.12 gameplay

Glider 4.0 (1991) -- First color version, published by Casady & Greene

Glider 4.0 title screen
Title screen

Glider 4.0 gameplay
Gameplay -- note the heating vents, bookshelf, and dripping pipes

Glider PRO (1994) -- The definitive version

Glider PRO title screen
Title screen -- House: Slumberland

Glider PRO tutorial room
Tutorial room -- TV, teddy bear, staircase

Glider PRO gameplay
Switches and candles -- the rooms got complicated

Where to Get It


Screenshots from Macintosh Garden. Glider is © John Calhoun / Soft Dorothy Software.


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