Mac Game Devs Sound Off on Intel Switch
Just in case you missed it, Apple revealed that they are ditching the IBM PowerPC processor and switching over to Intel-based systems. It's a pretty big deal that has surprised, shocked, and scared many consumers and developers. Inside Mac Games contacted a handful of Mac game developers and got their reactions on the deal.
Peter Tamte, MacSoft/Destineer:There's also a huge piece by Ryan Gordan, Epic Games' cross platform developer. He covers a lot of ground, saying many middleware packages such as Havok have no excuse to not work on a Mac and the switch enables PC and Mac gamers to play together online and swap their game files.
We think Apple's move to Intel is great. For one thing, it demonstrates that Apple is really serious about giving Windows-based computing head-to-head competition. And, for another, it's going to narrow the gap between the release of a game on Windows and the release on Mac -- maybe to zero.
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Brian Greenstone - Pangea Software:
Once Windows runs natively on a Mac there won't be any reason for publishers to make Mac-specific versions of their warez anymore. It's going to totally kill the Mac game porting industry and probably have serious implications on original content developers like me.
"many middleware packages such as Havok have no excuse to not work on a Mac
omg, the only reaso..."106 Comments
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