Hi Travis,
The 10 to 15 order figure was only a guess on my part, based on the fact
that direct requests from Mac users for ports have been so few. It is a
costly endeavour to port over an entire game engine from Windows to Mac,
mainly in time spent but there will also be some investment involved. And so
before I take on such a venture I need to be certain that I will at least
get a few hundred sales from Mac users; the same as I do on Windows.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Travis Siegel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] programming
Actually, there are several games on the mac. Hundreds, thousands even,
but I assume you were talking about games for the blind only.
Well, those exist too.
Besides some written in java, you can go to:
http://www.softcon.com/mac/
and check out the programs (including some games) I've ported/written for
the mac.
Unfortunately, programming on the mac using apple provided tools isn't as
easy as it could be, and that's why there's not a whole lot of mac
development happening for blind developers.
However, I disagree with the 10-15 registrations you might get out of the
mac number.
There's literally hundreds of users on the various mac lists I'm on, and I
know for a fact, at least half of those users are waiting for mac ports of
games, so you are selling yourself short if you think there's only 10
folks who will register your game.
On the other hand, everything I've made is free, so all I have for numbers
is downloads, but in all cases, they've reached tripple digits, so take
from that what you will.
philip it is ashame you can't make your game engine mac compatible as
well. as a matter of fact, why aren't people who are making supposedly mac
playable games like draconis, helping developers like philip?
no proof as of yet of a mac playable game has come into existance as of
yet
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