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Mac OS X: Game Developer's Playground
Mauro Notarianni writes: "In the Stepwise article, 'Mac OS X: Game Developer's Playground,' Troy Stephens writes, "Mac OS X has the potential to be a superb launching pad for doing game development.'
The author describes how 'Cocoa's developer productivity benefits, when combined with Mac OS X's strong support for technologies such as OpenGL and QuickTime, can empower game developers to create the custom production tools they often need in a fraction of the programmer hours it takes on other platforms.'"
"Mac OS X has the potential to be a superb launching pad for doing game development". It may have the potential, but is there the market? The volume of Mac games has always traditionally been of the low side, not because of the limitations of the technology, but the number of consumers to make games software profitable.
If you want more portable games, why not write them using SDL? It seems perfect for the job...
Oi!!!! Moderators!!!! Yeah, I'm talking to you!!! What the fuck? Redundant? Show me a post talking about market viability prior to mine. And while you're at it, mod THIS as redundant.
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The movie industry has almost convinced me to stop using their product. Movie prices keep rising, the quality of the theatres keep dropping. I find it unacceptable to go to a theatre and see 5 minutes of "black rain" when there's a bright white scene. I think that movies are also moving into the abyss, much like music, but at a much slower pace. There are still enough people making interesting movies to keep my interest alive. So if I shirk theatres that's no big deal; it's simple to make a home theatre these days. And then there's the whole DVD and HDTV mess ... I'm still hoping the MPAA and FCC don't manage to do to movies what the music industry has done to music.
While I gave up on network TV a long time ago, I've found that many cable/satellite channels have quality entertainment in their lineups. Because of the sheer number of available channels, I always figured that cable/satellite TV would stay relatively unscathed by all the BS that has destroyed the music industry, and is gnawing at the movie industry. Then I read articles like this, and ones that talk about the fervent attepts to destroy the ability to record television programs. I can easily see television being the next media outlet that I throw away.
If there are any music/movie/television industry workers reading this thread, I just want to make it clear that in your rabid pursuit to further unbalance the scales of product and profit you are at the very least going to lose this customer. And I can't help but think there are others who feel the same.
I guess I'm done ranting for now.
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>Most posts here seem to comments that games on Mac OS X will never
>work because of lack of marketshare.
>The point of the article was _not_ to develop for Mac OS X, but to use
>custom tools to aid in developing for other platforms (PlayStation in
>the case of the article).
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Get real. If you Apple losers think Sony will ever adopt Quicktime or anything else from the Mac world for PS2 games you're nuts. Just look at Final Fantasy 10. This and other games was done without the use of OSX and I don't see this changing. Sony and the rest of the people developing PS2 games already have their own custom tools which they have developed and will continue to work on. I don't see them dumping these tools for some half-assed software created by the Mac crowd.
Ahahah 100fps ?! Wow that's a hint !
My engine does 1000 fps !
Hey lamer, when will you realize that precanned 3D engines are for newbies like you ?
Adios Mr.100fps.
Does anyone know here I can find a MacOS X programming job in the SF area? I'm very interested in getting one, but the regular job boards I look at never have any. Is there some place on the net where such things are posted? Or are there just not any such jobs??
My email address is in my profile.