Comments on: How Is It Like To Develop Games For Mac?

By: Eli

Eli — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:46:14 +0000

—ah Vista! haha–

I could install Vista yeah, but as it stands I’m mostly working either in flash or in unity, and both deploy cross-platform nicely. So I have no worries right now. I think in the event that I ever rustle up some of that money stuff… I’ll more than likely own both a macbook and a windows based notebook.

We’ll see how that goes!

By: col000r

col000r — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:43:01 +0000

check out Unity – http://unity3d.com

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:47:07 +0000

Good stuff, good stuff. I won’t be going to get iMac… since my idea is to get a laptop too :) Now I just hope Bmax will create iBMax at some point… ;)

@Mike: thanks for the cocos2d & SIO2 tips.

@Eli: luckily you can install Vista on your mac, right? :D

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:08:28 +0000

I got a mac about 2 years ago and never looked back. It was odd transitioning from visual studio/.net but once i accepted that it was different things went smoothly. I do .net work in my day job and after getting used to Xcode/cocoa .net is just a big ass pile of classes instead of a cohesive framework. I miss Xcode when i have to go back to visual studio.

Check out cocos2d for 2d games and SIO2 for 3d games as a great start if you do make the switch and decide to makde some iPhone games.

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:24:54 +0000

After using strictly “PC” rigs for years I picked up an iMac roughly two years back, and love it. My major issue is exactly as Paul says, compatibility testing. I’m going to upgrade to a more powerful Mac soon, though I suspect I’ll be dropping extra cash for power with portability. (I too can find no real reason to move back to Win)

Just my two cents.

By: tanseichi

tanseichi — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:08:16 +0000

At home I use a Mac mini (one of the recent ones with NVidia graphics) for everything. I’m currently trying to get into casual game development and I use the Novashell Game Engine because it’s cross platform. For random coding I use either XCode (which is good enough for me) but since I started out with BASIC years ago I’m also looking at BlitzMax which recently got an update for multithreading).

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:56:16 +0000

@Marcin: yeh, good piece of advice…

@tonic: cool :)

By: Marcin Seredynski

Marcin Seredynski — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:28:05 +0000

I’ve tried using a Mac after a dozen years of using PC. It just didn’t work for me. I got a MacBook Pro 15”, which worked well as a portable computer to watch movies on. I couldn’t really do anything productive on it (not counting the stuff one does on the Internet), and I really couldn’t change my habits. Maybe Macs work for some people, but I sold mine and got a nice 14” Acer Aspire 2930Z. So far it’s the best laptop I’ve ever had – light and portable. And I even do web development on it.

Borrow a MacBook and see how does it work for you, before buying one – that’s the best advice I can give.

By: tonic

tonic — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:49:01 +0000

@Juuso: ZB is mostly coded by memon (Mikko Mononen). He develops on Mac instead of using a partly pc based setup. :)

Just to clarify; mac is still required for iphone development since the SDK is available only for a mac. I just have a mac mini for that (any semi-recent intel-based laptop should be OK as well).

By: Juuso Hietalahti

Juuso Hietalahti — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:34:02 +0000

@tonic: sounds good (also checked your Zen Bound – looks just amazing!)

@paul: yeh, web games can become a headache for compatibility… do changes, test, test, test… do more changes, test, test, test again… :)