RE: [GD-General] dev environments

[Philip H. <ph...@me...>]

> > Similarly there's many types of game where it's inefficient to run 
> > cross platform on the Mac.
> 
> Having done quite a bit of cross development work for 
> Mac/Windows, what types of games do you think are not 
> appropriate on the Mac?  I'm not disputing the claim - just 
> curious about your opinions.

I didn't phrase that very well, specifically I mean most console games. 
 
> Absolutely - one really nice tool I used in the past was 
> Resourcerer. It provided an environment for editing data 
> structures that only required a simple definition of how that 
> structure should be represented on disk. That, combined with 
> a spreadsheet for raw data, provided almost all the tooling 
> we needed for game development.

Sounds interesting, was this a Mac tool?
 
> > Given that we're considering porting a couple of titles to 
> the Mac I 
> > may have the opportunity to try out your suggestions in the future.
> 
> Will this be OS X only or will you support older versions of 
> the OS? Many modern games do not port well to older Mac OS 
> versions.  This is especially true for games that rely on 
> virtual memory and file i/o performance.

It will be modern Macs only although I couldn't tell you exactly which
ones yet :)

Phil