Game Maker for Mac Soon
YoYo Games has begun porting the Game Maker engine for the Mac, with plans to release a beta before the end of the year. Users will soon have the option to develop games on the Mac as well as run on the Mac.
This is carried out in parallel with work on writing the Game Maker runner in C++, which could eventually mean that games could possibly run on other devices such as the Nintendo DS.
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The slight hint towards the DS is pretty big - good news to us GM developers out there.
Posted by: Kairos | September 11, 2007 4:11 AM
Heh, you could also mention that the other amateur game creator, Multimedia Fusion 2, is getting Hardware Acceleration and an option to create Java executables thus making it available (to a point) for pretty much anything that can run Java :) - which I believe is quite a lot of things...Of course it actually has to happen (ETA:Christmas) for this actually mean anything
Posted by: Jimbob | September 11, 2007 10:12 AM
Both great developments; this will benefit developers and gamers alike in the long run.
Posted by: haowan | September 11, 2007 10:35 AM
Wow i think it's a great news if there is some developer that plans for making some commercial game usingo the gamemakers..In particular the java thing is very appetible, considering th mobile phone game is very good.. or not?
Posted by: FireSword | September 12, 2007 12:20 PM
Unfortunately it'll be another year or two at least before Multimedia Fusion is a good candidate for mobile games. They have incredibly strict limitations for memory and MMF applications squander resources.
Posted by: Ben2theEdge | September 12, 2007 8:05 PM
any news on the mac version? I hope there is not too much delay as there is often in software related projects
Posted by: projectmanagment | April 16, 2008 9:55 AM
Yes! I had used gm on the family windows machine for a long time, and was sad when I got a mac and wasn't able to use gm anymore. I have winxp on parallels, but without a mouse some of the mouse/keyboard combinations are difficult to do through parallels (i.e. right click+ctrl - with the trackpad, parallels reads this as left click since ctrl click and right click are the same thing - I hope they fix this)
Posted by: Alex Florez | June 1, 2008 6:03 AM
When will the MAC version be available?
Posted by: Paul Stege | August 5, 2008 5:23 AM