Apple's Game Porting Toolkit is helpful for developers, former Apple software engineer Nat Brown explains, but it still has a lot of work to do to encourage more games to get made for macOS.
Yeah, for Mac gaming to be sustainable IMO they need to first, either get their head out their ass regarding Vulkan and OpenGL, or make Metal cross-platform. Nobody wants to write their usually extremely complex renderer for two different platform APIs (though tbh, seems like MoltenVK has that pretty well covered by now). Second, focus on API stability. If not as part of the base system, at least old system libraries should be able to be installed so old games can still run. This wouldn’t be as much of a problem if they were an open-source platform and all games were open-source, but they’re not. Third, work with Valve or other distributors instead of going off doing their own thing selling games on the App Store when you then can’t use that license for other platforms.
Otherwise, it’s going to stay a curiosity for more technically inclined end users like me who use the Game Porting Toolkit to play Windows games at a questionable frame rate when not at home at the powerful Linux PC.
Yeah, for Mac gaming to be sustainable IMO they need to first, either get their head out their ass regarding Vulkan and OpenGL, or make Metal cross-platform. Nobody wants to write their usually extremely complex renderer for two different platform APIs (though tbh, seems like MoltenVK has that pretty well covered by now). Second, focus on API stability. If not as part of the base system, at least old system libraries should be able to be installed so old games can still run. This wouldn’t be as much of a problem if they were an open-source platform and all games were open-source, but they’re not. Third, work with Valve or other distributors instead of going off doing their own thing selling games on the App Store when you then can’t use that license for other platforms.
Otherwise, it’s going to stay a curiosity for more technically inclined end users like me who use the Game Porting Toolkit to play Windows games at a questionable frame rate when not at home at the powerful Linux PC.
Ditching OpenGL was a truly shit move from Apple.