Automation - Minimum Requirements

[Killrob]

To be very honest about it: Yes it is a shame that Automation can't be multi-platform... but what more is a shame is that a 2-man dev team does not have 64-hour days. Multi-platform development takes a lot from a developer, and better sacrifice 10% of the possible consumer base, than sacrifice 30%+ of the game's features.

Very true Killrob. It would be a lot of time and effort for a small gain in potential customer base. Cost / Benefit is much slanted against it.

I assume that not many companies will be purchasing games for their staff to use, so for any business to ignore 25% of the domestic user market seems odd to me... potential lost revenue for a fledgling business. True that many more games are written for the windows platform, and that's partly down to legacy. This isn't supposed to be a Apple/ IBM debate string, and my outlook is to let everyone enjoy their own choices... diversity brings evolution.
As a small games developer, it may just be too much of an investment to consider amending the scripts for 'the lesser mac' as well. That is a shame for me and others on alternative platforms as this particular game doesn't require a custom spec machine with stratospheric levels of computing power.
Again I say, good luck to the developers in pursuing this great game concept. Windows users, enjoy it... and let me know what it's like.
M

just seen the two posts above which were added as I composed mine (I write slow)

fair points both of them

[Daffyflyer]

Its difficult to port what we've done to Mac, it won't make us back our money, and in the end, if we want to get time to make games we need to put food on the table... Nuff said..

[zeussy]

I assume that not many companies will be purchasing games for their staff to use, so for any business to ignore 25% of the domestic user market seems odd to me... potential lost revenue for a fledgling business. True that many more games are written for the windows platform, and that's partly down to legacy. This isn't supposed to be a Apple/ IBM debate string, and my outlook is to let everyone enjoy their own choices... diversity brings evolution.
As a small games developer, it may just be too much of an investment to consider amending the scripts for 'the lesser mac' as well. That is a shame for me and others on alternative platforms as this particular game doesn't require a custom spec machine with stratospheric levels of computing power.
Again I say, good luck to the developers in pursuing this great game concept. Windows users, enjoy it... and let me know what it's like.
M

Well, according to our site statistics, 4% of all our visitors and Mac based in the last month, and if we count just new visitors it makes 6%. I know quite a few people who have brought macs, but run windows it on, because they like the build quality, which is fair enough.

I think that most Mac owners who play games will have a windows emulator/virtual machine/whatever the cool kids run these days.

most vastly overestimate their marketshare. Once they are running Windows they are not running a mac but a limited hardware PC.

As a quasi-Mac fan but PC gamer, 25 percent is VASTLY overrating Apple's computer market share for home use. Remember that Macs are used in the office too, the most use I ever got out of them was in an educational setting.

Is this good:

Windows 7 Home Premium

Proccesor: AMD Athlon II Dual-Core M300 2.00 GHz

RAM: 3GB (2.75GB Usable)

System Type: 64-Bit Operating System