MAC AND PC DEPLOYMENT

Giuseppe_Crugliano

Hello Gorkem and Atilim,
I've sent you several email regarding the PC and MAC deployment. We found that our game can have a further biz dev on those platforms. Can we talk about this opportunity?

ananasblau

Oh that's one topic I was also thinking about, though I come from the other end with my games usual done in LÖVE for windows, mac and linux.

As far as I understand porting: More often than not they are forks from the original codebase, many studios might even outsource the porting to experts for the specific platform.

But being a solo dev, I'm strongly thinking about adding an thin interface between my game and the respective engine APIs. Anyone tried that approach yet?

atilim

Giuseppe, currently our next target is Windows Phone 8. And then we have plans to target Windows and Mac.

OZApps

@ananasblau
Are you Brasilian? Because your name sounds like "Blue Pineapple".

Regarding the interface or stub to run/port it is a lot of work however like many developers did for Codea, they created a Löve library to run codea apps on the desktop. The point still remains to make these into an executable. On windows the easiest way would have been to copy the resources onto the exe stub but that is not the same as creating native executables. I think that stubs will be the way as even on the mobile devices most of the frameworks have a stub that then tuns the rest of the resources/assets.

I am sure if you open source this project, you might find a couple of developers that might join in to help create this.

moopf

Gah, still barking up the Windows Phone 8 tree. Shame that.

hgvyas123

@ozapps

well in Gideros you should mix some languages like c,c++,java... but mixing the gujarati with english is great

OZApps

@hgvyas, gujalish is not what many can understand

hgvyas123

ohh another word invented "gujalish"

techdojo

@scouser speaks fluent "gujalish" on his way home from the pub on a Friday|Saturday|Sunday evening

hgvyas123

@techdojo :-

if you use words like "PUB" any more you will definitely loose your star :ar!

Scouser

@techdojo: You spelled gibberish wrong. I Speak fluent gibberish on the way home from the pub, but only on days with 'D' in them

Giuseppe_Crugliano

Atilim do you have a timeline? Having the game already on Apple store and in few days on GooglePlay it would have been perfect time for cross promotion.

When we could expect Windows and Mac deployment? Windows 8 time?

atilim

Still working on it and I cannot give a time estimation. It's a long process.

Platypus

Dear all,

My vote is for Windows Phone 8 first, then desktops.

Cheers,
Platypus

BJG

I guess something like BlueStacks is no use...?

http://www.bluestacks.com/

phongtt

This looks interesting: http://www.bluestacks.com/promot-your-app.html
Anyone tried it yet?

OZApps

Do developers have to pay these guys to convert and promote?? Where's the business model for developers to make money?