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Major gaming news at WWDC: Metal and New games
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Plenty of people write mobile games in Swift. It just shows the state of Apple's eco system. Some stuff is buggy and has not been fixed in years. Also, think a little deeper. Where do the tools come from that developers need on macOS? Let's say Unity... Mono, IL2CPP, etc. It's not like the tools are only "broken" using Swift. Working in Unity, there's plenty of stuff broken on macOS, stuff that's not been fixed in years and always require workarounds. Try a Unity HDRP project and look at how shadow casting for directional lights works. This stuff needs to be fixed. Using any tool, Unity, Unreal, or whatever it is, I'd expect these tools to work the same on all platforms.
Also, people are not buying Macs for gaming. They may play games on their Macs, so a better base system is more important. Developing regular apps is much more attractive to developers than developing games. There's a larger audience. So getting things right and listen to pretty much the entire developer community complaining about certain things is an important step in the right direction. Part of this problem are annual OS updates for every platform. New features here, change stuff there and a bunch of new emojis is selling hardware while the core problems remain unfixed.
I would think that any commercial Swift development effort on non-Apple platform would be slim to none, as there wouldn't be any commercial support for it. There no one the developer can turn to if they hit issues using the Swift framework on Windows for example.
With M3 I'm hoping for the rumored ray tracing cores that was supposed to be introduced with A16.
www.macworld.com
We're about to see what the Mac can really do when it's finally set free
Apple is about to unleash the full power of the Mac.
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I found another site about steam games where Mac gamers can write reviews and share info about how well the games work on Apple Silicon:
Steamed Apples
Read and write performance reviews about Steam games running on Apple computers
www.steamedapples.com
Uncrashed: FPV Drone Simulator got a "major update" yesterday and now works on all AS Macs and some Intel Macs.
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MacOs & New map :: Uncrashed : FPV Drone Simulator Events & Announcements
MacOs support for intel & M1 // Stadium map View full event information here: https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/1682970/announcements/detail/3685672640042071146
Interesting, requires a controller, but doesn't support VR.Uncrashed: FPV Drone Simulator got a "major update" yesterday and now works on all AS Macs and some Intel Macs.
MacOs & New map :: Uncrashed : FPV Drone Simulator Events & Announcements
MacOs support for intel & M1 // Stadium map View full event information here: https://steamcommunity.com/ogg/1682970/announcements/detail/3685672640042071146
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Its been out on Steam longer but that being said Apple's App Stores prices never drop.
I am talking about the fact that games and apps are often overpriced compared to Steam or buying standalone from the developer.
This is why Resident Evil 8 is cheaper on Steam and even goes on sale unlike the App Store version. On Steam even high sellers go on sale.
You have to admit Steam does make it easier to find games that are on sale though (it is way more obvious they are as well).
Well it’s up to the developers so they’re not matching prices for whatever reason (probably much fewer sales of their product)
Wait, I thought Apple fixed the Nanite issue with Metal 3?
As an aside, it is a shame Apple refuses to allow the Mac Pro folks with AMD 6000-series GPU's to use the HW RT they have.
Speaking of discounts on MAS vs Steam MAS has 25% discount on RE Village. The price is now equal to the normal price on Steam, 39.99.