Jumpgate Evolution to see OSX??
I first saw a demo of Jumpgate Evolution at PAX in August. I was very impressed but disappointed that the game would only be coming out for PC at that time. I spoke to the developers there (NetDevil) and their opinion of a port to the Mac was surprisingly open and positive…they liked the idea, but it wasn’t in the works quite yet. They wanted to see what would happen as the game got closer to launch.
As I was trolling the news today, I saw a post on Slashdot regarding an interview with a developer at Netdevils, and though, hmm, I haven’t checked out what’s been happening with JGE recently. So I hoped onto the forums and did a little searching. And guess what yumminess I found?
In a forum post regarding ports to alternative platforms, a JGE wiki editor named Aeon responds with comments about how the lack of alternative ports (other than to Xbox 360…makes sense, it’s starting on Windows) is mostly due to lack of manpower…they have 18 people developing the game, which is pretty small for a MMOG.
Now, it would have been nice to see a developer actually weigh in on the discussion (it being in the developer chat forum, after all), but no go for now. So this is all just speculation. But it is nice to see that the the possibility exists, and that the main barrier seems to be manpower, not bias.
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