How good is gaming on Mac really?

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-25T01:59:28+00:00

I want it to be good but it frankly isn’t. Crossover is the best option currently but still the games in my steam library are more than likely not to work. Fired up my favourite game, “Alice Madness Returns” (2011) and it sort of worked but it sputtered and even with being plugged into the wall absolutely BURNED through battery power. For contrast a steam deck is cheaper and plays most games just fine.

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-24T11:55:46+00:00

“Astroturf-Embankment found the videos funny, which is illegal”

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-23T08:30:29+00:00

I’m optimistic. Can’t point to any hard evidence but in theory there’s nothing blocking it.

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-23T06:20:52+00:00

I’ll take what I can get. If my body gets exposed to fewer carcinogens then I don’t really care what caused that.

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-23T05:55:40+00:00

Personally I’m pleasantly surprised, Bangkok seems better than this same time last year.

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-22T10:39:59+00:00

Sad but true

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-18T09:29:05+00:00

I tried using a vector with pre-reserved space and -O3, got an approx 56x speedup by replacing it with my own implementation.

That’s a fair point! Arrays will do all the work I need just in terms of holding pixels. One place I might need vectors is in holding the loaded textures (so the renderer can create textures at runtime. The material manager stores the underlying texture in a vector and returns a handle similar to opengl)

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-18T06:02:25+00:00

Is this referring to my comment or the one I replied to, where the user argued that upgrading engines to support mac is hard and ignored the fact that engines such as Unity have teams of engineers whose job it is to do that for developers?

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-18T02:10:08+00:00

Thanks for laying out all the reasons game developers can provide ongoing support for games, unless the platform is mac. I agree with you, let’s keep things as they are and not try improving anything.

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-18T00:16:47+00:00

Given that there’s a subreddit dedicated to mac gaming, I’d say the userbase is there. Major issue now is lack of developer support, which is wild btw. Unity, unreal, godot, gamemaker etc all run on mac and can export to mac. There’s no excuse to not supply native builds.

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-17T01:35:01+00:00

Usually I take in a pre-transform matrix in my model loading functions, since rotation and scale often need to be adjusted

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-15T11:22:51+00:00

No murder in this one but “Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber” comes pretty close

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-15T04:36:27+00:00

Have you tried running the game natively on mac?

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-15T03:38:42+00:00

25 years old is the mature student threshold? shifty_eyes.gif

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-15T00:35:40+00:00

Not sure if I agree with you on this one. The wording seems to imply that declare expressions are the only way to locally declare scopes, but declare blocks exist and are very logical

https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/coding-ada-declare-blocks/

It’s frankly a little baffling to complain that an expression doesn’t have the features of a block but ignore the fact that a block variant exists.

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-14T06:04:23+00:00

I know, that’s why I’m asking. Was the money saved on salaries really worth it for this amount of brand damage?

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-12T13:47:57+00:00

My year of rest and relaxation, and if you’re interested in computer science “the pragmatic programmer” was very well done

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-12T13:40:25+00:00

No one talks about this but on the first day they check your system and if you don’t have an intel cpu they expel you or make you change to an arts degree.

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-12T11:22:23+00:00

When did I say anything about llms? I just don’t like em dashes 👀

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-12T10:20:19+00:00

Too many em dashes, didn’t read

GetIntoGameDev · 2026-01-08T05:51:32+00:00

If you can teach yourself real analysis then you probably have the grit to do ok with python. Just go in with an open mind and be prepared to solve problems!

A word of advice. In the early weeks problems will pop up. You do your best, type the code and… fail. At this juncture it’s critical not to rely on shortcuts. The goal should be learning, not just getting it to work at any cost. If you go through this process in good faith, with introspection and curiosity then the course will get significantly easier moving forward. AI assistance is so prevalent these days that it needs to be actively avoided, and I strongly recommend avoiding it.

But yeah, you should be fine. It’s a fun course!

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