I think after the MMOG project abandon Op group should have focus on engine development.

From this article I believe it is much worth to port GameStudio (A8?) to Mac, at lease allow publish to Mac.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/...inux-gaming.ars

it's probably won't just be a port, kinda more like major rewrite. I personally dont expect such thing before a8.

if 3DGS would support Mac I would be freaking out, that would be the best ever and a big step to prevent developer to move to Unity!

As said mutiple times, the core of A7 is based on DirectX. So this would be more or less a rewrite of the engine core and I doubt this is going to happen anytime soon unless someone shows some dollars.

I think there's not that much gamers on Mac.

Maybe it would be easier to get it run on an XBox ?!?

Our plans about other platforms are:

- We won't support Mac. With Bootcamp etc. Gamestudio already runs on the Mac.
- We won't support Linux, with exception of a possible future Linux server.
- We can port finished games to consoles on request, with approval of the console manufacturer.
- We will possibly add phone/PDA platform support in future versions.

that being limited to windows smartphones or androids and iphone included?

I'm working on getting acknex running on windows mobile 6 now, through the .NET compact framework. Failing that, use win32. But I don't have much time to work on it at the moment.

However Bootcamp cost extra and to extra cost to buy a Windows license. Not good for causal gamer, and I think it is really bad for indie developer.

I don't know the market of game engine and don't know the unit sales, insteand of read the engine ranking from devmaster.net, after doing some research I found the following is interesting:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/3dgamestudio.com?p=tgraph&r=home_home
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stonetrip.com?p=tgraph&r=home_home
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/torquepowered.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/unity3d.com?p=tgraph&r=home_home

It seems multiplatform engine got higher internet traffic.

Another indie developer post the portion of Linux/Mac/Windows sales.

http://www.koonsolo.com/news/linux-users-show-their-love-for-indie-game/