Porting means lot of devs to port all the stuff.
Lot of bugs also.
And it would need indeed programmers, i don't see one man doing all that stuff, even only for OpenGl version.

I think like some people , that an improved version of WED would be first priority.

Well A8 is what it is by now, and like i said is programmer
engine mainly and it fits great on that side.
And it's perfect for small indie projects.

porting does not mean that, for mobile platforms maybe, but for mac/lin porting means JCL ports the engine, we only press a button and change the working platform.

I do not think writing an opengl renderer and porting the engine to win mobile/android/mac would be hard for JCL, only needs time.

I also agree a better WED shold be at higher priority, after all if engine were to be ported, editors need to be ported too so it would mean a WED-from-scratch because WED is heavily based on windows spesific libraries, anyway.

i also think that an opengl port wouldn't be that hard. the shader system of the engine maybe could be a bit of a problem? how would the two different shading languages be handled?

Cg is pretty much HLSL, but works with both DirectX and OpenGL, so if they used Cg we'd be all set

Jibb

Yeah, and small indie projects are great for the mobile phone market.

(But right, this not that in hurry and wed probably should have higher priority.)

If they want to keep their market share, mobile phone market is VERY important imho. At least as important as a new WED.

Yes, it is. The mobile phone market might be larger then the PC market soon. The Android software market as an example is the fastest growing software market today. Many developers jump this ship. EA brought Need for Speed to Android. Popcap is working on Plants vs. Zombies on Android and other publishers and studios are woking on projects.Thousands of small apps enter the market each day. Waiting too long is a very large mistake just because the big guys will rule this market very soon.

Just look at the iPhone market. Epic already released a game and sold 1.5 millions just in the first week. This platform now belongs to the big guys.

And there will be a new SDK for Android for native programming. Many C++ coders are waiting for that and will jump this market also. Up to now it was more of a Java domain.

I don't think that 3DGS should aim for the mobile sector though. They lack manpower in order to get such a millstone round the neck. I mean they already struggle to stay somewhat on par on the PC sector - when trying to also always keep iPhone and Android support around at the same time that would be too much in my opinion...

I was sort of surprised by the impact of that market. I did assume quite some possibilities for the usual minigames but the mobile sector managed to really pull off a trend even towards more serious / complex games...

jcl already announced that they want to head towards mobiles. The question is how fast and good they do it.

Yes, it is really astonishing. Even simple casual games like "Angry Birds" (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Birds) sold 10 million units only on iPhone and are now available for Android, Symbian and Windows and are told to be converted to consoles too. Something like this is a money printing machine.

But this works only in the beginning that way. Later it will be harder. There will be more good titles and only the ones with a good advertising budget will sell that much.