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throwaway27448yesterday at 7:01 PM3 repliesview on HN

Let me know when I can run it on my Mac. I realize I'm 1% of the world but I can't even be bothered to unfuck the gaming machines I own that are gathering dust. Just let me use my main workstation and I'll play the shit out of it


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MarsIronPIyesterday at 8:08 PM

I wish it were open-source, especially since it's being distributed "pay-what-you-want" anyway. If they released the source, they could get free labor to port to Mac or even console homebrew.

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zamadatixyesterday at 7:09 PM

I wonder what they'll do in that regard, has anyone seen an official comment on the intent? I know they already have a Linux build but they didn't have to create a new graphics API target (they use Vulkan) to do that.

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Svokayesterday at 8:26 PM

You are not, in fact, 1% here. I saw numbers like 77% of players using Windows, 12% on macOS and 9% on Linux for the game.

Also, developers seem to have an experimental Linux build and code building for macOS according to the wiki:

https://kittenspaceagency.wiki.gg/wiki/Frequently_asked_ques...?

I have a lot of opinions on shipping games on macOS, but they mostly about lack of technical barriers to be honest, so I'll leave them with myself.