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baloofarsan on 06 June 2014
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Ail said:
baloofarsan said:

When looking at Kickstarter game-projects the base goal often says the game will be made for all three PC, Mac and Linux.

As I do not know enough about programming I would like someone who knows to explain: is it nowdays whitout problem to make a game and whitout much work get a PC-port, a Mac-port and a Linux-port?

If so why is it that Steam that tries to promote Linux  for its Steam Machine seems to struggle getting all games in a Linux-port?


No it isn't without problems at all. There is a significant extra costs in supporting all 3 platforms, especially on the graphics side....

Some years ago there used to be a big divide between PC, Mac and Linux but I gather this divide is significantly smaller now. To port to consoles the only problem/cost is the dev kit? As MS Sony and Nintendo all are trying to reduce this cost will it be even easier to port a Unity game in the future. MS claims the retail XboxOne will soon be able to use as a dev kit!