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Re: Halo tools to be windows only?
Posted By: Peter	Date: 9/14/00 5:21 a.m.
In Response To: Halo tools to be windows only? (PsychoBean) > A heck of a lot of mac games out there don't have the editors > available for them that their windows counterparts do have. > Bungie has been the exception to this, releasing the tools for > myth II for both platforms. I don't want to turn this into any > sort of platform war, but I do want to say that I was > expecting... no, at least hoping to have the halo tools follow > that tradition. As far as tradition as goes, I don't see any. Once Oni is punted over to Take 2, Bungie won't make Mac games--they'll allow them to be ported. Don't take that MacWorld Expo, "unwavering commitment" stuff too seriously, that was just Jobs showing his ability to extend his Reality Distortion Field to others on stage. There's no such thing as a first-party platform-agnostic console game developer. There's nothing wrong with a competent and near-simultaneous port, and I look forward to, Bung--uh, that Peter Tamte company--showing off Halo at some future MacWorld, but even the best ports can have their baggage--delays on patches, lack of editors and other extras, cxross-platform play, and the like. So I doubt that an editor would be ported to the Mac. The market for Halo is one thing, the market for editing Halo is probably tiny--and doing it on the Mac even tinier.

Message Index

Halo tools to be windows only?	PsychoBean	9/12/00 7:40 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Mark Levin	9/12/00 8:47 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	nexZ	9/12/00 9:57 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	PsychoBean	9/12/00 11:06 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Mark Levin	9/12/00 11:12 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	PsychoBean	9/12/00 11:26 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Maestro	9/12/00 9:05 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Loren Petrich	9/13/00 4:07 a.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	JoeyJoJo	9/13/00 7:14 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Peter	9/14/00 5:21 a.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	magdala	9/14/00 9:22 a.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Smokey	9/14/00 10:51 a.m.
commitment no, market yes	CyberBob =PN=	9/14/00 10:40 a.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Matt	9/14/00 3:34 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Louis Wu	9/14/00 3:46 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	mattd	9/14/00 4:02 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Joe England	9/15/00 8:36 p.m.
Re: Halo tools to be windows only?	Dan Rudolph	9/15/00 9:10 p.m.