Frequently Asked Forum Questions
Search the HBO News Archives Any All Exact		Search the Halo Updates DBs Halo Halo2		Bungie Webcam HBO XBL Gamertags *Ar's Simple HTML Guide Shishka's Guide for Newcomers The Lowdown on Download Accelerators Red Loser's Anti-Spamming Guide Egg FAQ | More Egg Stuff c0ld's Movie Starter Guide Shishka's HaloPC Pre-Release FAQ 3.1 AutoMagic 117 StripzMaker
Search Older Posts on This Forum: Posts on Current Forum | Archived Posts

Re: Halo tools to be windows only?
Posted By: magdala <anglo321@yahoo.co.uk>	Date: 9/14/00 9:22 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Halo tools to be windows only? (Peter) Hmm...Bungie seem to have developed themselves around allowing 3rd party development, looking at the Marathon series and indeed the Myth series shows that. These games are still being developed for and played regularly by many people. I think this 'community' was part of what MS was really after in the purchase of Bungie, after all, its the people who play the game that 'make' the game work and create a game culture. It would seem strange to go this far down the road developing for a mac platform and not consider the editiors (looking at previous game releases). I'm crossing my fingers and can see where you are coming from but Bungie know 'alot' of people or development groups who have been waiting for these editiors, more so than perhaps the game itself! I think after Halo we will see the page turn and perhaps a down turn in the development for macs, I hope they'll still be ported but we'll have to wait and see. > 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.