However GM4Mac hasn’t been received as well as many may have expected. Apple also has a distribution system making the process a whole lot more enticing. Mac users take up a significantly bigger market share than Linux does, and there is arguably more opportunity for exposure when creating games for OSX. YoYo may feel that this approach equals more cash. So why exactly are YoYo trying to cover more platforms when they haven’t refined their last endeavor? GM4Mac has grown to be a little better over time, but it still needs work, and fast. And then out of nowhere a good year or more after the announcement, out plopped a half backed, outdated port for Mac that left few impressed.
It had Macintosh users purched on the edges of their seats, regularly looking for news of the release. If we all sit back and take a moment to recall Game Maker history, there was a time when a port to Mac was the “big plan of the future”. And lets not disregard the ol’ faithful Standard edition. Aside from Studio, YoYo are already having to deal with PC spin-offs of GM, such as the HTML5 edition.
And I don’t believe I am alone in this point of view. I for one saw nothing but another opportunity for Game Maker Studio to be delayed when I saw this announcement. Yet the excitement YoYo may have wanted to build, using the screenshot of the program running on a Fedora distribution, may not be manifesting itself as strongly as they had hoped. During early December we saw a surprising image of what appeared to be a port of Game Maker to Linux.
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