might stop completely development for Mac
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 11:44 am
This year goes like this...
In case you don't know Apple is introducing a madness even worse than gatekeeper, "notarizing apps". You can read around the net, but in practice, the system I use to build games won't work anymore. It will REQUIRE devs to own a mac (I don't own a mac anymore, and I don't plan to ever buy another) and the current system of using a launcher to run apps (itchio/Steam) to avoid the many gatekeeper issues doesn't seem it will work anymore.
So in summary, for my games (and I suspect for a good amount of other indies who don't have time to waste on pointless things) I'll stop developing for Mac in future, unless somehow it's still possible to:
- build Mac apps with 1 mouse click as it is now with Ren'Py
- don't need to own a Mac
but I seriously doubt it will be possible! Considering Macs are 6-7% of my sales, it will be bad (first losing Android income and now even this? ugh). But it's clearly not enough for me to convince going through various hoops for simply building an app!!
It's a clear (idiotic) move from Apple to force people to use their appstore, which will have the exact opposite effect, of having most devs abandon their platform.
In case you don't know Apple is introducing a madness even worse than gatekeeper, "notarizing apps". You can read around the net, but in practice, the system I use to build games won't work anymore. It will REQUIRE devs to own a mac (I don't own a mac anymore, and I don't plan to ever buy another) and the current system of using a launcher to run apps (itchio/Steam) to avoid the many gatekeeper issues doesn't seem it will work anymore.
So in summary, for my games (and I suspect for a good amount of other indies who don't have time to waste on pointless things) I'll stop developing for Mac in future, unless somehow it's still possible to:
- build Mac apps with 1 mouse click as it is now with Ren'Py
- don't need to own a Mac
but I seriously doubt it will be possible! Considering Macs are 6-7% of my sales, it will be bad (first losing Android income and now even this? ugh). But it's clearly not enough for me to convince going through various hoops for simply building an app!!
It's a clear (idiotic) move from Apple to force people to use their appstore, which will have the exact opposite effect, of having most devs abandon their platform.