Hi Everyone,
I'm a game developer with 25 years of work behind me and my ultimate long term goal is to ensure that as much of my games get to live as long as possible. In today's world, if you don't update games or port to new platforms, they get left behind and forgotten within 5-10 years...
I'm mostly successful in this, and our games are present pretty much everywhere on today's hardware, but, a long wish of mine was to also go "back in time" and see if we can port our games to older systems such as Win9x, classic macs and PowerPC's.
In fact, back in the day, some of our games did work on PowerPC OSX 10.4-10.6, so I know it's technically possible to do so. Ultimately, I'd love to see our games work on my iMac G3
However, doing so means a lot of time and work on our side and I can't justify it to our other team members if there wouldn't be enough intereset from players.
So my idea was this, publish our games for MacOS X (PPC and i386) and if possible, MacOS9 - as full versions, free of charge, and simply ask people on the main menu to buy the game on any other platform they choose if the like the game (Mac App Store, Steam, Nintendo etc). No verification and no judgement if you don't, it's kinda like donationware.
So, my question is, if you were able to play one of our games on an old Mac, would you even be interested in playing them, and if so, would you we willing to buy the game on another platform to show appreciation and support porting further games?
- My company is called Cateia Games
- The first game I'd like to port is a point and click adventure game called Kaptain Brawe
- You can find the rest of our games on Steam