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Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

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399 points TaurenHunter | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 01:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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goldenshale ◴[20 Nov 24 05:45 UTC] No.42191115[source]▶
I was just looking at this thinking it would be fun to play with my wife, and then realized its windows only. When does the mac version come out?!
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tbillington ◴[20 Nov 24 06:03 UTC] No.42191187[source]▶
The devs mentioned they're not currently looking into it. The game uses Vulkan which isn't supported by MacOS, so they'd have to write a whole second renderer just for Mac.

It is also available on linux.

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wffurr ◴[20 Nov 24 06:22 UTC] No.42191261[source]▶
MoltenVK should make it possible to port to Mac.

Curious that it uses Vulkan and not wgpu.

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1. ferbivore ◴[20 Nov 24 08:21 UTC] No.42191789{3}[source]▶
The renderer is too complex to run on MoltenVK correctly. See https://steamcommunity.com/app/2198150/discussions/0/4425436...
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2. wffurr ◴[21 Nov 24 15:44 UTC] No.42205469[source]▶
Bummer to read that MoltenVK is too buggy to use. ISTR that neither wgpu nor Dawn use it though in favor of their own WebGPU -> Metal backends, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.

Vulkan is a powerful API but it’s not universally cross platform like OpenGL.