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How hard is it to make a game you made for windows mac compatible?

Take Minecraft for example. If that game was only made for windows, how hard would it be for Notch to make it mac compatible?

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    9 years ago
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    Depends on the development environment they used to make the game. Minecraft is written using Java, so should be inherently cross-platform with very little effort.

    The mobile version of Minecraft for iOS isn't written in Java however, as iOS doesn't support Java. That's a special case. But the fact they've got both a Java and C++ port means it should be fairly easy to port. They just need to make the effort to package it up.

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  • 5 years ago

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