It seems as if Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve is looking for a few good men to engineer things for Linux and Macintosh. Several sleuth sites, as well as more than a share of Mac-focused sites, have been reporting on a rogue sentence not-so-tucked-away in Valve's Chris Green's LinkedIn profile, indicating that the studio is indeed doing as much.
"I work at Valve," it reads. "You should work at Valve." A hard enter. "REALLY looking for senior Linux (plus) Mac engineers."
Left 4 Dead 2 on the Macintosh? It could happen -- in a world where unicorns exist and cement tastes like Red Bull, that is. A boy can dream, right?
Valve Looking For Mac And Linux Engineers [Inside Mac Gaming] [image cred]
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3:00 AM on 01.28.2010
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Steam for Mac and Linux.
...but then Valve games need Steam to run, so I'm confuzzled.
Adding wine to the equation also makes sense (google does it).
Also, as much as I would like to run Steam on Linux with no problems, the lack of a unified Linux type (Debian, RPM, etc.) kinda makes it too much work for something that will only help a few folks.
Get Left 4 Dead on PS3, and then make a FPS for the Wii that uses the Wii Remote controls in a way that aren't detrimental to the enjoyment of the game (i.e. Red Steel). That'll get you cash. Cash is good.
although I have to say, even being a mac user, the PS3 is a better market, with more potential customers than either of those platforms, they should do that before they worry about mac/linux games, if your a mac user you long gave up trying to play games and got a console.
But hell, if they make it, I will cu... use it.
Sure, the market is bigger than Mac and Linux's, but:
- guess to whom you have to pay royalties, whose rules you need to follow, whose approval process you need to submit games and patches to, with whom you need to share revenues when you release a game on Mac or Linux? Nobody.
- PS3 has its own complex, peculiar, probably brilliant in theory, architecture, which despite its brilliance could be completely abandoned by Sony in as little as a couple of years. It's a risky investment to build expertise for it. Quite the opposite is true for Mac and Linux environments, of course.
I had a dream relating to Valve, too! I had dreamed that Valve actually released Half-Life 2: Episode 3! It was nuts!!
i also have a dream relating to half life.
i dreamed that black mesa would be released before 2010.
but sometime a dream your dreams to. strange.
It does seem odd that they've never made the Valve engine run on Mac.
the first sentence is going with the theme of "dreaming" or wishing for things to happen. in Anastu case, wishing that valve would release episode 3. in my case, wishing black mesa would have been released before 2010.
now black mesa is a 3rd party remake of half life (which was supposed to be released before 2010, hint the wishing) using all the source engine, due to HL fans being disappointed by HL source
or you know all this and be referring to the mistake i made by typing in an "a" instead of an "i" and not putting an "'s" at the end of "sometime"
Also, TF2.
Also, well...all of Steam. I'm missing out on a lot of good Valve games right now. :[
Nothing in that posting specifically points to making 'games'.
A large portion of the dedicated servers that make up the lifeblood of valve games run on Linux servers. So its easy to imagine any number of scenarios where they might want to increase support.
I imagine that if PS3s were the most cost effective way to host dedicated servers for PC games then Valve would want to keep their team supporting PS3 servers well staffed too.
and mac can run steam, but it needs an emulator like parallels to emulate direct X and all that good windows stuff.
I would say that the Mac market is bigger, because the only people distributing games are third party third party disturbers and some EA crap, while the PS3 has plenty of competition.
there are people that want to play games on Mac its just they take forever to come out and generally cost more than on PC and don't play as good, This could be a great move on Valve's side.
This is awesome news to me cause right now I am boot-camping my imac to run windows and most of my games are on steam so I can finally just delete my partition and only have one OS.
Games is one of the only reasons I still use Windows, so this could mean good news
Macs are great and all, and my plan going forward is PC towers for gaming and Macs for laptop portability. The issue is the hardware, unless it's a pricey Mac Pro tower, can't be upgraded in the same way a PC can. I wanted to get get Mass Effect 2 for the PC since I enjoyed the PC version of Mass Effect so much more than the 360 version. Problem was my video card was only a GeForce 8600M, and they recommended an 8800 minimum. Not like I couldn't play the game, but ME2 is a visual experience as much as it is an adventure game, so I didn't want to sacrifice on the visuals.
So yeah, it'll be nifty, but I'll likely stick with buying my games for PC on my new tower. I may take some of them over to the Win7 partition on my Mac, but not all that often.
Motherfuckers.
(PS: I have yet to try Crossover)
True that most macs arn't nearly as upgradeable (well they are but there expensive because you need special mac version of the graphics cards and the processors are buried in the oddest places, but I've red articles about doing it) but as ong as you don't cheap it out every time you upgrade, you'l be able to last as long as you upgrade machines (mac users either upgrade within 3 years or wait a looooooong time, seriously I am running a computer from 07 and feel the need to upgrade, I have a family member who were stil using their laptop from 99 till last November, and AOL till last month) Plus if the rumors are true (and I iPad ones were, despite how ridiculous and retarded the final product was) apple should be coming out with a desktop computer somewhere between the MacMini and the MacPro (with some overlap to each) that is a smaller box not an all in one, mabey if something like this happens it'll push them to finally release it.
and @everyone who said servers
you do servers in linux or mac, theres no point in mixing the system you server is running unless you like to give yourself trouble, and I have only ever seen 1 mac server ever, so I don't think thats what they have in mind.
Occasionally i switch to Mac to listen to music, cause all of it is on that side, but i havent really used it much at all.
When i first switched to Mac it frustrated me so much because it lacked so many of the games and apps i was used to.
naw.
if they really want ps3 engineer help, sony would send someone down to help them. but i can also imagine portal on the wii would be amazing.
I believe that linux on the PS3 limits your access to the system's GPU, so it probably wouldn't have the power to run LFD2. Sony did that for protection against what you're actually talking about! It's great for emulation and basic computing though!
... ok ... geek rage aside.
Yes, please, get us some steam. I'll love you forever. I still love Steam forever unconditionally from back when I played CS, DoD, and NS when I still had a Windows box. I think I'll send them chocolates if they release a Linux steam client.
All it takes is to recompile the source for Debian or RPM. There have been numerous Linux games that have worked fine for the majority of Linux distros.
That would be totally separate from getting some kind of self contained client going on Mac OS. Casual games are a huge hit on the iPhone, why not let some Steam Lite Mac client (Vapor?) serve Mac OSX all the PopCap catalog, rope in Big Fish and some other big casual names. I doubt Apple would allow that on iPhone or iPad since you have to use their store, but I guess it's possible if Valve cut them in a little on each game bought through Mac Steam directly.