What's the likelyhood of 'The Void' being ported to Mac? I've kept my eye on this game for some time but don't have a competent gaming PC and can't justify purchasing one for only this game (and possibly Pathologic). I've tried to find an email address in which I can ask the developers directly but I wasn't able to find one. Given that Steam was just released for the Mac platform, I thought the possibility of The Void coming to Mac would be more probable.

Even if it isn't really too possible, I'd like to mention that you'd have at least one purchase!

Hey there!

Steam is only a program that helps get games, it has nothing to do with the game itself. Thus, unfortunatelly, we'll need to do a tonn of work (months!) to port it to Mac OS.

There are alternatives withour involving re-writing code:

As far as I remember, there's a Windows emulator for the later Macs that can run DirectX games. Maybe you could try that? Also, you can install two operating systems on the same Mac, one of which can be Windows 7, the other - Mac OS.

It's Wine, and The Void runs quite well on it: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... ngId=49920

But most Direct3D games run generally at less than half the speed they run on Windows.
Do you consider using OpenGL for your next games The LxR? OpenGL games work at full speed on Linux and Mac OS, using wine. You could even ship Linux and MacOS binaries for near-zero effort using libwine, like Google did for Picasa and GoogleEarth (and Linux needs games! )

This message is much delayed but thank you for the answer. I buckled and installed bootcamp on my Mac recently. Currently in love with the game and if there is ever a possibility to port it - I'd buy it again!