Hey everyone,

I'd love to share the latest gameplay for the game I'm currently building in GDevelop.

It's a pixel-art management sim where you design and operate your own haunted house dark ride. I've actually never created a game before, and am truly happy with how inituitive it is to use GDevelop and create a game that's entirely what I envisioned.

I'm currently working very hard to get a demo ready for Halloween season. If you like, you can find more info and screenshots on the Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4480080/Scream_Operator_Haunted_House_Manager/

I've had lovely conversations with fellow GDevelopers in the past regarding the lightning and mechanics of this game, and I've had more than a fair share of help too. If there's anything you'd like to discuss, or any feedback, please feel free to hit me up here, or on discord!

In case you aren't aware. There have been a few CoD games that have shipped with debug symbols (.pdb files). They pretty much lay out all function names and files, which is intended to be used with debugging. One of these was Call of Duty 4.

Some people who are smarter than me took it upon themselves to reverse-engineer the multiplayer client + dedicated server of CoD4 called KisakCOD (You can find it here: https://github.com/SwagSoftware/KisakCOD )

I thought I'd try and port it to arm64 macOS (I always enjoyed cod4, I remember playing on a ton of modded servers). This has been worked on for the past month (so it's a bit outdated compared to the repo). The fast file load system had to be reworked since literally all of it used 32-bit pointers that I had to rewrite to use 64-bit. I'm using SDL3 for window and input, and I've rerouted most of the texture and sound calls through these. As such, most of the menu is functioning.

Technically can get "in-game", but nothing renders since I haven't gotten to that yet (I've been slacking a lot). There's also a ton of issues with the font (strings keep getting shifted so there's some bugs, and the Metal renderer is incomplete so some of the screens are also wonky)

Dedicated servers work fully and can load maps and initialize game scripts. At some point I do intend to help out with the developers of the repo, but I can't pull request any of this as its messy and I've had to gut and rewrite a ton of stuff (all windows stuff have been removed, this is only compilable for macOS, and theoretically linux)

I'll keep updating as I go but progress is really slow.

I probably should have waited before ordering but Steam product page clearly said it works as long as you have Steam, including on Mac.

I came across a couple of posts detailing the same problem. The controller is detected by Steam running natively on Mac and the buttons seem to work on Steam UI. But it doesn't work in-game!

I have checked everything I could find so far. Input monitoring is enabled, accessibility toggle is enabled, Steam is updated, controller/puck is updated.

I managed to purchase one on the second day after launch and was so excited to finally get it after 12 days of wait. It looks like a great controller but right now it's just sitting on my desk as a paper weight.

hiii!! i was utterly confused as well!! those having issues with their steam controllers, though, refer to title. everything works as expected on my m4 mac mini and macOS Sequoia. on screen keyboard, Steam Input, mouse input with trackpads, and controller detection in emulators all function without issue.

Hey guys, I’m playing Red Dead Redemption 2 on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro 16” using CrossOver + Steam, and honestly it runs surprisingly well.

Now I really want to try the WhyEm DLC mod, but I couldn’t find any recent tutorials or gameplay videos for Apple Silicon Macs.

Could someone make a YouTube video showing:

• how to install WhyEm DLC on Mac with CrossOver
• whether it works with Steam version
• performance/stability on M-series Macs

I think a lot of Mac gamers would appreciate it. Thanks!

After 5 years of game development on Windows, I switched to a MacBook Pro M4 Pro a year ago to see if it would make my dev life better. And it absolutely did.

The experience has been awesome. Builds are very fast, the laptop stays dead silent (and cool), and I can actually work unplugged for hours. I genuinely enjoy working on this little beast every day, it's such a pleasant experience compared to Windows laptops I used for years. I just wish Steam’s SDK and deployment tools had smoother macOS support out of the box, but perhaps my game will be one push more in the right direction and one day Steam will treat Mac and PC users equally.

Apple silicon Macs are so dang powerful, I wish more games got native versions. Cyberpunk 2077 shows perfectly what's possible when someone actually gives a native port some love. I have a feeling Apple will focus on games even more in coming years and perhaps release a gaming-focused portable handheld.

What's your experience using native Steam client on Mac? Do you even use it (or other launchers like GOG/Epic Games Launcher)?

mer·cu·ry

Mercury is an Apple-native game engine focused on Metal, Swift, and Apple Silicon without cross-platform rendering abstractions.

SwiftUI for the editor shell for native UI workflow, while the editor components and runtime systems are rendered directly with Metal.

A modular WorkspaceToolbar and Sidebar system designed around flexible editor workflows.

USD models (.usd)

ASTC textures (.astc) are used for GPU-optimized texture storage.

CAF audio containers (.caf) are used for low-level, system-friendly audio streaming and processing.

M4A audio (.m4a) is used for compressed, distribution-ready audio assets.

JSON is used for runtime-oriented data

XML is used for hierarchical or tool-driven data

All authored data stays tool-agnostic and engine-independent.

Video Timestamps

00:00 - AnimationSystem
00:30 - MaterialSystem
00:55 - WorkspaceToolbar
01:00 - Sidebar
01:05 - Visual Scripting
01:21 - Asset Library
01:36 - Material Library
01:54 - Split View
02:49 - Terrain Builder
03:58 - RuntimeWindow
04:24 - In-Game

Editor is for macOS and iPadOS

Engine confirmed working on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS from a single codebase.

I have been working on this monster taming game since high school and I thought I would share it with you. As I grew up in a town where cockfights are common (called "Sabong"), I added my father's own fighter named "Labuyo". Both my father and Labuyo are now gone, but I can still be with them in the game. Labuyo is not that strong though, and he gets beaten by Tarhyak all the time. It would mean a lot to me if you could wishlist the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4190860/Neuralnx/