![]() ![]() The introduction of these titles on the Mac isn't the stopping point, in typical Steam fashion you can get these titles at a sweet discounted price. Steam's advanced multiplayer support on both the PC and Mac has enabled us to bring Killing Floor to a whole new audience on the Mac and introduce them to the existing PC player community." "We were thrilled when we learned that Steam was coming to the Mac platform and started working on a native Mac version of Killing Floor immediately. ![]() ![]() John Gibson, the president of Tripwire Interactive and the company that developed Killing Floor is excited about Steam's entry into the Mac world: You know what that means? Mac VS PC! You can log on and own your friends, no matter what computer platform they are running Steam on. The first three titles for the cross-platform endeavor are Killing Floor, Altitude and Madballs in Babo: Invasion. As promised, every Wednesday they will make more games available for Mac and this week they introduced a few cross-platform multiplayer titles. Thanks a lot for your email, Erik! This is really what drives us here at Exit Games.Last week, Steam for Mac hit the ground running with a trunk-load of titles and deals. So thanks for creating such a great tool.” All of this leads to a better experience for players, and I’m not sure this game would even be possible without Photon. Most importantly, as a one-person development team I can spend much more of my time improving the game and adding features instead of worrying about esoteric networking issues. I can build the game to be jump-in, jump-out and not worry about disruptions caused by the host leaving. It’s cross-platform, so Mac and Linux players get the benefit of the larger PC community. It’s extremely easy for players to join or create new rooms, so even with a relatively small playerbase there are plenty of online matches going on at once. Photon has been a huge part of making that achievement possible. This actually ranks it as the #1 best-rated multiplayer game on Steam, ahead of classics like Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Quake. It just launched officially on Steam with a 99% positive user rating (among 720 total ratings). It is a multiplayer dodgeball FPS that uses Photon Unity Networking. “My name’s Erik Asmussen, and I’m a solo developer building a game called Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball. ![]()
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