The journey to Nintendo Switch

I was so excited when I saw the Allegro library in the 90s! I lost track of it later and believed it was dead (I believe the author went to Microsoft to work on DirectX). But lo and behold, I've just checked what libraries the Factorio guys used - and what a pleasant surprise!

Re: The journey to Nintendo Switch

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Post by kergonath » Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 12:54 PM UTC

mcphage wrote: post #2

This came as a total surprise... I'm impressed they managed to get the game running well on the Switch! Will I actually buy it again, just to have it on the Switch? ...yes. Yes, I will.

I would absolutely love an iPad version. Much more than the Switch version (which I am going to get anyway).

Re: The journey to Nintendo Switch

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Post by glandium » Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 12:56 PM UTC

The Nintendo Switch has an ARM64 CPU, which means the biggest part of porting to that CPU is now done. Does it mean we can expect an Apple Silicon mac build some time soon(ish)?

Re: The journey to Nintendo Switch

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Post by j_m_b » Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 1:15 PM UTC

Will the controller designs end up in the pc version? Would love to play this on my Steam Deck in console mode!

Re: The journey to Nintendo Switch

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Post by Sakos » Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 1:20 PM UTC

kergonath wrote: post #5

mcphage wrote: post #2

This came as a total surprise... I'm impressed they managed to get the game running well on the Switch! Will I actually buy it again, just to have it on the Switch? ...yes. Yes, I will.

I would absolutely love an iPad version. Much more than the Switch version (which I am going to get anyway).

It would certainly blow the Switch version out of the water performance-wise.

Re: The journey to Nintendo Switch

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Post by mdmglr » Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 1:23 PM UTC

I’m not a game developer. What I would like to know is how does porting the code that draws the UIs and perhaps the game work? For example on PC one might use WinForms and DirectX so is this just a matter of writing wrappers to all your DirectX calls to the Switch equivalents?

Re: The journey to Nintendo Switch

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Post by exebook » Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 1:23 PM UTC

Am I the only one who after seeing the title thought they are building Nintendo switch inside Factorio? Which makes me think can it at least run something like Atari 2600 at decent speed?