Valve offers Mac graphics code to other devs
In a bid to harvest more top-tier games for the Mac version of Steam, Half-Life creator Valve plans to offer its Mac graphics code to third-party game developers.
In a revealing interview with game dev site Gamesindustry.biz today, Valve's director of business development, Jason Holtman, revealed that his pals at Valve are "going to release some of our graphics code for the GL layer."
"The real hard work in making a Mac version is doing that graphics work," says Holtman, "so we're going to help people along by giving them some of our code." The code will be released via Valve's Steamworks gaming tool set, meaning it will be accessible to any Steamworks partners, including big players such as Epic.
