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Many game developers use Windows as their primary development environment. However, developing and building games for Apple's platform may require access to macOS and Xcode.
For developers who don't own a Mac, would using a remote Mac mini be a practical way to handle iOS game development tasks?
What are the main benefits and challenges of this approach?
I am very new to SDL3 GPU.
I am following this tutorial and even though their code works my code fails when trying to claim the window for the GPU device.
Error:
[FATAL] --- [2026-11-02 12:30:25] [m...
Development games for multiple platforms can involve different development environments. For example, a developer may use Windows for most of the game development process but still need macOS when preparing a game for release on iOS.
I am interested in understanding which parts of the iOS game development workflow specifically require macOS and Xcode.
Some devel...
I am very new to SDL3 GPU.
I am following a tutorial and even though their code works my code fails when trying to claim the window for the gpu device.
Error:
[FATAL] --- [2026-11-02 12:30:25] [main.odin:19:main()] Failed To Claim Window For GPU Device: This surface does not support presenting!My Code:
package main import "core:log" import sdl "ven...I have seen different "basic" game loops both from books like "Introduction to 3D game programming with DX11" or online tutorial ( Rastertek ) and if we take off all the fancy stuff to control framerate and more they all look roughly like this :
while (msg != WM_QUIT) // { if (PeekMessage(&msg,0,0,0,PM_REMOVE) { // Translate and dispatch message } else { // D...