Kards for MAC??

[deep lagoon]

Hey goodnight. I'm a Kards player and because of my job unfortunately I had to migrate to the mac (not that it's all bad), and I would like to know if there is any interest in your team to have this game for MAC IOS since you are even going to Mobile.

[west knoll]

Mac, it's quite difficult for devs to get through mac, since there are quite certain restrictions unique to apple and also, if I remember correctly, they charge quite much in terms of bringing the game in.

On the other hand, they are bringing Kards mobile on both iphone & android in the coming future, so there's that.

[ashen sable]

Iirc they promised Mac compatibility a while back so it is definitely on the radar and it's been brought up many times in the past. Probably one of the highest requested platforms imo, right behind mobile

[woeful coral]

for now probably the best thing you can do is run a VM

or alternatively if you need macOS for some software make a hackintosh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh)

[tulip bough]

I used to play Kards on Mac by using Parallel but after the game updated to UE5 it doesn't run properly any more, sadly.

[steady jewel]

I've played before on a MacBook Pro using BootCamp. Doesn't work on M1 chip of course. Would love to see proper support for Mac, it has also been announced before

[stark bloom]

I also would love to see a MacOS version but my hopes are low as the devs always have something more important to do since it was first announced. It has been pushed back since I started playing in 2020.

[plucky river]

what's an M1 chip 👀?

also can't you just play to kards by emulating a wii

ho wait nvm it's not linux

[steady jewel]

New architecture made by ARM for Macs from 2020 and later, previously they used Intel 64-bit x86-64. Applications that work on one architecture do not necessarily work on others.

[plucky river]

imagine using a mac

man it seems to give so many headache in term of gaming

[steady jewel]

Backwards compatibility, which is great for gaming, is not much of a concern for Apple.

[blissful knot]

I'd love a macOS version. Devs, if you're reading - look into Catalyst. It's an apple-designed method for bringing iPadOS apps to macOS. If you're building for iOS, it's pretty similar to developing for iPadOS and I'd guess you've been considering this.

[wheat lion]

But Kards port to Wii when?

[lone token]

Insight from dev here : It is possible, but currently I believe there is a worry that the risk/reward ratio is not very high. The risk = additional build and deployment pipeline establishment and maintenance. The reward = the relatively low amount of Mac players.

Wii coming soon!

The initial deployment to Mac in itself is not a huge outlay, but the commitment to maintain and support the platform and any issues on it is big.

[rancid heath]

Sorry for replying in this suggestion thread but my question is fitting to the topic of playing Kards on Mac

I used to play Kards inside of a windows 11 arm virtual machine using parallels on a m1 mac.

But since the Patch to UE5 there is a problem. I can still launch the game but the rendering pipeline is broken. I was wondering if there is any low effort possibility of fixing kards on windows 11 arm so mac people at least have a chance to play and spend some $$$ on kards?

[wheat lion]

this is art!

[lone token]

it's up to unreal to fix their renderers in these cases I'm afraid : we don't have resources available to address it. Squeaky wheels sometimes do get grease, consider posting in the unreal forums with a brief summary of the problem. Would be great if the problem is reproducible on other unreal 5 games on parallels, make it clear that it is the engine at fault

[steady jewel]

I am only aware of 2 commercial Unreal Engine 5 games right now, Kards and Fortnite. Fortnite doesn't work at all because of anti-cheat that doesn't work in virtual machines, so I don't think there are any other games than Kards having this problem right now.

There will be more in the future though.