Is there any plan to develop upcoming gamesas games for alternative systems such as Mac, Linux, other Unix-based OSes? I understand that developing for multiple platforms isn't a simple task, but such things like D2X-XL make me happy to see that classic Descent games are playable on *nix. Nothing against the Windows platform, but it would be nice...

I'd like to give you some good news, but honestly, from what I understand, we're planning on supporting Windows, the current generation consoles and, possibly, Macs.

Things can always change, but I'd put Linux support as highly unlikely.

pax,
-Chris

That's kinda funny as Mac is unix based.

But, I'm not surprised. Although, I think if MS doens't get their act together with the "new" ,,,and I use the term loosly... OS, there is likely to be a large exodus to Linux by many.

Not that, that's a threat to MS in any real financial way in the short term. They're too well dug in from a marketing stand point.

But thanks all the same Chris!

Theres always WINE or QEMU or something I suppose.
|Lockon!|

If you are successful enough in sales, you should at least see if you can improve game compatibility with wine. Also, I don't really know this, but if Mac is supported, wouldn't it be just a small step to Linux?

Not such a small step, but yes, a step of sorts. I'm not sure about the specifics being only a novice *nix hacker, and I'm not even sure if OS X is 100% POSIX compliant, but the step from Windows to Mac is larger than the step from Mac to Linux.

It would be a nice thing to see gamesas testing their code on WINE though, that would surely increase revenue. (At least the computer-savvy niche of the revenue pie)

Mostly it would require being POSIX and use appropriate libraries (i.e. FMOD for sound, etc)
|Lockon!|