Joust emulator mac update#

Joust emulator mac update#

IвЂ™ve been using MonoGame 3.2 up to this point but this was as good a time as any to update to 3.5. So I started with a brand new Windows 8.1 VM and a fresh installation of Visual Studio 2015. IвЂ™ve done this before for вЂAttack Of Giant Jumping ManвЂ™ though so was optimistic that it should be a workable solution, plus IвЂ™d have to do the PC port anyway at some point вЂ“ may as well get on with it. That left Xamarin.Mac as the only вЂnativeвЂ™ Mac option but thereвЂ™s a hefty additional licence charge for that (or at least there used to be вЂ“ I couldnвЂ™t quite work out whatвЂ™s going on with Xamarin.Mac since the Microsoft buyout).ДЄs a result of this tragic state of affairs (remember when Apple used to take x-platform development seriously in the initial OSX days?) I decided the only option would be to ditch Mac native and move to running Windows under VMWare Fusion (at least for any development that requires serious gameplay testing). The iOS simulators are hopeless for graphics performance (and donвЂ™t respond to keyboard control as far as IвЂ™m aware), GoogleвЂ™s stock Android emulators take an age to launch/install builds and the Xamarin Android Player, though fast, is still pretty flaky. That means I need another platform for testing. The problem is intermittent but bad enough to make serious gameplay testing on the platform impossible вЂ“ no response from their support either. Unfortunately I discovered a problem with GenyMotion in that it seems to just вЂmissвЂ™ some keyup/keydown events. This probably seems strange given that my main target platform is PC, but GenyMotion generally runs extremely well and I donвЂ™t want to have to buy another machine just for development purposes.

This week I was supposed to have started on the initial gameplay testing for Jetboard Joust but I came up against a rather nasty snag.I develop using Xamarin Studio on a Mac and had been using the GenyMotion Android emulator for my main testing platform.