So, I have a Mac OS X that’s 10.6.8, and I really want this game. But when I download the demo I can’t play it because my Mac is too old? Is there a way you guys could make it available for my Mac, or do I HAVE to upgrade? 
How come you can’t upgrade to the next OS? Its only $10-20 im sure?
I guess I could try actually.
What one do you have now?
1.6.8. Can’t be bothered to upgrade.
Don’t use mac 
I am playing this game on an older laptop with Win Xp, without any problems.
Of course it runs better on my Win 7 desktop.
It is a MAC/Win game after all Jay…
I know, i just don’t like mac products 
Agreed 100%!!!
Hi Guys,
Game Dev Tycoon relies on a technology called Node-Webkit. The developers of NW will only support Mac OS X 10.7+. There are instructions available on the web for recompiling NW for a 10.6 environment, but it reportedly takes a lot of work, and can produce unpredictable results.
It is for this reason that GDT is restricted to OS X 10.7+ on Macs. Sorry about that.
You really should upgrade, but wait for OS X Mavericks, coming this fall, so you don’t spend money needlessly.
Whats new about it? 
I do have Bootcamp on my Mac so I’ll just run it on that. -w-
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Because you probably have OS X 10.6, you will get all these when you upgrade:
OS X 10.7, Lion, features from Wikipedia:
Address Book uses an iPad-like user interface. It also includes improved Yahoo support and FaceTime calling.
AirDrop – Lion-to-Lion direct file sharing via Wi-Fi Direct. No wireless access point required.
Address space layout randomization – Better encryption
Apple Push Notification Service – Send over-the-air alerts, such as news updates or social networking status changes, using Apple’s Push Notification service to applications that support APNS. APNS allows Mac OS X Lion and iOS clients to receive push changes to items such as mail, calendar and contacts from a configured OS X Lion Server.
Auto-correction behaves much like on iOS devices.
Auto Save – As in iOS, documents in applications written to use Auto Save are saved automatically.
Emoji support
FaceTime
FileVault offers full disk encryption and added security.
Finder improvements – Finder search allows multiple search criteria to be specified without creating a smart folder, Finder search offers suggestions, files can be grouped by various attributes, and one can merge files under two folders with the same name – a prompt appears asking to replace or keep both files.
Font Book 3—Font Book 3 provides more flexible displays of character glyphs supplied by a particular font face. Duplicate font files are flagged with a warning icon, and can be fixed automatically.
Full-screen apps – Native, system-wide support for full-screen applications running in their own space. Supporting applications display a new button at the top right of application window, this button opens applications in full-screen mode.
iCal has an updated user interface, an annual view, and support for a full-screen view.
iChat has support for logging into Yahoo! Messenger. Users can audio- and video-chat with other iChat users using their Yahoo! accounts.
Languages/Localization – Arabic, Czech, Turkish and Hungarian are added as full system languages, to make the total number of twenty-two languages available in Mac OS X,
Launchpad – An application launcher that displays an iOS-like icon grid of installed applications. It features the ability to make multiple pages and group apps into folders that function the same as folders in iOS.
Mac App Store – An application store built in the image of the iOS App Store. Like in iOS, it provides ways for shoppers to discover apps, one-click installation of apps, and one-click updates of all or selected installed applications.
Mail 5 – Uses an iPad-like user interface, has a fullscreen-optimized view, uses chronological “Conversations” to organize messages, and supports Exchange 2010.
Mission Control replaces the “All windows” Exposé feature. It gives an overview of all running applications just like “All windows” but groups windows from the same application.
Multi-touch gestures – Similar to iOS, additional gestures performed using a multi-touch input device (e.g. Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad) allow the user to scroll, swipe to different pages, and enter Mission Control.
Multi-User Screen Sharing—The built-in Screen Sharing feature allows remote users to log into a separate user account from the one that is currently logged in. That means that while one user is logged into a machine, a second user can log into the same machine remotely, seeing their own desktop and user environment.
Preview gains several features, including full-screen support and the ability to sign a document just by holding a signed piece of paper up to the camera.
Profile Manager provides several features, including push notification-based management of OS X Lion and above.
QuickTime re-incorporates some features from QuickTime Pro. New features cited include Copy/Paste, Insert Clip, Crop Video, Rotate Video, Resize, Trim, and more Export options.
Recovery Partition – Apple has introduced a recovery partition that includes utilities generally found on the OS X discs. This partition permits the user to restore their computer to its original factory state. It also allows for a new copy of OS X Lion to be installed over the internet.
Resume – Applications resume in the same state when re-opened as already seen in iOS.
Safari – With full-screen mode and the new WebKit2 layout engine.
System Information – This feature is a re-design of System Profiler.
Terminal has extra features, including full screen mode.
TextEdit gains a new graphical toolbar with font selection and text highlighting. The new TextEdit also supports Apple’s new automatic file saving and versions technologies.
Versions – Time Machine-like saving and browsing of past versions of documents for applications written to use Versions.
OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion, features from Apple’s website:
http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html
Mavericks(OS X 10.9) features: also from Apple:
I saw yesterday that where I am in Australia, OSX Maverick is $21. So thats cheap but Im on Windows 8 :3
It’s always that cheep for everything! The only big price you pay for a Mac is upfront, most things you get, with the exception of professional software, are insanely cheep! You’re also the only person I know with Windows 8, it doesn’t seem very popular.
You are aware that GDT was originally released exclusively on Windows 8, aren’t you? Thus it may be more popular on this site than you realise.
As for Mac OS X being cheap… Apple do have the advantage of requiring that you purchase a $1500 - $2000 computer from them before you can be allowed to install it. Windows and Linux only require that you find compatible drivers for whatever machine you wish to install them on.
I don’t want to start a flamewar, I was just commenting that, given everything I’ve heard, Windows 8 doesn’t seem like a particularly popular operating system amongst Windows users in general. Whether or not this is a fact, I cannot say. And I was not aware of the fact that GDT was originally released exclusively on the Windows 8 store.
I’m not complaining that I can’t run OS X on my PC’s or anything I build that isn’t from Apple, that doesn’t bother me. It wasn’t good for them when they did it before and it doesn’t inconvenience me in the least.
Anyways, I’m really not here to say which is better, and I really don’t want to start a battle here. I like my Mac for the things I do with it, like playing games, creating media and making music, it’s just my preference. I’m sure your PC has many great features, as well, and that it is your preference and I respect that.
Basically…even the cheapest mac/laptop is like $1300, its expensive but considering there is a new OSX, not like Windows when there is a big release each OS release.