The game plays well already - it's not extremely system intensive, but the graphical flairs are all there, and controls are very responsive. " We're going to do as much as possible to make sure the performance is not only good but keeps getting better." "Obviously, there's going to be some hurdles that we have to go through," Mieczkowski said.
They're using Cider to port the game over, and though they're aware of the issues with Cider in the past, they're taking the time to get it right. "If we were to split the focus on both PC and Mac development, it would have slowed down a lot of the other things we wanted to do for the game," associate producer Steve Mieczkowski told me.
Of course, right after they answered that question of why their game is coming to the Mac (because people want it there), the next question was: why now? When they launched, they said they wanted to devote as many resources as possible to making the game itself. I got to check out the game on official Apple hardware, ask them if they had any problems porting it over, and poke them a little bit about how RTS games might work on the iPad. But Riot is convinced that "there's millions of gamers out there" who want to run their game natively, and so sometime later this year, it'll be available in OS X. The game uses a free to play model, so if you're running Boot Camp, you can go and download it right now and play to your heart's content. Now LoL is coming to the Mac - Riot Games invited me to come and see the game this week running natively on their MacBook Pro. "LoL," as players are calling it, actually has the best pedigree of all the DotA clones - two of the mods' designers were (and still are) involved in the games' development. The mod proved so popular that game companies are now creating their own official versions of it, and League of Legends is one of those - a "DotA"-style mix of hack-and-slash gameplay combined with a few RTS elements created by Riot Games. Defense of the Ancients is one of the most interesting stories in all of gaming - it was originally a player-created mod for the Warcraft III real-time strategy game, and it completely revamped the RTS game into a RPG/hack-and-slash mashup, where the player controlled a champion character that fought to turn the tide of battle on a player-vs-player map.
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