New Lion App Store : Will it take Power Game Factory games?

ironhide1975 wrote:
With the announcement of the new Macos App store in Lion will it take games created from third party software such as 'Power Game Factory'?

First of all, Lion will not arrive until Summer 2011. The Mac App Store will be here "within 90 days". It has nothing to do with Lion.

As long as your application conforms to the Mac App Store requirements, it should be fine.

I downloaded Power Game Factory and built the demo, it looks like games produced form this tools would qualify on a technical level. Each game would still have to be approved by Apple on both technical and non-technical terms.

If so this could be a huge revival of the gaming industry on the mac! What are the requirements for Apps submitted to the new App store?

Read them for yourself: http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/mac/documents/submitting.html

ironhide1975 wrote:
I tried the submission link and I get accessed denied. Do I need to purchase the full developer's program?

Yes. It is $99.

ironhide1975 wrote:
So I just heard on TWIT that apps needs to be packaged in Xcode and No Third Party installers.

Don't trust what you see on the internet. There is way too much misinformation there.

Since the apps are already generated from PGF I'm presuming this won't work with the App Store?

Not at all. You can package applications built with other tools. As long as they conform to the Mac App Store guidlines, one .app is the same as another. There is a section in the Mac App Store Guide that describes how to do that.

ironhide1975 wrote:
So an app can be created by something else than XCode and Apple won't freak out? Does it have to be %100 cocoa, I think PGF is carbon based. My fear is that I pay $99 and find out that unless I code in XCode Apple won't take the app.

Nothing is guaranteed. If Apple won't accept it you can still sell it on your own.

keep in mind carbon is not 64-bit and apple is making a big push for 64-bit

No, but you might be treading into dangerous water using an API that is 32-bit, right now it's fine, but you should be weary of that fact.

I am quite sure that the people behind Power Game Factory and REALBasic are aware of these issues. Both really need their apps to be acceptable for the Mac app store and if there is any way to make that happen, they will make it happen.

^ Definitely a good point