With a recent vote of confidence at WWDC this week from both EA and id Software, it looks like everything is turning up Mac these days. And it looks like the campaign to bring higher end gaming titles to the Mac was led by who else but those who’ll be making the games: the developers.

In an interview with Transgaming software president and CEO Vikas Gupta over at Red Herring, he claims that EA:

“…had a lot of people internally who were passionate about the Mac. It was a good mix of corporate initiative with grassroots perspective.”

For those unfamiliar, EA announced the release of an array of titles for the Mac this year. They struck a deal with Transgaming to use its Cider technology to develop and convert these games for the Mac. He goes on to say:

“Mac gamers can look forward to many more high quality titles that have never been available before on the Mac. With the EA deal this is certainly the beginning. Our strategy [here] is to make gaming on the Mac mainstream.”

An article at Digital Arts also provides some evidence to show that developers are beginning to adopt the Mac not just for personal use but for developmental tasks as well.

At WWDC, while demoing their new Tech 5 gaming engine, John Carmack of id Software stated that

“Since many developers at id have made the switch to the Mac for their personal use, we decided it was now time to bring our core game technology to OS X,” stated Carmack during his demonstration, adding that “the latest Macs are the fastest systems in [their] offices” during certain processing tasks.”

It’s a good sign when the developers are becoming bigger fans of Macs. And they may have spoken: “Once you go Mac, you never go back.”

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