FEZ going multiplatform later this year

FINALLYYYYYYYYYYY =D

Been wanting to try this one forever.

Didn't look at the title and misread the image. Read it as PEZ(you know, those candy things).
I was shocked

Sweet, love the footage I've seen of Fez, glad to see it'll (probably) be on a platform I actually own.

I find that porting is so stupid, if the game was coded on a PC surely it can just be compiled for a PC. I don't understand anything about compiling games for different platforms at all - I am still in High School and we don't do a lot of game design in Computing Studies. Definetly going to uni for this though, consoles and porting loses me though - just don't get why it should get ported BACK to PC. If someone could explain that'd be great, don't get me wrong here I understand A LOT about computers. But that is not to say I don't know a lot of things about them

It's been a couple years since I had a programming course, but this should be on-point or close enough to properly illustrate why porting is a thing:
Programs are built on the systems they were made to run on. Those systems, PC, Mac, Xbax400, whatever, all have specific ways they interact with said programs, and specific ways those programs need to be made in order to interact properly. There are some programming languages, like Java, which are more universal, and can run on anything, but when it comes to 99% of video games (aka, not Minecraft), the game actually has to be ported to work on any new system. This is why it's a process, and not a "well it works on an everything".

In short: Remember when we got all of that news from developers saying the PS3 was hard to code for? And how Skyrim's DLC hasn't ever worked on that system because it just won't function right without causing immense lag? That's not developers lying and then going to have a beer, those are actual things.