SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

Hello everyone,

This is Maher aka 'Sphinx' at the BRL forums.

I am glad to find this forums after feeling homeless for a while 
I was shocked when I knew that Mark 'destroyed' everything and burnt the ship!!

I bought every product of BRL, loyal user of Blitz since the Amiga days till Monkey X, wrote a few games in BB and B+, converted my games to BlitzMax after its launch by a year or so to target Mac OSX back then.

Unfortunately I got so busy with my day job for a big project (Machine Vision software for Clinical laboratories called SpermoLyzer if anyone interested to have a look). This project started 2007 till a few weeks ago, too much time was taking for implementing new features, modules, testing...etc through the last 10 years, my only condolences for that enormous time is that it paid back well.

Anyway, I am now trying to get the dust off of my very old website and old games, I am reviewing my games, updating a few things to publish it using a pay what you want model.

I do appreciate if you give me your 2 cents regarding this especially what marketing channels should I use?!

Also, I want to use IGlass GUI with my games because my old own GUI sucks.
I found this http://www.syntaxbomb.com/index.php/topic,81.msg757.html#msg757 but when I downloaded and tried it, it gives an error because of Include "./IGL_Classe/Inc_IGlass.bmx" is not found!
Can anyone help me here please as the author website is down!

Next step is porting my old games for iOS and Android.
May be using Monkey/Cerberus X or Monkey 2, what do you guys suggest?

Thanks and sorry for long post

Hey Maher

This is 'Nebula' from the old forum.

MonkeyX is probably not the best choice for products that need to live long. So with the choices you gave I would go for Monkey2 or CerebusX. But do you know Libgdx?

MonkeyX took a dive from top 3 placing to 20 or so in this list :

https://www.slant.co/topics/341/~best-2d-game-engines


Btw : I was confused about the spermolyzer name until I read that it actually is for sperm analysis.

IGlass was sold by Filax and there never was a free version when his site went down. I never bought it and the only thing I have is IGlass Studio which doesn't appear to come with IGlass but if you want to try here is the download and source.

There's no support for BMX GUIs any more, the only person who might be still around is "jsp" who is the author of Logic GUI Professional, a MaxGUI form editor but that is not a game GUI.

For BMX games there is FryGUI or ifsoGUI, both are supposed to be stable.

FryGUI is by Fry Crayola (info here).

IfsoGUI is by TaskMaster

QuoteFeaturing a skinnable interface with many common gadgets and an event system; ifsoGUI enables the developer to quickly and easily add a GUI to his/her application or game. Including capabilities like function callbacks, an event system that includes common events like "Click", "Change", "Mouse Down", "Mouse Move", etc., mouse over graphics, and more.

Quote from: Pakz on September 05, 2017, 10:49:04
Hey Maher

This is 'Nebula' from the old forum.

How are you man?!
I remember when we chat many times on IRC, glad to see you again

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MonkeyX is probably not the best choice for products that need to live long. So with the choices you gave I would go for Monkey2 or CerebusX. But do you know Libgdx?

I kinda lost trust of Mark!!
I heared about LibGDX of course but I think I will try Cerberus X, LOVE or maybe AppGameKit!

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MonkeyX took a dive from top 3 placing to 20 or so in this list :

https://www.slant.co/topics/341/~best-2d-game-engines

Shame on bad decisions and not listening to loyal customers!!!

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Btw : I was confused about the spermolyzer name until I read that it actually is for sperm analysis.

Yeah, it is confusing if you did not read any description!

Quote from: markcwm on September 05, 2017, 13:05:59
IGlass was sold by Filax and there never was a free version when his site went down. I never bought it and the only thing I have is IGlass Studio which doesn't appear to come with IGlass but if you want to try here is the download and source.

There's no support for BMX GUIs any more, the only person who might be still around is "jsp" who is the author of Logic GUI Professional, a MaxGUI form editor but that is not a game GUI.

For BMX games there is FryGUI or ifsoGUI, both are supposed to be stable.

FryGUI is by Fry Crayola (info here).

IfsoGUI is by TaskMaster

QuoteFeaturing a skinnable interface with many common gadgets and an event system; ifsoGUI enables the developer to quickly and easily add a GUI to his/her application or game. Including capabilities like function callbacks, an event system that includes common events like "Click", "Change", "Mouse Down", "Mouse Move", etc., mouse over graphics, and more.

Thanks a lot markcwm

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I was shocked when I knew that Mark 'destroyed' everything and burnt the ship!!

Haha, well put 

Hi sphinx, I remember the name.  And I remember you being a guy who likes to write optimised code.  Always a good thing.

Quote from: Steve Elliott on September 05, 2017, 17:54:15
Hi sphinx, I remember the name.  And I remember you being a guy who likes to write optimised code.  Always a good thing.

Hi Steve
You'r right, that was old lovely BlitzCoder's website days 
Actually I feel SyntaxBomb website is similar to BlitzCoder, I am sure it will mature and be much better.

I remember you too and if I am not mistaken you made a 'Space Invaders' type of game which I played and liked!

SyntaxBomb is picking up the stragglers of the Blitz site it seems lol.

Glad you liked my Invaders/Galaxians type game...I just had a go.  Takes me right back to the good old days of Blitz.