AGK vs Monkey?!

[ms62]

sphinx, I see risk for those young guys who want to enter game producing industry. There are two paths, one is to be hired, the other is to develop your own game and sell. If they spend time on unknown languages and environments, they develop some skills that there are no demand for. Of course, some skills are abstract, but most of the firms prefer not to spend on training for transition. Another risk of spending time is the one that you say, and is true; you put your time (money is equivalent to time in capitalism, we don't charge them in traffic jam, they charge us for the gas in our car) on a product, then you see the product is abandoned; it is like burning your paper money.

[Steve Elliott]

Soo very true sphinx, that is why myself and others are done with Mark and BRL.

[sphinx]

sphinx, I see risk for those young guys who want to enter game producing industry. There are two paths, one is to be hired, the other is to develop your own game and sell. If they spend time on unknown languages and environments, they develop some skills that there are no demand for. Of course, some skills are abstract, but most of the firms prefer not to spend on training for transition. Another risk of spending time is the one that you say, and is true; you put your time (money is equivalent to time in capitalism, we don't charge them in traffic jam, they charge us for the gas in our car) on a product, then you see the product is abandoned; it is like burning your paper money.

People who look for getting hired do not even care to try out anything but industry standards (C++, Java or even C# through Unity...etc).
Indie developers like us, hobbyists or young guys who want to enter game producing industry has many options to choose from, if I am new and looking for something to start with (either a programming language or point and click) I am sure I will not choose Blitz products, not because they are weak or feature poor but because the knowledge I gain about BRL history and for the sake of my future.

Though, I like Blitz products, I even made many cool things/games with it and as a matter of fact I am still using it, but not for too long as I am moving away!

[MikeHart]

For AGK, I think its BASIC converts codes to C++ then runs C++.

Nope, AGK Tier 1 is an interpreted language. Your BASIC code is compiled to a bytecode, which will be run by the interpreter/player. That code calls into the AGK API, the same that is used in Tier2 directly.

[sphinx]

By 'BRL history' I do not mean bad (They are great guys and their history is good) but I am talking about me (the end user) wasting a lot of time!, please review my post #91 above!

[ms62]

Sphinx, you don't have stats to say "what" people think. Relax

MikeHart, thanks, your Monkey book was a good one. Unfortunately, I was in love with BlitzMax.

[sphinx]

Sphinx, you don't have stats to say "what" people think. Relax

MikeHart, thanks, your Monkey book was a good one. Unfortunately, I was in love with BlitzMax.

You are right, it is all based on my readings!