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 Posted : Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 03:38 | Permalink | Mark Here |
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| Posted : Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 06:32 | Permalink | Mark Here |
Afr0
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To be honest, I'm kind of opposed to the idea of spending money on development tools at all. If I'm going to start my own indie game company some day (which I've thought of), it makes more sense, but until then I'd rather not.
And even then it puts you in the odd position of forcing people to learn a third-party language if anyone but yourself comes aboard to do any programming!
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| Posted : Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 06:52 | Permalink | Mark Here |
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Thats true of the platforms themselves though. To do an iOS app, you have to lear objective C, for android its Java etc.
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| Posted : Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 06:55 | Permalink | Mark Here |
Afr0
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By "third-party" in this case, I'm talking about languages that aren't free and can be learned and taught by anyone. That's true of DarkBASIC and whatever language is used by App Game Kit, not of Objective C and Java etc.
The difference is that you can advertise for Java programmers, C++ programmers and so on; you can't necessarily do that for DarkBASIC or BlitzMonkey programmers and expect to get decent replies.
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| Posted : Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 09:31 | Permalink | Mark Here |
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spinal  To do an iOS app, you have to lear objective C
In addition to Objective C and AGK, you can also use C++ as the Tier 2 park of AGK uses it. 
If you use the AGK Tier 2/C++ framework, you can do all the OOP stuff that you can't do in the Basic AGK compiler. | |
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| Posted : Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 12:31 | Permalink | Mark Here |
Afr0
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BlitzMonkey is very nice though, cos you get the best of both worlds;
People wanting to program in Objective C can do that, people wanting to program in BlitzMonkey can do that, and you can combine the two after the fact!
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| Posted : Wednesday, 09 May 2012, 15:35 | Permalink | Mark Here |
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Yeah I agree that monkey is a good piece of kit but AGK with it's lower price could help many upstarts on their way forward.
I purchased an AGK license last year shortly after it was released, early adopters got a discount which also helped. | |
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