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News from Mark Sibly regarding Monkey X and BlitzBasic...

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:04 pm
by Krix
Mark Sibly made a statement on his personal blog site saying that Monkey X sales are not as good as he expected.
He'll continue to support Monkey X but big improvements (also mentioned Monkey 2) will put on hold.

He also released the source code of BlitzPlus on github.

Read more here:

http://marksibly.blogspot.ca/
http://monkey-x.com/Community/posts.php ... 548&page=6
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/pos ... pic=102444

Re: News from Mark Sibly regarding Monkey X and BlitzBasic..

Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 3:23 am
by kenmo
Interesting... glad he's being honest about the situation, I hope sales come up a bit!

The language has some quirks, but it is pretty nice to write a game and pretty easily generate desktop/browser/Android/iOS versions.

Re: News from Mark Sibly regarding Monkey X and BlitzBasic..

Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 12:44 pm
by Fred
Always interesting reads. Doing new stuffs and experiments isn't easy and I wish good luck to Mark, he deserves it.

ps: 29 years of self doing stuffs is awesome :).

Re: News from Mark Sibly regarding Monkey X and BlitzBasic..

Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 7:44 pm
by said
ps: 290 years of Fred doing stuffs is awesome :).

Long life PB :D :D

Re: News from Mark Sibly regarding Monkey X and BlitzBasic..

Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 8:05 pm
by Polo
This also shows how stable Purebasic has been over the years, still developed after more than 10 years!

Re: News from Mark Sibly regarding Monkey X and BlitzBasic..

Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 2:04 am
by tj1010
He has a good web design and the concept is very marketable. The pipeline must have too many quirks and/or they don't market enough.

I know there is no shortage of people who want to build native(as in not webview based) apps with fast turn-around.. AGK, Titanium, PhoneGap aren't even competition because of bugs and bad design, people just use them because they are the only option..

If your product fails in popularity and in you're in a niche market, it means you're probably doing something wrong..

Re: News from Mark Sibly regarding Monkey X and BlitzBasic..

Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 3:59 am
by Kuron
ps: Image years of Fred doing stuff is awesome :).

Infinite life PB! :D :D

Re: News from Mark Sibly regarding Monkey X and BlitzBasic..

Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 5:48 am
by TI-994A
Polo wrote:...still developed after more than 10 years!
Coming up to its Sweet Sixteen very soon! :wink: