The Drunken Lizard Pub

Curious about your team's dev platform plans.. and sorry if I missed previous posts.

Awhile back I purchased a license for blitzmax and blide, but never got started. Recently I revisted / reinstalled to discover that the folks that made blitzmax are now touting their new language"monkey" along with ...

Steve,

One word of warning, a bit late now I know, the manual leaves a little to be desired. My suggestion to you is to read it through a couple of times, bar maybe all the modules documentation, then start playing with some examples. Be sure to post questions on BlitzMax.com, we are very helpful ...

Glad to see my original post grabbed some attention. Thanks for all the replies everyone . So I snagged a copy of blitzmax, does the basilisk team generally stick with the maxide? or do you guys also use Blide? I didn't understand why Blide requires MinGW.

http://www.blide.org/?p=158

-Steve

Hey BW. I can recall trying to look at c++ in the past and all I ended up with was a headache. Not sure I'm ready for it. Professionally, I've been a web app guy for the past decade+ and I think blitzmax would be a good start for me. I'm also really attracted to the idea that it has cross-platform ...

Thx all for the replies. So my next question.. suggestions on where to look for indie teams doing RPGs in BlitzMax, -- where I could become involved to get my hands dirty and learn about the language, etc?

I'm another 39 year old IT/programmer guy who may want to make his own isometric rpg someday What tools/languages were used to create eschalon, and where should one start?