yeah, blitz3D doesn't really attract a lot of artists unless they are also programmers. And there really aren't that many artists that want to code too.
One of Garage Games strengths is that the community is open to everyone, and not just owners of their products. As a consequence there are 100's if not 1000's of artists, musicians, coders, and everything in between taking part in the community and offering services.
Not much of that happens here, and with a tool badged as being a hobbyist tool for beginners it's no wonder that blitz doesn't attract a lot of outside interest.
One of the big failings of blitz research marketing. That combined with the lone bedroom coder mentality makes it really hard to make a concentrated effort at developing a ambitious project and show off what blitz is really capable of. Most coders want to do all the coding themselves and as a consequence projects are rarely ambitious enough to warrant more than a 2 man team. Real shame as from my experience with a handfull of people here a commercial quality game is easily possible. Anyway looks like I'm starting to rant a bit ;)
One of Garage Games strengths is that the community is open to everyone, and not just owners of their products. As a consequence there are 100's if not 1000's of artists, musicians, coders, and everything in between taking part in the community and offering services.
Not much of that happens here, and with a tool badged as being a hobbyist tool for beginners it's no wonder that blitz doesn't attract a lot of outside interest.
One of the big failings of blitz research marketing. That combined with the lone bedroom coder mentality makes it really hard to make a concentrated effort at developing a ambitious project and show off what blitz is really capable of. Most coders want to do all the coding themselves and as a consequence projects are rarely ambitious enough to warrant more than a 2 man team. Real shame as from my experience with a handfull of people here a commercial quality game is easily possible. Anyway looks like I'm starting to rant a bit ;)