BRL's marketing is a joke. They definately need a PR and marketing guy. Not just to promote Blitzmax to build a userbase and industry recognition. But also to negotiate deals with middle ware.
Like Ageia, Torque and Dark basic both have special arrangements with Ageia that will allow developers to use their API's for free. And thats just one recent example.
Blitz is percieved as a failure because no one sees what's produced with it, what its capable of. And I don't think many of the big industry partners for other indie engines are really blitz aware at all.
Torque has Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, ATI, Intel,Via, Autodesk, real arcade, shockwave, yahoo games, trymedia systems, reflexive as a sample of some of their business partners that offer them and their developers all kinds of support.
Like Ageia, Torque and Dark basic both have special arrangements with Ageia that will allow developers to use their API's for free. And thats just one recent example.
Blitz is percieved as a failure because no one sees what's produced with it, what its capable of. And I don't think many of the big industry partners for other indie engines are really blitz aware at all.
Torque has Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, ATI, Intel,Via, Autodesk, real arcade, shockwave, yahoo games, trymedia systems, reflexive as a sample of some of their business partners that offer them and their developers all kinds of support.