Philip,

Thanks for that statement. That really clears up a lot of questions,
and now we all know where you stand.

Cheers!


On 12/13/13, Philip Bennefall <phi...@blastbay.com> wrote:
> Hi Davy and others,
>
> I wanted to stop by and briefly explain my current intentions for BGT. When
> I started developing it in late 2009, I had absolutely no idea how it would
> do financially. Now, 4 years down the line I can say that while sales have
> been reasonable considering the number of potential developers in the blind
> community, BGT is not and has never been something that I am going to get
> rich from. I never figured I would, either, but the truth is that it simply
> would not make sense for me to spend the amount of time and effort that
> would be involved porting it to a new platform. I am certainly not
> discounting Mac OS X/IOS as viable distribution channels. They are growing
> every day and I target them in all the mainstream projects that I am
> involved in at present. These other projects were written with cross
> platform support in mind from the get-go, while BGT was written exclusively
> for Windows. This means that BGT would require a major overhaul to be
> portable to other platforms, and I do not feel that an investment on such a
> scale would be viable at this point considering my current schedule.
>
> Had I decided to create an audio game engine at this time, it would
> certainly have been written with cross platform compatibility in mind from
> the start. This is not the case with BGT, however, and I cannot spend much
> more time and money developing it considering the sales figures it has been
> generating thus far. This certainly does not mean that BGT is going to be
> abandoned. Far from it. I still enjoy making games as a hobby from time to
> time, and for that, it works very well for my needs. But I will not be
> working on it full time as I did a year ago. So for those of you who have
> been hoping for a cross platform BGT release, I am sorry I can't bring more
> positive news. However I felt it was better to clearly announce my
> intentions as opposed to staying silent and leaving users to wonder and
> speculate.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Philip Bennefall
>
>
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