Hi Thomas,
What you say makes sense. I realize that cross platform support is important
to you personally, I have just been getting the impression that you have
been attempting to somehow discredit the general usefulness of the engine on
this basis alone. Your last newsletter for instance has many such remarks
that, to me, were quite unnecessary in terms of the tone. I realize that it
may not have been meant that way, but it gives me the impression that you
felt it necessary to paint BGT in a rather negative light in order to stress
the importance of your own product. Then this message came on top of that
last night and so I wanted to say something. The fact that BGT is
recommended is, of course, something that I'm personally very happy about
but it should not hinder you in any way from making a competing product with
cross platform support and then letting people decide what to use.
I will be the first to say that BGT is not suitable if you want support for
Linux, Mac or mobile devices, but the fact remains that Windows still has
the absolute majority of the blind market. What I'm saying is, I'm sure we
can develop our engines simultaneously and help one another by recommending
our respective products to users depending on their requirements, rather
than work against one another and try to bring the other package down on
whatever grounds. I for one think that it is a great initiative that you're
taking with your engine, and will not hesitate to recommend it to people
should cross platform be an important factor for them. And this is despite
the fact that we're competing! Smile.
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: <phi...@blastbay.com>; "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] tips on programming
Hi Philip,
My apologies regarding the tone of my prior message. It came off a bit
harsher than I had intended. I've always admired the work you've done
with BGT, but at the same time I do get a bit frustrated about the fact
its now the first thing everyone thinks of when anyone mentions game
development. In particular, because it only targets one group of gamers.
In this specific case the option or potential to develop games for other
platforms was mentioned so naturally I have a personal stake in the
outcome of that decision. However, instead of some more cross-platform
suggestions being proposed it just seemed to me like BGT is being
offfered up as the one-size fits all solution when of course it lacked
the most important feature to me which was cross-platform support.
However, as you said all of this really depends on how much
cross-platform support matters to the developer personally, but I
didn['t want the cross-platform option to be ignored or taken too lightly.
Cheers!
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