Hi Paulette,
It's difficult to say. A friend of mine who had next to no prior programming
knowledge managed to pick up the kit and make a small game after about 4 or
5 days, but for some other people it has taken over a year; sometimes even
longer. So it is a very individual thing whether programming comes
intuitively. BGT does simplify a lot of aspects regarding the actual code
logic in terms of giving you fewer things that you have to worry about, but
you still need a firm understanding of things such as variables, functions,
conditional statements such as if and while, classes, etc. The demo version
of my BGT engine is free, but is almost entirely fully featured. It comes
with an extensive tutorial that attempts to guide you, step by step, through
the process of learning the actual language. Then there are other tutorials
that kick in where the language one left off, teaching you in more practical
terms how to turn your knowledge of the syntax into actual games. You can
find it at www.blastbay.com if you are interested to read more.
Good luck!
Kind regards,
Philip Bennefall
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paulette Vickery" <[email protected]>
To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT - Most wanted features?
Hi Tom,
So, do you think that someone like me who doesn't know anything about game
creation could create a game using this kit and purchasing the sounds, etc.,
that would be needed for the game?
Paulette
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Thomas Ward
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:38 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BGT - Most wanted features?
Hi,
BGT stands for Blastbay Game Toolkit. Its a game engine, a toolkit,
developed by Philip Bennefall to help simplify the process of developing
audio games for the blind. He wrote all the low level code for audio,
networking, input, etc into BGT and then exposes that functionality through
simple scripts that are easy to learn to program and compile without the
complexity of learning a full blown programming language like C++.
Cheers!
On 4/23/2012 11:00 AM, Paulette Vickery wrote:
Hi Philip,
What is, BGT? Thanks.
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