Does Monkey have a future? I think so!
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| Why hello! For the past year and a bit (on and off), I have been working on a translator program that takes save files of construct 2 projects, then converts them into monkey + ignition code. If you don't know, construct 2 is a great game making tool, but it is limited in its export options. There has been a huge cry out for native exporters on the C2 forums, so last year I started on this program. A lot of bugs to sort out but so far so good. As far as I see it this could be a huge opportunity to bring in new blood, or at least new revenue for Blitz and Playniax, as they would have to purchase the monkey + ignition bundle. I believe in Monkey, do you? |
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| what a cool idea! I wish you the best of luck. |
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| Yeah, cool! Got a demo? |
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| I don't own ignition but I do think monkeyX has a future, I tend at the moment to use monkeyX and the EdzUp Framework :) |
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| I'm using MonkeyX (Mungo version) for my company pc/console game: http://www.2dark.cc It's now the time to start to make the console targets... |
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| Yes! MonkeyX definitely has a future! It is easy to learn, takes minimal resources to develop in (any laptop will do), and coding in this language is fast! I plan to keep using it for all my projects. |
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| I have changed to Nim for my next game. http://nim-lang.org/ |
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| Nim looks interesting. In some ways it's a bit like Monkey. But where is the Nim version of mojo? It seems like you will have to engage with the target SDK to make your game. |
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| You have to write everything yourself. But it's not very complicated, https://github.com/blitz-research/monkey/blob/develop/modules/mojo/native/mojo.glfw.cpp That's about 1000 lines of code, in nim it's around 400 lines. |
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| @Playniax No demo yet, just the full source. Hopefully something in the next few months :). |
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| @Playniax @marksibly Darn it! So i came up with the perfect name for my product, Albertron. Albert, being the first monkey in space, ignition: going into space, and tron, because Construct is sorta like a robot. But NO! I hear a new monkey and ignition is coming out, so i probably have to change all my translators :(. And playniax is calling ignition 2 Pyro! Pyro? What am i supposed to do with that?? Albertron ... it just rolls off the tongue. Well, back to the naming board... ;) On a more serious note: Will the Pyro codebase be similar in terms of structure to IgnitionX? Great news on Monkey2 and Pyro :D Cheers, Tom |
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| What will you do when C3 is out? And will your tool be available for free? |
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