100 framework sales! I'm giving away a FREE copy!

Wow, I made my 100th Grey Alien BlitzMax Game Framework sale today! :-) Thanks to all my loyal customers for your continued support over the last year and a half.

To celebrate, I will pick one of my next 3 customers at random (using a rand() statement in BlitzMax) and will give them a full refund - so effectively they get a 100% free copy!

I did his before a while back to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of my framework and it went down well, so I'm doing it again :-)

To find out more about the framework please go here:

http://www.greyaliengames.com/framework.php

I'm really enjoying seeing the games that people are making with my framework and receiving useful feedback from my customers that help me to make the framework better.

It totally works on the Mac now by the way in case you weren't sure.

Also, I'll be releasing V1.05 soonish (1 month maybe). This will be a huge update because I've added in tons of new fancy stuff for the game I'm currently writing for Big Fish Games. It will also include full Vista support and some Mac enhancements. So keep an eye out for it, I'll post it in the showcase.

100? Wow. Congrats! ;)

I know this trick!! I almost fell for it last time.. hehe ;)

Congratulations Jake, good to hear you are still selling strongly.

Talk to you soo, as Q nears it's final phase.

IPete2.

Thanks Guys! Yeah IPete2, game is nearly done so we'll see if there's any time to make HB Gold or not...I hope so, plus I'll have to start contacting portals to take it (probably should have started last month!). Whatever, I'm gonna release a Mac version of it.

I think you should have done a rnd(1,100) and given a refund to one of your existing customers (Which doesnt include my incase anyone thinks that its sour grapes)

My 100th customer already got a 50% refund. They didn't know it was going to be them.

Oh, and well done on 100 sales. For although it doesnt sound like much, as you pointed out, its 100 sales of something you needed to write for yourself anyway.
In a way its like "Found" money, (Nearly 3K????)

Yes indeedy do, Grey Alien, I agree with H&K. Congratulations, Blitzer!

Gotta admit that sounds kinda weird... :D

Finally got around to merging v104 in using TortoiseSVN. Used the diff tool to view the changes, you have been busy, emailed you regarding it. Looking forward to v105 already.

v105 in a month. Over 100 sales! Great to hear it, Jake. I am a great fan of your Framework and I am so glad it's going strong. Actually, if it was not for your Framework I probably would not do anything in BMax. Your Framework opens up so many possibilities for anyone willing to learn it properly.

Barney

Thank you very much everyone for your kind words and support, they mean a lot to me! :-)

H&K: Yeah originally it was just for me and I got this brainwave one day that said "You know, this framework is pretty good, I wonder if anyone else would find it useful". And that thought turned out to be correct. However, Clearly there was a demand that hadn't yet been met. In fact if a decent framework had existed before I made mine, I'D HAVE BOUGHT IT MYSELF! - just to save weeks of coding boring stuff so that I could just get on with my game.

It's a bit like "found" money as you say but I still had to spend a long time making the FAQ, website, docs, adding comments, doing support, sending out updates, doing marketing etc. Plus I often tidy up bits of the framework or add features that I'm not really going to use because I know that other people may well want them.

Anyway, I've learnt loads about BMax writing it, it's been a blast, and I love improving the framework every day. I've just added TDialog transitions so any simple OK or Yes/No dialog can dim the screen and fade on/off or slide on/off etc. Also the TBitmapFont stuff in V1.05 is really powerful, I've updated lots of the other types to make use of it like the dialogs, the listbox, wordwrapping, the labels etc. Plus there's loads of other stuff. Can't wait to release it, but MUST finish my game first as my bank account is empty.

Congratulations :)

Congratulations Grey Alien keep good work up

well that was quick! I've awarded a free version. Thanks very much to all the people who took part.

LarsG: it's no "trick", I won the free copy.

PLS