Blitz Research Ltd is a software company based in

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, New Zealand, specializing in BASIC-based programming languages. Founded in 2000 by Mark Sibly, the company's first product was ''

Blitz BASIC Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand–based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. ...

'' ''2D'', a PC version of the Amiga Blitz Basic, released the same year. In 2001, ''

Blitz3D Blitz BASIC is the programming language dialect of the first Blitz compilers, devised by New Zealand–based developer Mark Sibly. Being derived from BASIC, Blitz syntax was designed to be easy to pick up for beginners first learning to program. ...

'' was launched, enabling developers to create 3D games and applications using

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. In 2003, ''BlitzPlus'' succeeded Blitz BASIC 2D, offering extended capabilities for developing

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applications as well as games. In December 2004, the company released '' BlitzMax'' for

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, and

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, supporting both

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and DirectX. In 2011, Blitz Research introduced the ''Monkey'' programming language and the ''Monkey X'' game engine, capable of generating code in C++, C#,

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, and

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, among others. ''Monkey 2'' was announced in May 2015. Blitz Research also developed the ''Maplet'' 3D modelling tool, which is no longer supported.

References

External links

Blitz Research subsite
on itch.io (BlitzPlus, Blitz 3D, Monkey X, Monkey 2)
Monkey X subsite
(open source)
Monkey 2 subsiteblitz-research (Mark Sibly)
on

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(BlitzPlus, BlitzMax, Blitz3D, Monkey, BlitzMax, Blitz3D for MSVC-CE 2017)
Blitz Research website
(archived 3 June 2017)
Monkey X website
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