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'''Blitz Research Ltd''' is an [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]]{{En dash}}based company which currently produces three BASIC based programming languages. Founded in 2000 by Mark Sibly, the company's first product was the now obsolete [[Blitz BASIC]] 2D, a PC version of the Amiga [[Blitz Basic]]. It was released the same year as the company's foundation. In 2001, [[Blitz3D]] was released. This allowed programmers to create 3D games and applications in Blitz Basic using [[DirectX]].

In 2003, Blitz Basic 2D was rendered obsolete by the more recent BlitzPlus. BlitzPlus built on the foundations of Blitz Basic 2D and also allowed programmers to create true [[Microsoft Windows]] programs as well as games.

In December 2004, Blitz Research released the [[BlitzMax]] programming language for [[Mac OS X]], [[Windows]], and [[Linux]]. Unlike all the other Blitz programming languages, BlitzMax can use either [[OpenGL]] or DirectX.

In 2011, Blitz Research released the programing language Monkey along with Monkey X, a game engine producing [[C++]], [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[JavaScript]], and [[ActionScript]] code, among other languages.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/monkey-saves-time-for-game-developers |title=Monkey saves time for game developers |work=Computerworld New Zealand |first=Ulrika |last=Hedquist |date=10 June 2011 |access-date=11 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611042144/http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/monkey-saves-time-for-game-developers |archive-date=11 June 2011}}</ref> In May 2015 Monkey 2 was announced.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://marksibly.blogspot.com/2015/05/monkey2.html|title=Monkey2!|website=markspace|first=Mark|last=Sibly|date=2015-05-02|access-date=2023-09-27}}</ref>

Blitz Research also produced the Maplet modelling tool, which is now no longer supported. 

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://blitzresearch.itch.io/ Blitz Research subsite] on [[itch.io]] (BlitzPlus, Blitz 3D, Monkey X, Monkey 2)
**[https://blitzresearch.itch.io/monkeyx Monkey X subsite] (open source)
**[https://blitzresearch.itch.io/monkey2 Monkey 2 subsite]
*[https://github.com/blitz-research blitz-research (Mark Sibly)] on [[GitHub]] (BlitzPlus, BlitzMax, Blitz3D, Monkey, BlitzMax, Blitz3D for MSVC-CE 2017)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170603205639/http://www.blitzbasic.com/ Blitz Research website] (archived 3 June 2017)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170715134814/http://monkey-x.com/ Monkey X website] (archived 15 July 2017)

[[Category:BASIC programming language]]
[[Category:Software companies of New Zealand]]


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