I was told it was 2014.
Why has he stopped? it was a great tool for it's time.

It's not his focus anymore. He's got other priorities now, most notably his business at Elias. He himself has said that BGT was good for its time, and that people should really move on from it now. I think the 2016 build you are referring to was a private version with patches for a specific company that paid for it which was never released to the public.

Hi.
It's weird, it has no longer been updated, but liam hinted in another topic that development was going ahead but that it was being kept quiet. I think serious programmers have moved on from this, or at least they should.

@philip_bennefall are we to take that, as an official statement from the bgt creator or from the private person philip bennefall

I'd say that's about as official as you're going to get. Also I'm moving this in tot he Development room where it belongs.

In my opinion the developer should not have taken so long to advertise bgt as an abandoned project.
So we would be sure he would not receive any more updates.
What is the difference of a freware product from an abandonware product?
Following this logic, the free would maibe receive updates and the second would not, obviously.

About private patches is also something I did not quite understand. Why then does not bgt become a donationware product?
Anyway ... It's sad to see such a project end up for whatever reason. We do not have many options in specific tools for creating games like bgt. And when a person wants to put out their creative ideas, what they need is just that.
Learning programming languages is very important, but ultimately the creator of a game ends up being unproductive because he spends his time studying the working of modules and other complicated things, especially for those who do not have the patience.
It's just my opinion ...

A 64 bit compiler would be nice though. and yeah, @13, I'm trying to learn python, and I just don't have the patience.

I assumed that when a developer says a project is dead, it's well and truly dead. The developer has not only said as much here, he's also added that bgt is inferior to other options. If you know that and choose to work with it anyway, you'll have to work within the bounds of what it can do and be aware of what it can't. You also have to know that it's not going to change. Looks like it might be time to learn something that has a 64 bit compiler and won't be falsely detected as a virus, then...

@ 17 Yes, the developer said so. However, his positioning before was that bgt would continue to receive updates when time allowed, which still showed some interest in the project.
HTTP://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gbv=1&ie=UTF-8&q=BGT+important+updates&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwje3uS3y7XiAhVyBtQKHWTOAmQQvwV6BAgLEAE
What I realize is that, given the criticisms about the limitations of the tool, the developer is no longer interested in continuing development beyond the lack of time.
@ 16 Yes, the developer owes nothing. I'm not charging for the updates. I'm just commenting on what the developer said when bgt was free. Incidentally, this was a gift for the whole community and some people should give some kind of satisfaction and generally are those who spend the day in the forum talking bullshit and do not program a line of code and do not know take advantage of the limitations.
@ 18 You're one of them, man. Mostly you. Forcing people not to use bgt just because you do not like it is not the best way to help any developer if you do not discourage them, both the one who created the engine and those who play games with it.
If you base your answers on internet searches and popular forums such as Stack Over Flow, please join those places until you think you can actually contribute something.

It is for these and other things that I do not interact much here in the forum because I earnestly earn more time doing other useful things than reading answers like this that add absolutely nothing.
Other people will also start doing this if they are not already doing it.

I do wish I could learn another programming language.

Hello,

Two things About anti-virus:

1. Phillip has no control about anti-virus software, as none other developer has really. For example, me too, each time I release a new version of the playroom windows client, it is also often flagged.
Gradually anti-virus stop flagging afeter a while because they see that the same copy has been downloaded a few thousends of times, and they assume that, since many people use it, it finally has probably no virus.

In fact the only way to make sure not to be ever flagged is to certificate sign your software; what of course costs a few hundreds dollars a year.
So, as a developer, we need to make a choice: enter in the business logic, or remain free. For the playroom I chose to stay free as long as donations are sufficient to keep the system up.

2. In fact, even if Phillip would release a new version of BGT, it is always probably going to be flagged by anti-virus anyway.
The problem is that BGT use a few techniques that are also sometimes used by malwares. I won't go into details here but if you are interested, make a search about self-extracting executable, executables with appended resources, or resource injection.
By the way, these techniques prevent from signing executables altogether, so he couldn't have done it while BGT was a paid software anyway.

And now, a more general thing:

When Phillip decided to release the full version of BGT for free, you should consider that it was part of an abandon. It should have been a signal that he weren't going to work on it anymore.

It's easy to say this after 5 years of hindsight, but think about it 2 minutes: why would you stop selling something and suddenly give it away for free ?
IF you are planing updates, you don't do this; you continue your business... don't you ?
It would have been different if BGT was totally free from the beginning. But remember, it wasn't.

In the same situation, many others continue selling their product without promising any update, laugh at you or even don't answer at all when the product doesn't work anymore after 6 months, or even, in extreme cases, the company totally disappear. In all these cases you may feel stolen. By releasing BGT for free, nobody can't say anything.
In fact, Phillip took a quite honnest decision here. He could have gone further by releasing BGT in open source, but making it free is already quite fair compared to many others who don't care so much.

I find the decision about Q9 much worse and infortunate, where he should have done the same, but well... it's another topic.