I have a niece who wants to make a video game. I have 0 experience teaching and am very likely to recommend her some crazy complicated shit that will turn her off to the idea. She’s 8. Anyone have experience with this? Her first instinct was to try and make games in the Roblox engine but I know exactly how exploitative that shit is and how nontransferable those skills are
Libre software is a must
Look for Scratch solutions. Once they've got a handle on this there's a number of toys and things that use it. Lego mindstorms, star wars force sensor toys, crap like that.
Didn’t know about that Lego toys. That’s very appealing
I don't know how many versions there are, but it's the ev3 that does scratch.