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

  • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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    3 years ago

    We learned on HyperCard on the old Macs. Surprisingly, you could slap together a (limited) dungeon crawler RPG in that.

    Edit: Also, Gary Kitchen's Game Maker on the C64 was a blast when I was a kid; I learned a lot of the fundamentals of Commodore BASIC thanks to that, and it had music, sprite, and fullscreen graphics editors built in.