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

    • ImSoOCD [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Honestly that’s just something I’ve from developers who have talked about it. Multiple comments on this post about been about transferability of skills in Roblox when I’d hoped it was obvious the larger concern with Roblox is that they’re exploiting child labor and she is a child

    • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      WTF even uses LUA? In terms of game development, some really old games used it for modding support, but that's pretty much it.

      Language doesn't matter too much when getting started, at least once a minimum level of competency has been reached. But LUA specifically isn't very transferable compared to other languages.