Good article, i liked to read it.
Game maker softwares are good and bad.
Good: They give everyone possibility to try game making with out studying years and hundreds of sleepless nights how to program and how to make it all as runnable and playable program.
Bad: Peoples with out patience to even learn these easy game maker softwares gets excited with them. They see how you can make rolling circle with only five mouse clicks and after that, they are goin to do next Zelda.
Good II: Peoples with motivation and patience learns to use game maker software. When they reach limits of them, they move on to some programming language, learn it and do program good games. It is a good road from noob to advanced programmer.
Bad II: When they notice, next Zelda cant be made even with game maker software in five days, they start whine on forums, asking experienced peoples to give them a code…leads for frustrating, flames, trolls and so on.
It is good that there are game maker programs, but even them, should not be too easy. That only leads to poor games made by peoples who should not make games. And the end, game maker softwares never gets credits they deserve.
E.K.Virtanen
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