Ask HN: 10 year old girl with creative stop motion art wants to program a game
Any people with experience here - what would be the easiest way for her to start?
Any people with experience here - what would be the easiest way for her to start?
Free: Tululoo Game maker (outputs to HTML5), Game Editor, Wintermute engine, Adventure Game Studio.
Programming languages: Browser Basic (Outputs to Html5), MonkeyX (desktop and HTML5, paid for other platform targets), BlitzBasic, BlitzMax, FreeBasic, QB64, Gideros mobile.
http://pewtersoftware.com/browserbasic/
http://fbide.freebasic.net/download
Other game creation resources:
http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html
http://freegameslist.weebly.com/game-creation-tools.html
A really good sprite editor:
At the end of the day she's going to need to learn some basic programming, Scratch is the default recommendation but I like to recommend Ruby Warrior: https://www.bloc.io/ruby-warrior#/ I think a 10 year old would get that.