Getting kids (6-10) started witg programming and game dev (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago by somegeek@programming.dev to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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Hi. I want to get my little cousins into computers, and since they're kids, making games are really fun for them. I made a game with them with Love2D and they had a blast (I put their faces on the characters) but I think Love2d is a bit too hard for them.

My main motive for them is to make something and be creative. Programming is just a tool for that.
So something simpler with less code and mental load that let's them create stuff more simply is good.

What do you guys suggest?

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[-] mapto@feddit.bg 2 points 2 days ago

Wow, great! Didn't know Alice is still a thing. I've remember trying it out when I was a kid when it was little more than a syntax highlighting IDE (or at least that's how I remember it). I see with Alice 2 and Alice 3 it has leapfrogged. Still, scratch/squeak feel more accessible to small kids to me.

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I've talked pretty young kids to use alice. Scratch may have an advantage for extremely young ones, but 6-10 is a perfect age group for it.

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