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by lazycog512 636 days ago
this.

the tradeoff is with something like godot you only have examples/tutorials and hardly ever something "finished" or "very fun" or "thing people are playing".

something like roblox or another modding-focused game allows you to see what other people did as inspiration or to show what other people are actually interested in, as opposed to just making things for yourself.

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I've massively limited use of scratch in my house because of the "social" aspect. instead of being creative and learning about programming they spent most of their time looking at recommended "programs" by others which mostly consisted of meme videos, annoying sounds, gen alpha slang etc. I never saw much programming "inspiration", at times it almost seemed like allowing them to use tiktok. did anyone else have this experience?
Yeah, that is why currently, we are mostly a minecraft house. It seems the meme-mods are not as common.