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by NotAnOtter 385 days ago
Neat little thing. Feels like a great learning tool for kids, like a new age pygame.

Scratch and the others in that style always felt like it went one step too far. It's designed for 5 yearolds, and 5 yearolds don't need to be learning about code.

This is a good sweetspot for a ~10 year old. Reasonably simple string manipulation , a couple of syntax tricks to learn, and not much else. Just to get a basic side scroller with some NPC's. Then they can incorporate control flow when they are ready.

Consider releasing a class for kids on this tool & investing in the playground. You could get some real sales.

A different angle, you could do some basic procgen game assets with this tool.