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jiggunjer a day ago

Didn't they launch a remake of gw1 recently. Maybe I can get my kids hooked on that instead of this Roblox crap.

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pndy a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, they did relaunch it as Guild Wars Reforged with Steam Deck and controller support and other changes

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Guild_Wars_Reforged

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hobofan 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes they did, but the social bump that was there shortly after release has significantly calmed down already.

It did rekindle my love for the game, but most outposts are empty, even in the international districts, so I think it's hard to get hooked on it for new joiners.

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post-it 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For what it's worth, Roblox is how I discovered code at age 10.

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Cthulhu_ 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It was ZZT for me, no idea how old I was, probably 8-10 or so.

But when you take a bird's eye view, it's interesting and great to see how over the years, games where you can build your own games remain popular and a common entryway into software development.

But also how Epic went from ZZT via Unreal to Fortnite, with the latter now being another platform (or what Zucc wanted to call a metaverse) for creativity.

Other notable mentions off the top of my head where people can build or invent their own games (in-game, via an external editor or through community support) or go crazy in besides Roblox are Second Life (...I think), LittleBigPlanet, Warcraft/Starcraft (which led to the genre of MOBAs), Geometry Dash, Mario Maker, TES, Source engine games, Minecraft, etc etc.

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youarentrightjr 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How do you mean? Is there programming inside the game (ala Minecraft or Factorio)?

	▲	cortesoft 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Roblox is basically a developer platform for making games
	▲	LoganDark 21 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Roblox has a development environment for creating games (Roblox Studio) and the engine uses a fork of Lua as a scripting language. I also was introduced to programming through Roblox.