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post-it 21 hours ago

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

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.

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.