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What software should I use for game development?

Hi! I'm Ms. Eldridge at the International Community School. My 5th graders have a few questions and I'd like to share your advice with them. Thanks in advance!

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Joe’s Answer

I recommend staying with simple tools to get started in order to create a basic prototype of your idea. A couple of tools are:

Scratch - https://scratch.mit.edu
GameSalad - https://gamesalad.com

Once you have created the prototype and get feedback for your idea, then you can looks at more advanced game platforms to build your game. These platforms will allow you to create games that look more professional and will run across many types of devices. The top two I recommend are:

Unity: https://unity.com
UnReal: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/

With these tools there are tutorials, videos and example games to help you get started in creating a fun game to play. The software you choose should reflect the devices that you are building the game for. Also I definitely recommend redesigning an existing demo game in order to allow you to learn from a game you can actually play.

Joe recommends the following next steps:

Start with a prototype on a simple gaming tool
Show you idea to friends and family
Revise the idea based on their feedback
Choose one of the top game develop software tools that deploy to the devices you want the game to be played on
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Jetangeline’s Answer

Hi Ms. Eldridge,

There are several online institutions that can help you with this:
https://codecombat.com/
https://www.codemonkey.com/
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