Is Game editor

[trippola77]

Is game editor too easy. Like with all these programs and all that junk out there isn't this the easy way to go.
Because im 13 and i started game editor when i was 12 and ive learned half of all this c++ programming stuff in just 6 months.
So is it?

[pyrometal]

GE is a tool for making games, so it is much easier than coding from scratch in any programming language out there. You still need to know what you're doing to be good at it, like anything else really, and it is also a much better choice than some other game creation tools out there if your starting out. Don't hesitate to ask questions on the forum if you have any, just remember to search your answers first by using the search bar at the top right corner of the webpage, since there is a good chance the question might have been answered before. Good luck!

[catacomber]

I see people here doing some really complex things with GE--it's a tool like any other--you get out of it what you put into it.

If you use it intensively with C script---I think it's not easy at all. It's very challenging. And it works. : )

It delivers results which is all you can ask of any game engine.

I've been comparing and contrasting a lot of game engines (because curiosity has always been a failing of cats) and there are pluses and minuses to all of them. With many of them you have to learn some off the wall script created by the author of the game engine. Not so with GE. It uses C script which is the fastest and most efficient for gamemaking, imho. : )

If you wrote your own game engine in whatever coding language you chose , it would have its own pluses and minuses and would probably take you a lot of time you could better use in making a game in GE. (Like Bee-Ant's Winter Blast game in the Game Development thread.) : )

So my suggestion is---until you have made an uber game in ge--don't move go elsewhere. : )

[DST]

Well said, guys. There isn't any easy way to make a game. If a program boasts supersimple game making, then they're lying. But when GE claims you can make games with no programming experience, its telling the truth. You can make a game with no experience. Just not a very complex game.

Its true of any program.

My favorite explanation of a program ever was a synthesizing program which said this:

If you suck, you'll still suck. But with our software, you'll suck better, faster, and slicker than ever before!

Aside from this, I would say that GE is an excellent program not only for making games, but even more for LEARNING to make games. Filling in spaces in menus is not learning to program. That's one reason i like GE so much.....You use that script editor, and you learn to program what you want! And eventually you realize....anything is possible!

[catacomber]

Was going to add that you should look at DST and Mojodomo's Music Box and Pyrometal's Spirographs and then ask them if they thought it was "easy" to make them in GE. They're really nice programs. I doubt they could have made them any better if they had made their own game engine to make them---or used any of the hundred thousand out there that would not produce such a nice result. : )