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Game Design: Game Making Engines

Dang, two months and no posts? Well what can I blog about now? Well how about I write about various game makers eh? Thanks to the internet and programmers with energy for side-projects (or in some cases main projects) there are a plethora of game making programs for people who can't program but want to make a game anyway. Now there' s no way I could know or list them all but I'll make an effort to list what I do know, have used and like. Things Beginners Should Know You know that the favorite advertisement ploy for free engines is that "no programming is necessary". That's only HALF true or not really true at all. No programming is necessary but SCRIPTING is. And while some engines will provide you with shells to work within you still have to learn the script language to make things work. And heaven forbid you design a game that relies on the ADVANCED stuff. Not really a complaint but a heads up for any n00b who finds a programming-free engine and starts p