excreationist
Married mouth-breather
I think the most well known visual scripting languages are Scratch and Blueprint.
Scratch is suitable for children from the ages of 8 or so. Here is an intermediate level example:
I like it a lot. I used it to make a prototype game for a university subject called "Playcentric Game Design".
Then there is Blueprint which is used in the Unreal game engine. Here is a "simple" example:
Blueprint allows very confusing structures:
More:
In the Unreal engine you've either got to use Blueprints or C++ (or both). For a university subject I was having trouble keeping up with the lecturer doing a Blueprint example. When you miss a step it can be hard to catch up (so I quit the subject).
Anyway I find Blueprint to be extremely overwhelming but find C sharp (in the Unity game engine) to be straight forward (though I avoid things like delegates and "scriptable objects"). It looks like it would be harder to debug Blueprint...
I also have aphantasia which means I can't picture anything in my mind. Maybe that somehow is responsible for my problems with Blueprint.
Scratch is suitable for children from the ages of 8 or so. Here is an intermediate level example:
I like it a lot. I used it to make a prototype game for a university subject called "Playcentric Game Design".
Then there is Blueprint which is used in the Unreal game engine. Here is a "simple" example:
Blueprint allows very confusing structures:
More:
UE4 Blueprints From Hell
blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com
In the Unreal engine you've either got to use Blueprints or C++ (or both). For a university subject I was having trouble keeping up with the lecturer doing a Blueprint example. When you miss a step it can be hard to catch up (so I quit the subject).
Anyway I find Blueprint to be extremely overwhelming but find C sharp (in the Unity game engine) to be straight forward (though I avoid things like delegates and "scriptable objects"). It looks like it would be harder to debug Blueprint...
I also have aphantasia which means I can't picture anything in my mind. Maybe that somehow is responsible for my problems with Blueprint.
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