gamebuilder

Google Game Builder what I really like to use to teach because it’s using JS. Not that I used it many times but it’s really engaging and at least you interact with a “real” language. It was killed by Google (ofc) but still available and works perfectly https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder The last full build (binary release) is here https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder/tree/master/bui... Here is the original trailer https://youtu.be/l9Mf_XEZq-A And some of the tutorial videos are also available https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuYHfxlxFzb25nWnevSN5wQVO...

Unfortunately Google shelved it but they had a very similar project called Game Builder for Windows Here is the original introduction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Mf_XEZq-A And a tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hpFRztQGY Got open sourced so you can still download it https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder Works perfectly under Linux with Wine or Proton. The last full Steam release is also included if you don't want to compile it (7z.001-7z.002-7z.003) https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder/tree/master/bui... It's really fun and worth a try if you are looking for something similar not on Mac

Ofc Google had a similar project (with Javascript) but they scrapped it back in November... It was even available on Steam https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder http://web.archive.org/web/20191017085801/http://store.steam... You can still download the last full build (easier than compiling on your own) and it's actually really fun https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder/tree/master/bui... I pretty much hate when they abandon things like that

The last full compiled version was also uploaded to Github https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder/tree/master/bui... It was really fun, if you didn't know the project imagine like a lite version of Minecraft with realtime JavaScript support https://www.blog.google/technology/area-120/create-3d-games-...