TIC-80

I'd suggest TIC-80 [1] as an intermediate step from Snap! to larger IDEs. TIC-80 documentation [2] is a little thin, but overall it's a very pragmatic integrated development environment that combines sound, sprite, map and code-editor into one very simple IDE environment (no debugger, though, only rudimentary logging). You have a choice between multiple script languages (Lua, Javascript and more). The run-time library [3] only has a handful of simple functions but is feature-complete nonetheless (plus there is some address-based peek/poke API to do more advanced, low-level stuff). I'd imagine learning javascript programming by starting game-development in TIC-80 to be much more straight-forward than attempting to wrestle with the complexities of HTML5+CSS+javascript+tooling for in-browser programming. [1] https://tic80.com/ [2] https://

As you can see here: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/releases/tag/v0.80.1344

Tic-80 is one of the most successful pico-8 inspired fantasy consoles (I don't think it's fair to call it a "clone" since it has diverged quite a bit at this stage). Perhaps more relevant it just released the beta for v0.80 with some sweet new features[0]. That also highlights that it's open source, which had lead to some nice community additions like the recent 3DS port[1] [0] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/tree/master/build/n3ds [1] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/releases/tag/v0.80-beta