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Comment by Charon77 | Hacker News Reader

As much as I hate to say it, Roblox Studio is the way, especially seeing it has to be 3D.

It's pretty low barrier to entry thing

The YouTube channel "People Make Games" has a couple of reports that I'd suggest parents consider watching first before going down that road:

* "Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

* "Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

That assumes the kid is going to become some major Roblox game developer. If they just want to do it for fun and learning I don’t see the issue.

The kid with the burned out stare in the first video hits so hard.

My daughter figured out how to do something in Roblox on her own (i.e. without my help) when she was 10 y.o. or something like that. So yes, the barrier is pretty much non-existent.

And it's possible to make pretty decent games with it. Like I saw FNAF on Roblox recently. If somebody told me it's a standalone game made by professionals in Unreal engine, I would have believed. It looks good.

Yeah, a mod for Roblox, Garry's Mod, or Minecraft is the safest bet. Maybe there's another game I forgot

Garry's Mod + Wiremod is really easy to get into if you use Basic Gates or even Expressions, Its how I learned to program when I was 12 (back in Gmod 9)

Wiremod was too advanced for me lol. I went straight into Lua scripting making 5 second SWeps

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