Create your own game with almost no coding
Game Builder is a free-to-use simulation software developed by Area 120. It lets you create games in a way that is interactive, easy to follow, and requires no coding skills. Through its various in-game activities, players are taught the basics of game development by conveying programming concepts into visual ideas.
Its gamified approach makes Game Builders a leader in an emerging genre of video games making programming and coding more accessible to the public. It is a beginner-friendly alternative to learning the coveted technical skill. Other alternatives include CodeMonkey or CodinGame, which actually resembles ROBLOX or Minecraft.
Developing in a colorful environment
As soon as you start running Game Builder, you are immediately greeted with a warm and friendly homescreen that gives you a glimpse of its colorful, voxel-based art style. It has coding-based language used throughout the game, introducing the technical field it’s intertwined with. You have New Project and Game Library modes in addition to Multiplayer, Credits, and Quit. It even features sample games to further help you manage expectations.
Should you start a New Project, you can see that you can switch between a Build and a Play mode. In Build, you get to select objects and program how they move, this includes controls and responses to certain in-game events. Now, each action or event in the available list comes with its own source code. This is programmed in a beginner-friendly manner with variables and comments always guiding you.
It offers easy game builders for RPGs, casual games, and even first-person shooters. You can also build games with friends, making it cooperative and more enjoyable, as well as add your own details like static background elements and lighting effects. Perhaps the only challenge in this game is its extended loading time for systems with lower specifications since it’s built with the Unity engine that can be resource-intensive at times.
Learning and enjoying on the next level
Its unique combination of voxel-based aesthetics and beginner-friendly in-game programs and subprograms make Game Builder one of the best options for people looking to learn to code, play a 3D game creator, or both. It introduces all necessary concepts in such a natural way, with most elements working together to create a conducive learning environment. It allows you to build from the basics to an actual, working video game.
