I hope making a game never gets easier. I think it is so many people's path to programming. When I was 11 or 12 I was intent on making my own games. I really had no idea how to do any of it. So I went searching for an easy tool(was hoping for a gui of some kind) I stumbled on RPG maker which was ported by some Russian guy. Then I found this product called the GCS (Game creation system) by pie in the sky software. Both of these tools made games, but not the games I had in my imagination. So I decided I needed to learn how to program so I can make my own engine, and make those games in my mind. Little did I know the path I had just embarked on. Along the way I learned C++, win32, Direct X 7, and more. My interest in programming games soon waned, but what was left was a skill, and a lifelong interest. Had there been a GUI that allowed me to create the games that were inside my imagination, It probably would have been just another one of my fleeting obsessions that got lost along the way.
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