Best Visual Scripting Game Engines! *For people that hate to code!*

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[Goodgis]

For a full list of Visual Scripting game engines, make sure to check out the video description!

[theothercd]

as a somewhat advanced scratcher i can say three things:
1: it's quite easy to make a good game if you have enough patience and know the right tools
2: you can make custom blocks and define their functions, it's really useful for making projects more compact
3: there's a plugin called scratch addons, it adds a pause button, onion skinning for animation, and even dark mode!
i hope this is useful for somebody :D

[JuhoSprite]

Imagine making a game from scratch, in scratch

[Pyoron]

I remember playing with RPG Maker back in the day and making a thousand projects I'd never finish, it was so fun and I lost so much time just making up stories and fiddling around with the engine's tools.

The era of RPG Maker horror games was golden, and I miss the big YT channels playing Ib or The witch's house, so nostalgic...

[breakfastboii]

The whole reason why I do game development is because of scratch. I used to spend hours making games on there.

Also nice there’s an upload on my birthday

[phom]

I'm glad some attention is going to scratch. I started using 1.0 when I was only 7 years old and I taught me a lot of fundamental things about coding

[MossFinder]

Before watching this, I coded on scratch for 5 years before I finally felt confident enough to move on and found a language I could switch to more easily.

[miloverreijt]

I remember when I decided to switch to Unity from scratch 3 years ago, I still get nostalgic from looking at scratch ;-;

[loathfluctuation]

GB studio is a great one for making Gameboy style of games I absolutely loved it like if you use stuff like emulators which I do quite often its a great choice

[gabe]

I started with scratch, it has made me a very good dev I recommend it for absolute beginners

[ModBros]

I find Scratch to be absolutely genius. It does a great job of lowering the barrier to entry, making it possible for anyone to code. The good people at LLK are doing a service to everyone who frequently uses computers

[KevinFrost]

As someone that has used RPG Maker engines for like 15 years, I feel it should have had a place somewhere 🤷‍♂ They come prepackaged with lots of assets to be used right out of the box, and so long as you're using a version no later than XP, you can also use code to enhance the visual scripting. RPG Maker MV (the one I currently use) has a great community with thousands of free plugins to make the engine better and can give beginners a great stepping stone to start learning JavaScript while still using visual scripting.

[WAAB]

Ive been doing scratch for almost 3 years, its been a lot of fun but i’m thinking of switching to unity. Scratch actually isn’t as limiting as some people may think. You can still achieve a lot with scratch.

[danecollins]

Scratch is one of if not THE BEST when it comes to beginner's visual scripting. It's extremely easy to learn, and pretty flexible for such a simple program. Definitely would reccomend! P.S. It feels satisfying to snap the blocks together 😃

[lorgarmor]

From my experience visual scripting is only useful as a learning tool. It is easier to understand because you dont have to learn a language syntax. But in the end it is not about knowing a language. It is about the way you think and solve programmatic problems. Once you understand how to tackle certain challenges by placing the right nodes and connecting them in the right way, you also understand which lines of code you would have to write. Remembering the names of nodes is just like remembering the names of functions.
Especially languages like python (or GDScript in this context) can somewhat be read like plain text. In contrast to that, visual scripting becomes almost completely unreadable and complicated as soon as the program becomes more and more complex.

So visual scripting is great for starting to learn how to program. But the transition to coding should be the goal from the beginning, as you are doing yourself more harm than good in the long run if you avoid it.

[purplemosasaurus]

I am a beginner to game dev, I never made any game ever, I got inspired by you to make a game, and I used Godot because you used it.
Godot is very hard to learn with very few tutorials. Godot melted my brain because i was a beginner and it was really hard to learn. but this video helped me, I've downloaded Game Maker and I'm trying to make my first game.

[ShiftClickLearn]

I love that you put Scratch in this video!

[Anonzs]

I am honestly miffed that you mentioned Godot in a Visual Scripting video. Godot's VS is just not noteworthy enough, I feel like it's bare bones, to mention it. Other than that I love Godot. Though I understand you wanted to transition to Game Engines where you should learn coding section.

Love the video and the idea of starting with visual scripting to get into making games.

[alexguy]

You aren’t going to stop me from making a 3D open world mmo rpg in scratch

[TimConceivable]

6:40 correction: the GameMaker 2 TRIAL is now free, BUT if you want to build your game for any platform you have to buy a license which is definitely not free and they've moved to a subsciption model instead of one-time purchase. so... yeah, pricing kind of sucks for it now.