gamebuilder VS enso

Google Gamebuilder what I really like to use to teach because it’s using JS. It was killed by Google (ofc) but still available and works perfectly https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder

Here is the original trailer https://youtu.be/l9Mf_XEZq-A

And some of the tutorial videos are also available https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuYHfxlxFzb25nWnevSN5wQVO...

If you are rich enough, you can buy tiktok and sunset it faster than Google killed Game builder

why no go to https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder and get it for free?

Unfortunately Google shelved it but they had a very similar project called Game Builder for Windows

Here is the original introduction video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hpFRztQGY

Got open sourced so you can still download it https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder

Works perfectly under Linux with Wine or Proton.

The last full Steam release is also included if you don't want to compile it (7z.001-7z.002-7z.003) https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder/tree/master/bui...

It's really fun and worth a try if you are looking for something similar not on Mac

> At least I have yet to see one that is actually useful in the sense of a generic (or even a single-purpose-built) language

Yeah as said, https://github.com/enso-org/enso seems to be a general purpose functional programming language with visual editor, but otherwise I haven't really seen any no-code solutions worth their salt. I'm not particularly a fan of enso either, but it's the best I've seen.

Although it's not quite the same, I do like what Enso[0] is bringing to the table, especially the 1:1 visual node/language interop. Whether this is generalisable to a fully decoupled interface remains to be seen, but there's definitely potential.

[0]: https://enso.org/

I think Enso is already taken by a YC company [0]. Could get confusing.

[0] https://enso.org

COMPANY: Enso Inc. TYPE: Full time LOCATION: Europe and United States of America – fully distributed company REMOTE: Only remote VISA: No VISA required DESCRIPTION: Hi, we are Enso (enso.org, Y Combinator S21)! We are looking for an amazing Cloud engineer to join our core team. We are a remote first company, working in Europe and the USA.

Friends of mine are developing Enso (https://enso.org/), an interactive programming language with dual visual and textual representations.

Even well before Bret Victor's time, there were tools for visual programming. I have been using LabView to maintain data processing in an optical laboratory.

> I'm convinced this entire space should be visual.

At my last 2 jobs I spent entirely too much time debugging Matillion jobs, which are visual. I have my doubts that it’s the panacea that it appears to be.

That said, you may find Enso particularly interesting: https://github.com/enso-org/enso