Designing a Game Engine for Beginners

Some reflections on how a game engine made for beginners should look.

Visual coding of a game in Scratch. A beginner friendly tool, but which is hard to advance coding skills with.

The desire to program games was what got me into programming in the first place. I have probably been programming for some 30 years at this point and having children on my own. Today this makes me reflect upon how to teach programming to the next generation.