Game Blocks - idea/prototype tool

[erico]

This looks worth investigating...

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/12/20/deus-ex-writer-creates-tool-for-teaching-development/
http://www.newlifeinteractive.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=40:cell&Itemid=60&layout=default

I have long looked for a similar tool, I hope this is as cool as it says, remembers me some multimedia tools on amiga...ye good powerpoints.

[mentalthink]

HI Erico nice tool, this it's for teaching... I think it's something similar to the Gamemaker or something like this...

Amiga, good times... hard drive for my 500?¿, nobody make a new invent...?¿ or I have use the floppy emulator or make myself the Ide controller...     

[erico]

nhééé I dumped my own amiga4000 rom (but I think I lost it) and also my HD, made a good img to keep it going

This app, so far, seems ok usable for fast prototypes/ideas check, specially if you draw and need to test things composed or maybe for knocking out a fast picture based + IF thing, otherwise, it feels a bit like those ancient computers with basic commands written on the keys...but with a mouse.

It feels it takes as much time to "code" your idea in it as it would on GLB, with the difference that on GLB it has potential to be tuned or finalized on an incremental way, specially if you already have a few good frameworks to speed up.

yeah... so probably better for teaching, as it carries some fundamentals and it is quite a visual app.
Will examinate better tomorrow.