No, swiftcoder is quite right, there is no valid reason for me to be sneering at node based languages. I'm just being unnecessarily snobbish.

There are good reasons node based programming has not caught on, but it's wrong of me to imply it isn't proper programming.

Lots of us here are as or more interested in the process than the end result. I can't personally imagine anything more mind numbing than linking nodes together like this to make a game. It is not something I would do for fun.

I also brew my own beer. Yes, I could go to the store and just buy it, and some of it is way better than mine, but that's not the point. It's fun. And when it works it's awesome that I did it myself. They sell beer kits, but those have everything done for you. If you go with just grains, water, hops, sugar and yeast, you can invent new beer no one has tasted before.

There is nothing wrong with either, but saying that one way is "better" just because it's "easier" isn't correct.

Yes, thank you, I have already acknowledged that.

My thought is if you finish and put out a game to the market at all written with any toolkit or in any language you'll be ahead of most people here who will quite readily admit to never finishing a game, due to feature creep, motivation, budget and more. To have created a game at all is an accomplishment.

Do you consider a pilot less of a pilot because they fly a fly-by-wire jet airliner not a bi-plane? Didn't think so :)

Yes, thank you, I have already acknowledged that.

Aardvajk, that was not directed at you. I was just waiting for rendering data to finish generating...

Aardvajk, that was not directed at you. I was just waiting for rendering data to finish generating...

Sorry, was having a very bad day yesterday.

Unless you build your physics engines from scratch (like j. carmack and me) you will never be a "real" developer. Only one of those point and click kiddos. The path of a jedi lies before you.

Perhaps there was a time though, where if you didn't program in binary, you weren't a real developer. I am currently learning binary, assembly, and C#, just for understanding.

Unless you build your physics engines from scratch (like j. carmack and me) you will never be a "real" developer. Only one of those point and click kiddos. The path of a jedi lies before you.

Pff, everyone knows real developers only use a magnetized needle and a steady hand!

Also, you must be the most humble person alive, comparing yourself to Carmack and all with your l33t gamemaker skills ;)

PS: It smells an awful lot like troll in here

Pff, everyone knows real developers only use a magnetized needle and a steady hand!

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