Recently, an engine called CopperCube released v6 and made their base engine/editor free. It boasts ease of use, specifically aimed at non-programmers. The engine itself is incredibly dated. However, I have to say that the creator of CopperCube has an interesting approach to allowing non-programmers to do quite a lot. Without programming, I was able to create doors, for example, that opened on proximity, opened via a pressure plate, opened with a switch/button, could be manually opened/closed, and a lot more. It was fun sort of stringing things together via it's logic system. It could be a bit frustrating, too. But I saw that I could create a decent game without a single line of code.
Now, while I do want to learn to code in LUA so I can develop in Leadwerks, I do like the idea presented in CopperCube. My "dream" would be for something like what CopperCube has, but integrated into Leadwerks. However, instead of doing things the CopperCube way (check it out to see what I am talking about, if you are interested), which can be visually difficult at times, I would love it if Leadwerks' Flow Graph was more developed so that it could become more of a non-programmer's paradise, so to speak.
I'm from the CopperCube6 community and currently making a game in it. I can say that to make something decent you really better off using code (javascript in this case) than no coding menu items. The menu item order cant be edited once created nor delete or add new things in between menu selections so very, very limited in making changes along the way - you have to re-enter them all each time if you want to make changes which is crazy.
Also using code can allow you to do a tonne more things never imagined in only using drop down menus only.
In summary, no coding in CopperCube6 can be used but is really only suited to basic games and demos - nothing really serious, I know as I started off thinking the no coding way and found it impracticable and now code almost everything in javascript only.
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I'm from the CopperCube6 community and currently making a game in it. I can say that to make something decent you really better off using code (javascript in this case) than no coding menu items. The menu item order cant be edited once created nor delete or add new things in between menu selections so very, very limited in making changes along the way - you have to re-enter them all each time if you want to make changes which is crazy.
Also using code can allow you to do a tonne more things never imagined in only using drop down menus only.
In summary, no coding in CopperCube6 can be used but is really only suited to basic games and demos - nothing really serious, I know as I started off thinking the no coding way and found it impracticable and now code almost everything in javascript only.