the dismal art

[Raoul Duke]

software development tools for making video games.

so utterly full of fail. 

i say that with some concrete experience under by belt, i've been a game server dev & i have done indie game dev for a while. (flash, java, godot, haxe, js/ts, unreal/blueprints, unity/c#.)

i wish i had the brains and money to make something that was Less Wrong, i do have my laundry list of how i envision it could be. (go go bret victor style powers.)

but frankly it all suffers from the fact that everything other than the web is a horribly walled garden; any kind of app that wants to be portable is a nightmare that is never really very well solved (eg react-native).