If you want to know how to start making a simple game, the fastest route is a finished one: pick a free engine, write the idea in a single sentence, and build one complete loop of coloured rectangles before you touch real art. Most beginners can have something playable in 10 to 30 focused hours. … Read more
Yes, you can learn game design without coding, and the way most people learn it is by taking a game apart, rebuilding one small piece on paper, and watching another person try to play it. Programming is one way to implement a design decision, not the act of making the decision. If that sounds like … Read more
A mod gets taken down for a short list of legal and policy reasons: a copyright complaint, a breach of the platform’s Terms of Service, malicious code, cheating behaviour in online play, or a direct request from the game’s creator or publisher. Sometimes nothing was wrong with the mod at all — the author pulled … Read more