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Discussion on: Roblox, good or bad for the world of game development?

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Ben Halpern

I'm not so hot on the addictive nature of the game itself, but I'm super excited that it's gotten my niece into software development! She genuinely is so excited to be learning to code so she can interact with the game.

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Theo

I'm not so hot on the addictive nature of the game itself

Agreed, It's very good at drawing kids into its ecosystem and getting them hooked. Which isn't a great thing in it's self and then you have Robux...

but I'm super excited that it's gotten my niece into software development!

Nice, I too got into Software Development (Back-End) then on to Game Developing due to roblox,
It's what sparked my interest in coding, that and Scratch.
As well as my father being a Software developer, so I could always go to him if I had any issues with my code (and still do occasionally to this day.)

She genuinely is so excited to be learning to code so she can interact with the game.

Mad probs to her, I wish her all the best on her Development journey.
May she live long and prosper - (Star trek). πŸ˜‚πŸ‘

p.s Is that a Mac? Eeeewwwww. (jk..kinda πŸ˜πŸ˜‚)

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Ben Halpern

p.s Is that a Mac? Eeeewwwww. (jk..kinda πŸ˜πŸ˜‚)

It's my machine, she actually doesn't have a proper development computer herself so I'm going to get her one, but it won't be a Mac because she doesn't need to be spending all that extra money on a computer πŸ˜„