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Summary

Game Editor has fast actor creation and destruction times and built-in collision detection, but the limited scripting language and GUI-dependent script editing were inconvenient. It's cool that Game Editor can make games for iOS and Android, but it's not too important for prototyping. I'd rather have a standard, widely-used scripting language.

Pluses

• Draws the minigame quickly with low CPU use
• Built-in play-along tutorials
• Actively developed (Minuses might be outdated)

Minuses

• Has its own C-flavored scripting language that uses C data types, malloc(), and free()
• Idiosyncratic and limited object-oriented programming features
• Avoiding the built-in text editor is possible, but clumsy.
• GUI gets in the way in some places:
  • Map editor is very simple
  • No numeric control of actor size
  • Only a few keyboard shortcuts
• Not possible to rename actors or switch their type (normal, wire frame, filled region, canvas) after creation. Clumsy to do refactoring.

Hints

• The hyperlink navigation for the online docs is awkward. It's easier to ignore the hyperlinks and use the local filesystem to look through the Docs/*.htm files that come with the engine.
• In Global Code click on Choose to select a page of Global Code. Otherwise the Global Code editor window will be blank.

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