Ask HN: 10 year old girl with creative stop motion art wants to program a game

Commercial with free versions: Game maker, Multimedia Fusion, Adventure Maker, Engine001.<p>Free: Tululoo Game maker (outputs to HTML5), Game Editor, Wintermute engine, Adventure Game Studio.<p>Programming languages: Browser Basic (Outputs to Html5), MonkeyX (desktop and HTML5, paid for other platform targets), BlitzBasic, BlitzMax, FreeBasic, QB64, Gideros mobile.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tululoo.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tululoo.com</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pewtersoftware.com&#x2F;browserbasic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pewtersoftware.com&#x2F;browserbasic&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fbide.freebasic.net&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fbide.freebasic.net&#x2F;download</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qb64.net" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qb64.net</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blitzbasic.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.blitzbasic.com</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monkey-x.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monkey-x.com</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;giderosmobile.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;giderosmobile.com</a><p>Other game creation resources:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ambrosine.com&#x2F;resource.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ambrosine.com&#x2F;resource.html</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freegameslist.weebly.com&#x2F;game-creation-tools.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;freegameslist.weebly.com&#x2F;game-creation-tools.html</a><p>A really good sprite editor:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;pixelaria&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;projects&#x2F;pixelaria&#x2F;</a>

Perhaps something web based like this? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ceilfire.com&#x2F;editor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ceilfire.com&#x2F;editor</a><p>At the end of the day she&#x27;s going to need to learn some basic programming, Scratch is the default recommendation but I like to recommend Ruby Warrior: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloc.io&#x2F;ruby-warrior#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloc.io&#x2F;ruby-warrior#&#x2F;</a> I think a 10 year old would get that.

Maybe <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scratch_(programming_language)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Scratch_(programming_language)</a>, although I&#x27;m not sure if there is a phone&#x2F;tablet version?

Something like rpgmaker maybe?: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rpgmakerweb.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rpgmakerweb.com&#x2F;</a>