Game development environments that leverage graphical interfaces and parameterized editors are interesting. They have the ability to lower the bar required to get a game up and running without making serious mistakes or getting lost in dead ends. Therefore they are a valuable tool in broadening the population of game developers.
However, there always remains the need for the capability to drop into the source code and edit the algorithms directly. Data structures and algorithms are what software is made of, and if our only interface into game creation is a parameterized editor where we can only configure values, then it will prevent breakthroughs just as much as it prevents failures and dead ends. This is why that no matter how many wizards, GUI tools, application builders, etc. that we have, we must always be able to go to the source and edit.
True progress is born from changing the paradigm, not changing the parameters.
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