Remember the good ol’ days? When programming was so easy to get your hands onto that the average 5 year old could learn to program? What ever happened to that?
Now it seems every tool kit out there is designed to add more features and require over 100 lines of template or overhead code just to write a simple Hello World.
Well, I thought up a way to bring back the good ol’ days.

Introducing Retrocard.

Familiar toolboxes are designed to make Retrocard very approachable.

Retrocard is a computer constructor set for the web, designed to gently introduce newbies to programming in a creative and social environment.

Anyone with an internet connection and Adobe Flash can quickly create their own ‘cards’. Think of a card like a paint program with buttons and labels. With buttons you can make your card do a plethora of interesting different things from linking to a friends card to playing a musical tune you wrote. All of this with an approachable zero programming overhead. No templates. As for Hello world? Just double click on a button, click ‘edit script’, and write ‘ Say “Hello World” ‘

Making and sharing your own adventure game is quite a snap with Retrocard.

Will Retrocard be ready for Ludum Dare on Dec 14th? Well, I intend to have a beta release ready by Wedneday the 12th. Will that be good enough for Ludum Dare? Maybe. You will be welcome to try!

Look forward to an update on Wedneday the 12th

Thanks

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