Trust me, I get it. Learning to code is scary and hard.

I’ve worked with coding languages for over a decade now and I can confidently say that they are all taught one way and one way only and if you happen to be someone to whom that way doesn’t work for you, like me, it’s a difficult journey. Which is why I understand the appeal of low-code/no-code (LCNC) game development solutions.

In theory, you can bypass the roadblock that is learning to code and just get straight into making the game of your dreams. Unfortunately, I don’t believe that this approach is as beneficial as it sounds.

In fact, I recommend against it and believe that the best path forward is to learn to code.

This isn’t because I prescribe to some elitist ideals that you’re not a game developer if you don’t code or that I think learning to code is easy (I still struggle with coding, despite a decade of experience).

It’s because I believe that learning to build an entire game, no matter how small, with a low-code/no-code solution is, at the end of the experience, equal or more amount of work, complexity, and problem solving. At the end of the experience, you and your game will be worse off for it.

The reason LCNC solutions in other parts of tech are so effective is because they augment a need for a solution at a single point in time.

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