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** For those who want something even easier, there's the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031094112/http://www.ragsgame.com/Downloads.aspx RAGS suite], which is basically point and click!
** This is not a new idea either. There were at least two products released for the [[TRS-80]] Color Computer which allowed a user to specify vocabulary, rooms, items, and characters and then generated a BASIC program that implemented the game.
* [http://www.stencyl.com/ Stencyl] is a finished after years of waiting product that is sort of a Game Engine for Game Makers. It has some of the functionality of a Game Engine, but rather than making a game, you use it to make a "Kit". Kits define the basic behavior of the style of game, like [[Shoot 'Em UpsUp]]s or [[Platform Game]]s. Then, it becomes a Game Maker for that particular style of game.
* [[Older Than the NES]]: Quicksilva released a program called ''Games Designer'' for the ZX Spectrum in 1983. It was fairly rudimentary, and rubbish, and it could only make four different types of shoot-em-ups, meaning that it may well have inspired ''SEUCK'', but it was a designer and it did the job.
** Bill Budge's ''Pinball Construction Set'' came out for the Apple II in 1982, making it the probable [[Ur Example]].