I don't know BASIC, but I would say Processing is very accessible. They tought it in my Middle School and I would say making games is trivially easy with it, ev

I don't know BASIC, but I would say Processing is very accessible. They tought it in my Middle School and I would say making games is trivially easy with it, even if it is more designed for animations than interactivity. I would argue the problem is, back then, as a kid, you most probably had access to only one machine, and one PL. Now too many choices can make learning unfocused