GameMaker is how I started as a kid. I know it's drastically different from 15+ years ago but at the time I installed it on a PC at the day camp I volunteered a

GameMaker is how I started as a kid. I know it's drastically different from 15+ years ago but at the time I installed it on a PC at the day camp I volunteered at and all the kids there were making silly little games all the time with it. I make game engines from scratch for fun now, if that makes a difference. It all started with GameMaker. The second is Scratch, but IMO GameMaker is just as accessible and is closed to a Real game engine than scratch is.