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I just played the alpha I downloaded from their website and it was great, has the player crafting actual code. Not sure what happened between that version and w

I just played the alpha I downloaded from their website and it was great, has the player crafting actual code. Not sure what happened between that version and what they have now. I realise they're trying to lower the barrier-to-entry with the blocks and whatnot but I'd expect that if I bought my kid a game called CodeSpells they'd be writing code, so I'm not sure barrier-to-entry is really much of an issue in this case. I wish they'd have kept at their original concept.

codespells 12y ago
Actually, players WILL be able to choose between typing in actual code or using Blockly! Sorry, it's not clear in that video, but we did want to show that this is a low-barrier entry into coding. If students want to code more complicated spells than in the alpha version, typed code will be difficult. Through our research, we've found students are able to make incredibly complex code using Blockly though. We think students will be able to learn with Blockly until they become comfortable typing with all the syntax.