When I was a kid, I spent some time playing around with Klik &amp; Play. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Klik" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Klik</a><p>It was a lot of fun and I found it impressive how easily you could throw things together. It was a nice change of pace from learning C++, where I had not yet gotten into graphical libraries.<p>On a related note, I also experimented a bit with RPG Maker, which allowed for some simple scripting and made it very easy to quickly create environments using sprites. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RPG_Maker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;RPG_Maker</a>