Hello everyone,
I’m a newbie on Modd io and I am super excited about the prospect of creating my own multiplayer game. I’ve played some of the user-generated games here and I thought they were very creative and lots of fun. I am now wanting to create one myself, but I don’t know how to start. Should I pick a template or learn the basics of the map editor?
I started a golang course for back-end development, so I would like to know - could any of that knowledge help here? Or is Modd io more visual/event-driven in terms of scripting?
Are there any tutorials or any beginner-friendly tools someone in the community recommends for learning game logic, setting up AI behavior, or publishing a game for the community to feedback on?
Any advice would be great as I’d love to hear wisdom especially from those that started with no coding experience. Thank you so much in advance! I hope to produce something other people enjoy playing too.
I look forward to learning from all of you! 
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I believe there are multiple videos on YouTube by m0dE showing the beginning steps.
I personally am not really good at making games on here so I can’t give you many tips of my own but try asking the discord server. More people are active there and more actual game developers.
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In short, modd.io is not a place to make a full-fledged game as you expect. So, you should probably find another game engine if you think of making a complex game. You can make really simple game in days here easily though.
However, I will answer to your question one by one.
Golang course will not be helpful on this platform. Instead, you could learn Javascript because modd.io relies on Javascript in its underlying part. Modd.io coding is similar to that in Scratch because it uses block-styled coding. Actually, you don’t even want to learn about coding in the first place. If you want to know the basic notions about modd.io (v2.9.16), you can refer to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0PYuJ07TLw&list=PLQ338FBguJ9e9TdvnAYd8Di_by35LvjMo)
There are indeed tutorials, but due to very rapid development and no documentation, they may not be helpful. It’ll be better to ask help for paid staff or admin on discord.
And there is two version of modd.io, v2.x.x and v3.x.x.
If you want to make a 3D game, you should use v3.x.x, but it has no documentation and nobody is making a game seriously there. So, currently you should use v2.x.x to make 2D games. You might get some degree of help in discord, even though now 2D engines are abandoned due to recent direction changes in modd.io. Modd.io is not still open to public for making a decent 3D games. Dedicated paid engineers are spending their all efforts developing the 3D version, so you should wait another few months at least to get enough documentation, or you must actively ask help directly from the developers.
Also, if you want to make a simple game that has an integration with a memecoin on Solana Blockchain, this will be a very good place, as it is the very thing the developers are working on right now. Even in this case, you need to contact the devs on discord or Telegram directly I think. However, you need to be very careful about cryptocurrency.
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