Castle - Make and Play 12+

It’s so good supper and easy I have only had this game for like five days but I already understand how too do stuff

I have been using Castle for only about a few months now and it’s really fun and a great idea to be able to create your own small games but there a bunch of problems that i wish could be changed. While the programming is straightforward and simple to understand, you can make pretty “real” GAMES if it was expanded upon with more options and less tedious, because oh my god, if you’ve spent a while on a making a deck with a lot of code, changing and adding code is the WORST and takes FOREVER. I do get that one is supposed to make something small with these “decks” and it’s not always supposed to be used for games! Sometimes it’s simply just a text saying “i changed my oc!” Or “i am taking a bit of a break!” I think here should be a difference between actual games and experiences, and community and posts and such. I think the idea of exploring real experiences and easy to create your own is great, but i think the swiping mechanic is the worst way to represent decks and basically TELLS the user to create small, unoriginal, boring remixes and react beggars just for the likes. I think the swiping mechanic or the “Home” page should be removed completely and instead have a better way of exploring decks, there should be a distance between games, small little experiments, posts, and news/updates. It’s pretty much impossible to make a hard worked on game get attention because it has a menu screen and 6 seconds is over the user attention span so they will swipe away immediately. And the app itself is in portrait mode which is obviously trying to get the tiktok users to swipe away on decks instead. And making games in portrait is quite awkward and cramped, i don’t see why a landscape mode wouldn’t work with actual games. I heard a lot of people talking about switching over to “Julian’s Editor” because of Castle’s community. I got a tiny peek at it and it does everything i think Castle should have been, except for the multiplayer kind of roblox style of games, and i think the editor in Castle is much better still though, it shows actual games people have worked on that you can actually put your time into playing, and stuff like community posts and stuff The way of finding decks sucks even more because once you’ve already viewed a deck and try to search for it later it’s gone because you’ve already seen it. The “Reacted” or “Recently Played” lists in the explore tab doesn’t help much as they only list like 10. This also makes it impossible to update or make a demo/beta or alpha for your game without nobody playing it because it’s not there for them. I extremely love the how simplistic the editor is to make games, but then again clicking boxes every 5 seconds is extremely annoying and tedious and gets even more frustrating if you accidentally pick the wrong one, and it’s in such a long list you just have to remember where certain boxes are from memory. There are a BUNCH of thing i would like to add to the editor, but i’ll only name a few. The ability to see what the code is doing while playing the game for example like showing or highlighting when it did that or that to make it easier to see if something wrong. Also the ability to turn off and on rules while testing would be great too, and WHY is the delete button right behind the “Done” button, while it might not be such a punishment with the undo ability, i’ve deleted rules countless times on accident because i press it twice because of how slow inputs get making long projects. The music and sounds would be greatly appreciated if it were improved. There should be a difference between playing music from files on your device and sounds from your device. And it doesn’t help when there’s only a box for eliminating ALL sound completely. And also a limit where you can only have 30 seconds of sounds so you have to chain parts of the song together. I’ve wrote way too much already so here kind of a summary: Expand the emphasis on making real experiences, games and community posts without crappy, like begging, unoriginal remixes to overflow the app because of the swiping mechanic that limited how big users can create stuff cuz nobody is gonna play it. Expand the editor with quality of life changes and make it a bit more complicated for more options and possibilities! I still love the app, it’s great if you want to start making small games, communities and fans! Just needs a lot of changes to not be another tiktok app lol.

Super good like the game keep it going!!!