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October 23, 2015
I really want to love Sploder, but I can't :(
As I said in the title, I really want to love sploder but I can't get there. The tool is far too buggy. For a while I found myself returning student projects with suggested changes in order to make the game more playable, less glitchy, etc. Finally I realized that my students couldn't really make the suggested modifications because the bugs / glitches they were encountering were truly a function of the tool itself. Ultimately I stopped offering this as one of the choices as I was more interested in having students learn the value of debugging errors in products where the errors could be fixed by student troubleshooting. Sploder looks beautiful. If they come to a point of resolving the issues stated I would gladly revisit it as an optional tool for my students.
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