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+Title: Ideal games and game development tools
+Date: 2018-11-19 00:00
+Category: News
+Slug: ideal-gamedev
+Lang: en
+
+![Screenshot][screenshot]
+
+In this article, we discuss how ideal video game and video game development
+tool look like, in our opinion.
+
+**Questions**
+
+As you know, the [goals of Opensource Game Studio][ogs-goals] are:
+
+* creation of free video game development tools
+* making video games with those tools
+* preparing video game development tutorials
+
+This time we asked ourselves two simple questions:
+
+* What is an ideal video game?
+* What is an ideal video game development tool?
+
+The best answers we could think of are below.
+
+**Answer 1: A video game is ideal if it delivers maximum pleasure possible**
+
+While content is probably the most important aspect to keep a player invested
+into the game, the technical side is the transport to deliver that content.
+There are quite a few technical problems that may damage otherwise excellent content of a game:
+
+* insufficient accessibility: the game does not run on your hardware
+* insufficient optimization: the game is slow
+* critical bugs: the game crashes from time to time
+
+We work hard to make sure the games we create are accessible everywhere.
+That's why we released
+[the second demonstration of OGS Mahjong 2][mahjong-demo2] only for
+the web: because you can run web version virtually anywhere.
+
+**Answer 2: A video game development tool is ideal if it lets you create a video game of your dream in the shortest time possible**
+
+Even though we put a lot of effort into sharing our knowledge through
+[guides][osgcpg] and [tutorials][osgcpe], we understand that those take a lot
+of time to study. One can't possibly make even a simple video game like
+[Memory][concentration] without performing the following steps:
+
+* configure the development environment
+* write code
+* build an application
+* debug the application
+* repeat `write-build-debug` steps as many times as necessary
+
+Writing code and debugging are probably the ultimate forms of input and output
+of any software, so we can't escape those. However, there are ways to
+completely remove (or at least significantly decrease) the need for
+`development environment setup` and `build` steps. And this is what we are
+going to do in the coming months.
+
+Our goal for the coming months is to create a video game development tool that
+would allow any programmer (or sufficiently skilled person) to create the
+[Memory][concentration] video game from scratch in an hour.
+
+That's it for discussing how ideal video game and video game development tool
+look like, in our opinion.
+
+
+[screenshot]: {attach}/images/2018-11-19-ideal-gamedev.png
+
+[ogs-goals]: {filename}/pages/about.md
+[mahjong-demo2]: {filename}/articles/2018-10-02-mahjong-demo2.md
+[osgcpg]: https://github.com/OGStudio/openscenegraph-cross-platform-guide
+[osgcpe]: https://github.com/OGStudio/openscenegraph-cross-platform-examples
+[concentration]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_(game)