free,offline game making software?

[Fifaguy360]

walsufnir said:

Fifaguy360 said:

Zkuq said:
I'm currently studying IT and hope to learn how to make my own games from scratch eventually. That is, code them myself. For that, even Notepad suffices, although you might want something fancier depending on your choice of programming language.

Notepad?? Maybe if you're making a web game. All coding is normally done in an IDE.

What? Not necessarily. I know a lot of *very* skilled coders who write their code in vi and put it automatically in tools like VS to make it build or debug but the writing itself can be dony in any editor (with syntax highlighting, that is, of course).

Help me understand. Why would you write in vi then import to VS to build in debug rather than write in the editor in the IDE and build and debug?

You're right it can be done in any editor, but it's a matter of efficiency.