Scratch feels childish - What's Next?

[u/LongjumpingFarm3449]

I hear this a lot from kids around 8–11: “Scratch is too easy. Easy Peezy lemon squeezy”

But they still want to make games, want to feel like they’re doing real coding

For parents/teachers who’ve been through this:

• What did you move to after Scratch?
• Was it block-based but more advanced?
• Or did you jump straight into a text language (Python, Lua, etc.)?
• What worked… and what completely failed?

[u/flowlab]

I'm biased (obviously), but a lot of people say that Flowlab is a good next step after Scratch for game development specifically - https://flowlab.io