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 Advantages:
+  * Low tech forces focus on the ideas - this is really important I think
   * Ease of running/viewing/playing
   * Use of commonly installed things - web browser/flash plugin, blah.
-  * Low tech forces focus on the ideas - this is really important I think
 Disadvantages:
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 Advantages:
-  * Prototyping in the same system you develop for saves time
+  * Prototyping in the same system you produce the game in saves time (arguably)
   * You can have access to the same features in the prototype as a final game
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   * Not working on windows
   * Difficult to install - big minus points
-  * Working on it...
+  * Works best for fast graphics prototyping at this point (rather than gameplay prototyping)
+  * Frisbee (functional reactive programming/animation in fluxus) might provide a much better, smaller, more creative way of writing games, but it's unproven (to me) and highly experimental at this point.
+PyGame -> http://www.pygame.org/news.html
+Mainly sprite based examples, there are some 3D games, but most seem to involve calling opengl commands wrapped in scheme, rather than a complete entity model (I might be wrong these days tho)
+== Old School ==
+Blitz Basic -> http://www.blitzbasic.com/ who make Blitz3D -> http://www.blitzbasic.com/Products/blitz3d.php
+Lots of games written in this, very popular in the indy game dev scene.
+== Costly ==
+Virtools -> http://www.virtools.com/
+Does online, visually programmed, and looks very suitable - just also kinda expensive.
+Unity -> http://unity3d.com/
+Panda3d -> http://panda3d.org/