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Yeah it's child labor but at the same time it's kids writing their own games and sharing it with their friends. It's the same as a kids youtube channel where they build Lego to show off for their friends- which Google and Lego profit from.
Or the same as flash games from the early 2000s.
Flash games didn't have a megacorp in the middle taking a cut on microtransactions. That's a big difference.
Not from lack of trying. I think it might have happened if flash player hadn't died