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Helpful community

BYOND's community is relatively large and extremely helpful. Any question a beginner or an experienced user may have is quickly answered.

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Easy to use

The software itself is very easy to learn and use for beginners.

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In active development

BYOND is in active development and updates are released constantly.

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Large Community

Fairly large player base and multiple games to play.

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Highly supports multiplayer, but can make solo games ready for download.

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Exclusive programming language

The language is known as DM, and is modified using Dream Maker. It is an object oriented, interpreted language, which closely resembles C++, Java and PHP. More information available in the DM Guide.

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