if you are talented, you can still make nice games with gamestudio, even with all its shortcomings. but nevertheless, there aren't many reasons to stick with it. the community is tiny now, other engines are more feature rich and multiplatform,... the future looks dim.

i agree about lite-c. it isn't that great. i would have prefered a clean c-api and one example binding for an existing scripting language. maybe google's V8 or something like that. it would have been much less work for jcl.

i am not sure what advantage lite-c has for zorro? i have haven't really looked into zorro in detail. if i were into this gambling business then i would rather try my luck as a bitcoin miner or something.