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What are the most simple free engines and tools for a beginner? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 22 hours ago by Grumpy404@lemmy.zip to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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I belive i would like to try making games but my laptop isint that powerful. Its a thinkpad from like 10 years ago, i upgraded it to a 250gb ssd, and 16gb of low voltage ddr3, i also put linux on it to screeze out as much as possible. So i need something that will run but im struggling on choosing expecially sense i want to start for free. I want to start with something dead simple and work my way up.

What would you suggest and why so?

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[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Probably not what you are looking for, but I think a great place to start is Pico-8, there is an education version, but it only costs $15 to start making games in Lua with the real version on your machine. Although it's very limited (think like Game Boy color games) you will learn a lot of the basics, there's 1000's of games you can look at the code of, and a good community and learning resources.

It's a quick easy way to get started in game creation, and if you're new to programming it will be a while before you run out of challenges.

Like a number of commenters have said, it depends on what type of games you want to make - Pico-8 is limited, deliberately.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

That's very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Certainly it's not something I will ever use but it's neat to know it exists.