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What game engine is the best for my laptop? and good for a total beginner? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 days ago by Grumpy404@lemmy.zip to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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Not sure if this goes her because im new to lemmy, but i have a snapdragon plus laptop, 16 ram, no gpu, i got this laptop recently when it was on sale for portability and because chromebooks are bad.

I want to get into gamedev and explore both 2d and 3d but im unsure what to try with my laptop as a newcomer not knowing much?

What would you suggest and why so? i need the simplest of the simple.

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[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Things such as? I went searching and only found the drama, that they're trying to make their own engine, and that somebody made a fork of Redot as well.

If they don't like Godot (and if add-ons etc don't help) a fork probably won't address that. I'd sooner believe some web engine (less setup, perhaps easier systems) or framework (if they don't mind lacking an editor, also easier to work with bindings) might be a better direction at least for starting out.

Some options might also make sense if they're interested in a particular language, or even a particular type of game.

some options off the top of my head (minus some that were already mentioned)

GDevelop (web+flowgraph) recently added 3D

Pygame (Python)

p5.js, Tic-80 (javascript)

Wick Editor (also JS, but also more of an animation thing / Flash-like)

WASM-5 (many bindings)

LibGDX (Java)

Luanti (LUA, block-based games)

Also there's Gamefromscratch who has covered many options like this, including a per-language YT playlist.