Ask HN: Favorite Game Engine?

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LÖVR

I haven't used many engines, but I've been programming some simple games with LÖVE [0] and (to a lesser extent) LÖVR [1] and like them both. But maybe not real game engines, as you need to do quite a bit of work by yourself. I guess it depends what your definition is of a game engine. --- [0]: https://love2d.org [1]: https://lovr.org.

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LOVE 2D

I haven't used many engines, but I've been programming some simple games with LÖVE [0] and (to a lesser extent) LÖVR [1] and like them both. But maybe not real game engines, as you need to do quite a bit of work by yourself. I guess it depends what your definition is of a game engine. --- [0]: https://love2d.org [1]: https://lovr.org.

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Defold Engine

I recently made a small game with https://defold.com/, and it was very pleasant. Completely free and cross-platform out of the box (including Switch & PlayStation support!).

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I am not primarily a game developer. But I wanted to see how some of it works. The engine that has been instrumental to it is DragonRuby Game Toolkit [0]. It was easy to set up and use. And I developed a simple game [1] following a really accessible book [2]. It uses Ruby which is an easy language to pick up- especially as someone who is experienced in Python. I really loved the experience and talked with the author to turn the book into a livecoding tutorial series. [0]: https://dragonruby.org/toolkit/game [1]: https://github.com/ritog/dragon-game [2]: https://dragonridersunite.itch.io/dragonruby-book.

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LibGDX

This answer is most likely based on what programming language you use most. The C++ folks will like Unreal and the JS folks have the preference as well. [0] https://libgdx.com/.

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GDevelop

I'm not really a game maker, but would like to give a shout out to the fabulous https://gdevelop.io/ It has everything you need, is free and its VISUAL PROGRAMMING is fab...

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Upbge

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