Dad looking for the best beginner game dev software/website

1

Scratch

Https://scratch.mit.edu/ is a good one to start with, and it’s easy to move to something like Construct 3. I saw somebody else suggested game maker studio which is a really great choice as well the makers of Crashlands use it and they are just amazing people https://www.bscotch.net/.

#Kids Education #Programming #Coding 558 social mentions

2

Git

For serious collaboration you should probably look into GIT and services like GitHub. It's not very intuitive, even scary for some, but it is powerful and very much a standard for letting a group of people work on a common code-base. However, for a father-son project it will probably be easier to just work with Google docs or Dropbox or whatever means you have to share files with each other.

#Git #Git Tools #Code Collaboration 215 social mentions

3

microStudio

#Development #Gaming Software #Game Engine 9 social mentions

4

Twine

Twine lets you make text based games as easily as you'd make a google doc. It also lets you use HTML and Javascript so you can get as complex as you want with them which is a great way to dip your toes in and gradually feel your way toward the deep end of the pool at your own pace. You can learn about if statements, variables and other programming logic piece by piece without your overall game progress getting bogged down and killing motivation. It's also a fun way to prototype a simple game idea.

#Visual Novel Engine #IDE #Game Development 276 social mentions

5

GameMaker Studio

For more complicated projects I've heard gamemaker is the easiest to get into, is free, and is still used to make small commercially successful games.

#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 36 social mentions

6

itch.io

Godot would be a better alternative. It hits many of the points you mention: * It is pretty simple and fast to get started * It is lightweight [comparing its install size, for instance, on my computer, Godot is ~70MB, versus the 2...4...or even 10GB of some of my Unity installs], so it should run acceptably on lower-end machines. * It uses a scripting language that's similar to Python. * You can deploy to a web-based target, if you'd like. [Check out (Itch.io)[https://itch.io/] for a place where you can freely distribute your projects] * It supports both 2D and 3D games.

#Games #Comparison #Online Shopping 7498 social mentions

7

Godot Engine

As many others have pointed out already, check out Godot, it seems to be a very good fit to what you're asking for.

#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 447 social mentions

8

GitHub

For serious collaboration you should probably look into GIT and services like GitHub. It's not very intuitive, even scary for some, but it is powerful and very much a standard for letting a group of people work on a common code-base. However, for a father-son project it will probably be easier to just work with Google docs or Dropbox or whatever means you have to share files with each other.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2043 social mentions

9

Adventuron

#Visual Novel Engine #Project Management #IDE 4 social mentions