SpriteKit
Corona SDK
Marmalade
Godot Engine
Unity
Unreal Engine
Cocos2d-x
AppGameKit
Upbge
Godot Engine
Solar 2D
Unity
LÖVR
Adventure Game Studio
GDevelop
TIC-80
SpriteKitBased on our record, Upbge should be more popular than SpriteKit. It has been mentiond 5 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I don't recommend it but what you are looking for is probably Spritekit. Maybe it can be useful to give you an easy start and get you more interested. Source: almost 2 years ago
There are tutorials on https://www.raywenderlich.com that I can recommend. Also Apple's Documentation is usually good: https://developer.apple.com/spritekit/. Source: about 2 years ago
Starting with 2d games is very good advice however if the child is mostly interested in 3d, well not the most helpful advice. Some people here forget that children are way more tolerant of not understanding things than adults are. They just want to get a quick taste not necessary dedicate their life to the study of game development. I think something like RPG in a Box https://rpginabox.com/ is nice if the child... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
It's not as monolithic as you'd think. There are lots of engines out there but their communities aren't very vocal compared to Unity, Unreal, and especially Godot's community. Take a look at: https://itch.io/game-development/engines/most-projects And https://www.gamedeveloper.com/blogs/the-generous-space-of-alternative-game-engines-a-curation- If you look at both of these you'll see just how many engines there are... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
UPBGE which was formerly part of Blender is the only modern 3D engine I know of that supports Python for game development. Source: about 1 year ago
Another would be https://upbge.org/ 3D game engine forked from the old Blender Game Engine and deployed with Blender itself. Source: over 1 year ago
There still is a fork of the old one https://upbge.org/. Source: over 1 year ago
Corona SDK - Cross-platform mobile app development.
Godot Engine - Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Marmalade - Platform to author, deploy and manage high performance 2D and 3D games.
Solar 2D - Solar 2D is an open-source game engine written in Lua with a major emphasis on ease of usage and iteration.
Unity - The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
LÖVR - Virtual Reality for Lua
