Upbge might be a bit more popular than Stencyl. We know about 5 links to it since March 2021 and only 4 links to Stencyl. 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 have been using Stencyl for my personal 2d games. Source: about 1 year ago
I thought he used Stencyl (which has block coding like Scratch). Source: about 2 years ago
Isn't that what unity is? Honest question, I've never used it. There's also stencyl. Source: about 2 years ago
I'd choose something that requires less explicit programming, like Construct. It's proprietary software (I'm not affiliated with it in any way), but they have reasonable prices for education, and I know a person who has had success teaching kids to make basic games with it (with Construct 2, I think, which don't people prefer to Construct 3). Some similar tools which I haven't tried are Stencyl or GDevelop (this... Source: over 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
Unity - The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Godot Engine - Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 4 is a suite of integrated tools for game developers to design and build games, simulations, and visualizations.
Solar 2D - Solar 2D is an open-source game engine written in Lua with a major emphasis on ease of usage and iteration.
GDevelop - GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone.
FlatRedBall - Cross-platofrm 2D game engine using C#, focused on developer productivity, transparency, scalability, and ease of use.