Based on our record, TIC-80 seems to be a lot more popular than Upbge. While we know about 66 links to TIC-80, we've tracked only 5 mentions of Upbge. 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.
The Pico-8 is great, but https://tic80.com/ is really cool too. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
Or the more free TIC-80. I have paid for both, but never used either enough to be able to say one or the other has any significant advantages. https://tic80.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Or its open source cousin TIC-80: http://tic80.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
I wish the community moved to an open source option like TIC-80[0]. 0. https://tic80.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
Main differences are: 16:9 aspect ratio, no cpu limits and many languages to tinker with: lua, js, squirrel, wren, janet, wasm, ... And just recently - a Python support was added. https://tic80.com. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months 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
PICO-8 - Lua-based fantasy console for making and playing tiny, computer games and programs.
Godot Engine - Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Unity - The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pyxel - Retro game engine for Python inspired by fantasy consoles.
Solar 2D - Solar 2D is an open-source game engine written in Lua with a major emphasis on ease of usage and iteration.
LOVE 2D - Hi there! LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua.