Upbge VS Solar 2D

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

Solar2D[0] (formerly Corona SDK) is also based on Love2D. I got into programming via Corona SDK inspired by Bubble ball[1] made by a 14 y.o boy. [0]https://solar2d.com/ [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Ball. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

This is using the Lua language and the Solar2d game framework. Source: 10 months ago

I was a big fan of Solar2D (formerly known as CoronaSDK) for many years... I developed several games for the various App Stores. It's still around, free, and is now Open Source. Source: about 1 year ago