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Game devs of lemmy, what are the best game engines for beginners, also why so? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So i may or may not get into game dev but im thinking of using a fantasy console becasue of lua or maybe godot becasue everyone says to use godot i guess. ive treid running unreal, unity on my low en dpc but they just dont work also there not really open source and open source is cool. i havent really made a game before i usally just copy and paste code from the internet or chatgpt... also id ther eanything else you want to share like what are beginner ideas, how didi you learn, or whatever thing you think of.

im not even sure if i want to get into game dev or not but it seems interesting.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My experience with game development is fairly cursory, but I actually found Tic-80 to be a lot of fun, and a fantastic way to get used to game dev concepts without becoming too tied down learning about semantics (although, if you continue to pursue serious programming, taking semantics seriously and practicing them should definitely be part of your approach).

The main thing when learning any type of coding is that you're learning to do things that interest you. After that, a lot of what you'll learn is actually quite transferable.

So, my recommendation is Tic-80. Can I just ask, though: what passes for a "low end pc" these days? (I ask this as someone who was stuck using a Pentium 4 until September 2017, and so my current 2nd gen i5 still feels light it's lightning-quick!)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

ive heard about tic-80 and it sound sgood from what ive heard about it, so i might have to give it a shot.

also my pc is a "refurbished" windows 7 office desktop that had been updated kinda but its hard to run mos tmodenr things on it even with a nvidia 1030 card, and i wish i could run thing slike stable diffusion but it crashes when i try to install it also unreal does the same, like my pc freezes and i have to reboot it.