DifferentDance8 wrote:

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daredevilmonkeyface wrote:

Any beginner friendly engines?

Discounting AI-powered game engines (because A] most of them are only free up until a certain point and B] you don't have ownership over the end result), Scratch is by far the easiest. The second easiest would probably be something like Pygame

Or RPGMaker, but you gotta fork over some cash first
They go on sale often though.
I'm currently messing around with the software because it seems like the right medium for a story idea I've had for a while

Busterk66 wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

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daredevilmonkeyface wrote:

Any beginner friendly engines?

Discounting AI-powered game engines (because A] most of them are only free up until a certain point and B] you don't have ownership over the end result), Scratch is by far the easiest. The second easiest would probably be something like Pygame

Or RPGMaker, but you gotta fork over some cash first
They go on sale often though.
I'm currently messing around with the software because it seems like the right medium for a story idea I've had for a while

yeah, but that's like saying “the best game engine is Renpy”. Just like how Renpy is limited to visual novels, RPG Maker is limited to… it should be obvious based on the name alone

DifferentDance8 wrote:

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Busterk66 wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

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daredevilmonkeyface wrote:

Any beginner friendly engines?

Discounting AI-powered game engines (because A] most of them are only free up until a certain point and B] you don't have ownership over the end result), Scratch is by far the easiest. The second easiest would probably be something like Pygame

Or RPGMaker, but you gotta fork over some cash first
They go on sale often though.
I'm currently messing around with the software because it seems like the right medium for a story idea I've had for a while

yeah, but that's like saying “the best game engine is Renpy”. Just like how Renpy is limited to visual novels, RPG Maker is limited to… it should be obvious based on the name alone

Not really, surprisingly enough. I say that because plugins for MV and MZ are written in Javascript, so if you know Javascript you can do pretty much anything.
I started writing my own plugin because I needed to display to the player a single objective in a window.

DifferentDance8 wrote:

daredevilmonkeyface wrote:

Any beginner friendly engines?

Discounting AI-powered game engines (because A] most of them are only free up until a certain point and B] you don't have ownership over the end result), Scratch is by far the easiest. The second easiest would probably be something like Pygame

honestly id say either PICO8(costs money) gamemaker maybe construct 3 or TIC80(an open source PICO8 clone)

jarscratch1111 wrote:

DifferentDance8 wrote:

daredevilmonkeyface wrote:

Any beginner friendly engines?

Discounting AI-powered game engines (because A] most of them are only free up until a certain point and B] you don't have ownership over the end result), Scratch is by far the easiest. The second easiest would probably be something like Pygame

honestly id say either PICO8(costs money) gamemaker maybe construct 3 or TIC80(an open source PICO8 clone)

I use godot now i wrote this a long time ago