Little or no code engines

These are game engines that require very little (or minimal) starting knowledge about software development to begin with.

Ink

{Ink}

This is a markup language used for making branching narrative games.

Tiny Choices

{Tiny Choices}

A little online tool for creating text adventures!

Bitsy

{Bitsy}

An online tool for making adventure games where you navigate rooms!

Puzzlescript

{puzzlescript}

An in browser engine for creating tile based block puzzle games.

p5.play

{p5.play }

This is a JS library based off p5.js and contains most of the gubbins needed for creating games of all sorts.

Larger more complex engines of interest

Unity

{Unity}

Unity is included here mostly because I have had prior experience using it and despite everything it is not all bad. This is quite a heavy weight program that allows for creating 2d and 3d games.

Godot

{Godot}

The Godoot engine is an open source games engine that is capable of creating 2d and 3d games.

GB Studio

{GB Studio}

This is an tool for making games for the Gameboy. It can also export to web.

Frameworks

GBDK 2020

{GBDK 2020}

This is an updated version of the gameboy development kit that brings it more up to date.

SDL2

{SDL2}

SDL2 is a media library for C that can "easily" be used to create games.


Topics:

{game dev}