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Which Gaming Engine would be best for my game idea?

TimCS · 2022-11-15T00:41:15

Hi, I am trying to find an ideal game engine for my game idea (which would be 2d). Ideally for me, it would be best on my budget for the game engine to be free (e.g. Godot, Gdevelop etc) however if my game idea would best suit a gaming engine that does come at a price, then please do suggest these too.My BackgroundAt the moment my only experience with gaming engines has been Construct 2 which I paid for at the time (not 3 although I understand that they work the same) and a little Stencyl and coding in general, I have done Android SDK, OOP pascal, a little python, BASH scripting to name some. My Game idea in Summary (Not giving it all away!)The player (You) has control, of sorts, numerous characters on screen (probably starts of with 10). These characters will not need to be maintained and will have their own personalities and will mill around the screen doing different things (this will need to be added to the logic of the game) When one or more characters state changes , this will then make the player try and change that state, otherwise the “enemy” will try and find these characters. To prevent the “enemy” from finding these characters, you can make other characters intercept or try and change the state of the players where their state has change before it is too late.So this could be quite complicated and just want a gaming engine that is not too difficult to learn and capable of doing this. Thanks TimCS

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Started by TimCS November 05, 2022 04:09 AM

14 comments, last by Ultraporing 1 year, 7 months ago

TimCS

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November 14, 2022 09:46 PM

Geri said:
Why would someone use an engine for a 2D game? We are not in 1997.

There are still a l of of 2d games made today oh and 2d games go back to the 80s this is how long this genre has lasted for.

Your point of view then would question why are there still lots of 2d gaming engines still being used today ? Because they are still popular.

Geri

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November 14, 2022 09:50 PM

TimCS said:
Your point of view then would question why are there still lots of 2d gaming engines still being used today ?

No, im actually questioning your coding skills.

Warp9

November 14, 2022 11:30 PM

TimCS said:
Godot (not sure how to start using this however)

If you want to figure out how to start using Godot, I'd suggest going to youtube and typing in “Godot tutorial 2D” here here is an example result, which you might find interesting. . .

TimCS

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November 15, 2022 12:12 AM

Warp9 said:
TimCS said:
Godot (not sure how to start using this however)
If you want to figure out how to start using Godot, I'd suggest going to youtube and typing in “Godot tutorial 2D” here here is an example result, which you might find interesting. . .

Thanks I've looked at these tutorials they are good . Although they generally cover the coding side not visual scripting

Ultraporing

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November 15, 2022 12:41 AM

TimCS said:
Thanks I've looked at these tutorials they are good . Although they generally cover the coding side not visual scripting

Hiho, sadly Godot discontinues Visual Scripting with version 4.0 like stated in this article https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-will-discontinue-visual-scripting

So you would need to stay on version 3.xx.
Here is a visual scripting tutorial for 2D movement:

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