Making a game - What engine?

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no questions best 2nd platformer engine out there

Gamemaker from YoYo Games. They were giving the Standard Edition for free. Some say, that it'S a multi use program. You can make anything with it :)

what about unity?

Pygame?

no engine?
be creative, make your own :)

Esenthel!

Unity. It's user-friendly, no need powerful PC.
The easiest is the RPG maker and it's extremely resourceful and still in Humble Bundle.

Source. :P
Serously, though, it depends. Do you want simple and easy, or complex and hard to use?

Well, if you want some easy to use, there are Stencyl and Construct 2.

source engine > all

Gamemaker studio (standard version is free) or Unity (free too until you sell 100,000 copies :P)

It depends if you want to stay with 2D or go to 3D later on. In the first case GameMaker will help you with an easy workflow and fast results but you will find the limits quite soon. Unity has a good workflow for 2D in the current version and also more options for later projects. There is a basic version that is free but the licence is quite heavy for hobby or starting indie projects.
As for Unity, you will not need the Pro version for the first few projects and you will learn a lot.
GameMaker and RPGMaker are nice programs but have both limited uses as for game types and target platforms.

What i am saying is, do your research on the game you want to make and choose the engine best suitable for the task. On the decision think about game type, target platform and look what you need to learn for the specific engine.

Source ! XD

unity

if it's 2D, I recommend Game Maker.

Stencyl is pretty decent.