I belive i would like to try making games but my laptop isint that powerful. Its a thinkpad from like 10 years ago, i upgraded it to a 250gb ssd, and 16gb of low voltage ddr3, i also put linux on it to screeze out as much as possible. So i need something that will run but im struggling on choosing expecially sense i want to start for free. I want to start with something dead simple and work my way up.
What would you suggest and why so?
since you haven’t said anything about type of game, if you want to start at the dead simple side and visual novels sound interesting maybe look at Ren’py?
visual novels have less going on than a big 3d game, so if you want an easy start from 0 it should be as close as you can get. python is straightforward if you don’t have programming experience, but otherwise is really commonly used so gives a nice basis for whatever else you want to do.
ren’py also has gotten plenty of commercial use if you wanted to go further in that direction. most big name vn games use it.