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?
objectively the one with the cult is a good recommendation for a beginner since there’s a strong community making content, arguably the most important factor in choosing something
godot also has a lot of stuff baked in, so the community tends to use the built in solution for everything. you won’t end up with one tutorial recommending a collision engine that makes assumptions that don’t work with the other tutorial for different pathfinding or whatever. they all start with basically the same assumptions.
pygame is a little intimidating since you start with an empty file and a pygame import. there’s no real enforced or even commonly followed structure beyond that. beginners can figure it out but it leaves a lot of architecture questions open for you so your tutorials probably won’t line up well.
and I say all of that as someone who doesn’t particularly enjoy godot, especially gdscript.