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What are the best open source game engines? that can work on a potato... (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by QuietStorm@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/programming

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So what good open source game engine sare out there i know about things like godot but are there any others? i keep wanting to make a game but coding just gos right over my head but still i want to mak eone. it dosent help how my pc is low-end-ish (8gb of ram, windows 10, nvidia 1030 card).

im not even sure how to code or if there is a more visaul way to make games, i would prefer 2d btw becasue it seems easyier for beginner. im not even sure why i want to make a game but i just do maybe becasue im a nerd-ish and it give sme a goal/hobby.

also please share anything you feel is needed aswell and remeber im bascily a absolute beginner who dreams way too big.

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[–] arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Godot should work, as some have suggested.

Failing that, I would strongly recommend you become a little more familiar with coding so you can take a look at multimedia libraries such as SDL, Allegro and SFML.

Even if Godot works for you (it really should, I use it with my laptop with 16 gigs of ram but no dedicated graphics), you will absolutely need to be comfortable with coding to write your game scripts (basically your game's behavior) in GDScript, Godot's scripting language.

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can do everything except 3d rendering in SDL alone relatively easily. There's an image library that handles stuff like loading pngs, transforms and rotations to make things even easier. It's not anywhere near as easy as using a game engine like Godot or unity but the light weightedness of making something this way is unmatched by anything else. I mean you could make your project run on a Pentium 1 class machine if you really wanted to. You can still do 3d rendering in SDL but you have to be a graphics rendering expert to get anywhere near efficient acceptable performance.