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Hello, Beginner here. I want to make a 2D platformer, metroidvania style, with some weapon and skill selection.
I'm good at art but have no experience coding (ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE CODING)
Which engine would be good for that?
For what I have investigated, Game Maker Studio 2 is a good option, also Stencyl and Gamesalad look good for me.
What do you think?
I first started programming in Game Maker. Soon I was pretty good at it. After few years I knew all about it and it been too small for me (not many options). So I started learning C#, code is little bit similar so it wasn't problem. I rewrote my game in MonoGame. I am satisfied now. There are more options in MonoGame, you can do basically everything in it, but the price of more time spent writing code. See my page: https://rabcr.ga/
Summary, Game Maker is for a beginner, it's a great choice. MonoGame is free and well for someone who can programming.
Well it's possible to create in Game Maker some metroidvania style platformer, I think it's good choice.
In case of you are more familiar with graphics, maybe you could also look for visual scripting, which is like constructing a graph of interconnected actions. Unreal has Blueprint, a well tested environment for this but also Godot has a system for it. Try it out!
