Best Game Engines for Beginners

What game engine should you use on your beginner game dev journey?
Still, have doubts? Don’t worry..! This blog is for you! There are countless options when it comes to choosing game engines!

Ask yourself a few questions to help narrow your search. Is your game going to be 2D? Will it be 3D? Do you know how to code? Do you prefer visual programming?

This blog will provide best game engine options for all of the above. Well, this blog is written based on game community suggestions.

1. Construct
In 2007 Scirra L.T.D., a London-based computer software company, developed and released a DirectX 9 Open Source game engine called Construct – fun fact, the first version of Construct was renamed Construct Classic, and you can still download it from its repository at SourceForge.

The project took off, and by 2011, Construct 2 was released as proprietary software. A third version, Construct 3, was released in 2017. Construct 3 is very popular amongst indie and hobby developers, with over 50% of the HTML5 games submitted to Kongregate being made with it. It is also the second most popular game engine in itch.io.

2. GameMaker
Next on the list is another engine that’s great for 2D games, GameMaker. GameMaker was first created as an animation tool by university professor Mark Overmars and released under Animo in 1999. He further developed the tool until it became a complete game development tool.

In 2007 Mark joined Yoyo Games, which at the same time absorbed Gamemaker, and development on the Engine continued. Gamemaker Studio was released in 2012, and Gamemaker Studio 2 in 2017. Gamemaker Studio 2 is a 2D-only game development suite that fully offers all the tools necessary to develop and publish a game from scratch.

It’s a favorite of many beginner game developers and creative professionals as, due to its renowned visual scripting system, it can be used with little or no coding knowledge. More advanced developers enjoy the Engine, too, as users can inspect the code behind the visual script and modify it to get exactly what they’re looking for.

3. Unreal Engine

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