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?
Probably not what you are looking for, but I think a great place to start is Pico-8, there is an education version, but it only costs $15 to start making games in Lua with the real version on your machine. Although it’s very limited (think like Game Boy color games) you will learn a lot of the basics, there’s 1000’s of games you can look at the code of, and a good community and learning resources.
It’s a quick easy way to get started in game creation, and if you’re new to programming it will be a while before you run out of challenges.
Like a number of commenters have said, it depends on what type of games you want to make - Pico-8 is limited, deliberately.
That’s very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Certainly it’s not something I will ever use but it’s neat to know it exists.