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?
Like many others, I’d recommend godot. While it is potentially complex. It is only as complex as you make it, based on what kind of projects you are making.
GDScript is actually pretty easy to learn and is very python-like. And in case that doesn’t work out for you, there are many community made extensions that add other languages to godot. It is also really lightweight. Capable of running on even low end laptops. If you don’t need all the bells and whistles of modern rendering, you can set it to “Compatibility” renderer mode. That runs on OpenGL instead of Vulkan and doesn’t require RenderingDevice support.