love VS Godot Card Game Framework

Start by making some games imo, unless you already have a good project in mind. https://tic80.com or https://love2d.org

If all goes well with PICO-8, you can "upgrade" to love2d, which like PICO-8 uses Lua programming language, but allows for higher resolutions, and generally more polished outcome.

I have a similar profile, and I have tried many different engines/frameworks/libraries. Some thoughts: - ebiten, written in Go, is a very light game dev lib. I like Go, so writing "my own engine" with it was pretty fun (I have some libs for ebiten here). Mostly 2d. - Love2d is sort of the same thing, but written in C++, and scriptable in Lua. I absolutely love this level of abstraction, and this is probably the one I have been the most productive with (example here). Mostly 2d, but people have done 3d with it too. - Godot has a bright future, at least from my point of view. The 2D workflow is very very fast, much faster than Unity in my experience (you don't spend time waiting for stuff to recompile every time you edit a script, for starters), and they just released v4, which comes with insane improvements in 3D rendering. I have never delved into 3D, but from what I can see, it's on par with what Unity can produce these days. Plus, the founders have created a separate commercial entity to provide support for consoles (called W4games), because the open source licensing attached to Godot is not compatible with the NDAs involved in publishing for consoles - raylib and monogame might be interesting for you if you want to go old-school. They're both inspired by the same framework (XNA) and they work similarly. Also very close to the way Love2d does things, and a comparable level of abstraction. - Unity is slow. I honestly dislike it a lot, just for this reason. There's also a lot of "we've refactored this, and there's no docs yet, but you can also use this other system, and also the legacy one, and that one, or build your own based on these primitives" and it's hard when you're a beginner. If you know what you're doing I guess it's fine, or if you don't care, but as a software engineer, you will probably be like me and try to find the "best" solution to your problem, which is tiring and hard to do with Unity.

Also, a recommendation that is a little more Niche. Lua, and love. love2d.org is a really easy to make games with a relatively simple programming language. Could be fun.

Are you saying she wants the D? Because that's a total brainfuck. I'd much rather believe they merely fell in Löve.

Being a hard worker and having persistence are more important than being intelligent; a lazy genius never accomplishes anything. Try learning programming as its own skill separate from gamedev first. If you're finding C# too difficult, than try a simpler language like Lua. Lua specifically can be used with Love2D to make games.

i read you want to make games. go for 2d games, love https://love2d.org/ or pygame https://www.pygame.org/news or some kind of js engine for webgame https://github.com/collections/javascript-game-engines

You mean the game development library LÖVE?

I have found Godot_Card_Engine, a plugin by BraindeadBZH, and Godot Card Game Framework by db0, and was curious if anyone has had experience with either. Are these the best options or is there something else out there I may be missing?

https://github.com/db0/godot-card-game-framework and a framework

As others mentioned, I have created a card game framework on Godot which would fit all your requirements. I also have 2 different games in progress with it. One is like Slay the Spire and the other is a more traditional CCG style, called Fragment Forge. You can use them as reference.

Godot [0] is super intuitive, so I recommend it wholeheartedly. And then you ought to look at the Godot Card Game Framework [1], which I've also used for a uni project.

The author has a couple of examples (check their Github repo), which you can play online [2][3]. Also, join the Discord (check the repo for a link). The community is very friendly and helpful (just be sure to learn Godot first, though).

0. https://godotengine.org/

1. https://github.com/db0/godot-card-game-framework

2. http://fragmentforge.dbzer0.com/

3. http://dreams.dbzer0.com/

This has just been added to the card game framework and you're seeing one of my first games made with it, Project Dreams. Both are open sourced.

This is built upon the Godot Card Game Framework I've developed.

In the Card Gaming Framework I'm only definining the card layout in the inherited scene and then loading the card details during runtime from json dictionaries.

Maybe take a look at some card game templates that have been made open source? Like https://github.com/db0/godot-card-game-framework