hey , would like to know if there are free game making tools and programming guides out there

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  • Signup

    Information about signing up for a free Epic Games account, and getting access to UnrealEngine source code.

  • If you just want to make something and mess around in 2D or 3D I would recommends just using Unity. Its super easy to pickup and has countless online tutorials on how to do it. Unreal is also free but is a bit trickier to pickup and used by fewer indie devs out there.

  • MonoGame

    One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.

  • Lastly if you really want to get into programming and get your hands dirty you can use what I use: Monogame Its always free and opensource. Unity and Unreal have different forums of getting money from you once you publish your games (If you do) They are pretty lax tho. Unreal only takes a small % of profits over a certain amount and unity has a subscription fee for extra things, or if you are making over a certain amount.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • PhysicsExamples2D

    Examples of various Unity 2D Physics components and features.

  • If you just want to make something and mess around in 2D or 3D I would recommends just using Unity. Its super easy to pickup and has countless online tutorials on how to do it. Unreal is also free but is a bit trickier to pickup and used by fewer indie devs out there.

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