Which game engine for a 2D Game?

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  • Godot

    Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine

  • Lightweight and Open-source: https://godotengine.org/

  • GDevelop

    :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.

  • I only use GDevelop https://gdevelop.io and I do procedural generation all the time.

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  • corona

    Solar2D Game Engine main repository (ex Corona SDK) (by coronalabs)

  • https://solar2d.com/ is what I use. It uses LUA as the programming language and can build for iOS and Android as well as other platforms. The documentation is fantastic with heaps of example code to get started. I've released many games over the past 6 years using it and highly recommend it.

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