I want to make 2D games as a hobby. But I've noticed that easy engines like Gamemaker have their own meme little languages. Is there a popular and simple 2D language that uses an actual programming language like Python or something?

• Phaser

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  Discontinued Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser] (by photonstorm)

  

If your looking for a game engine I would check out Phaser (https://phaser.io/)

• godot-python

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  Python support for Godot 🐍🐍🐍

Also Godot is a good choice and is a full blown engine. GDScript is similar to python and if you prefer, yes you can use python if you are ok with it being unofficial support https://github.com/touilleMan/godot-python . Plus you can just use C# if you prefer or need to. It's hard to beat if you aren't aiming to do some AAA title and want to focus on 2d.

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• love

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  LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  

You could try something lightweight like https://love2d.org/ (love2d is a framework on Lua). I haven’t personally used it but was highly recommended.

• Wren

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  The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.

  

I make DOME Engine (https://domeengine.com) which lets you program using the Wren scripting language (https://wren.io)

• pong-game

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  A processing.org Pong Game

I have a simple Pong example here that I made in a day: https://github.com/BuriedStPatrick/pong-game

• processing

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• gitignore

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  A collection of useful .gitignore templates

  

Github have got a very comprehensive gitignore you can use for Unity projects: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore

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• Duality

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  a 2D Game Development Framework

  

Something a little different, you could try https://adamslair.github.io/duality/ a game engine built using c#. Has a visual editor too.

• GDevelop

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

• Bouncy-Balloon

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