Engine for 10-year-old who also wants to learn how to write code (ie. not block programming)

1. love

   1 266 7,065 9.0 C++

   LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

   

   PICO-8 is also worth considering? As is Löve2D: https://love2d.org/

2. JetBrains

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3. processing

   2 465 6,505 3.8 Java

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   Depending on your child's ability, you could also check out https://processing.org/ .

4. blog

   3 1 2,960 4.3

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   I think Building Bytepath is a great tutorial, and I think the extra exercises it gives you are great to make you think about what you're learning.

5. CToy

   4 5 1,382 2.6 C++

   Interactive C live coding environment

   

6. pyxel

   5 44 16,611 9.8 Rust

   A retro game engine for Python

   

   Not a game dev, but I remember looking at a tiny game engine called pyxel that seems to fit your description very well.

7. Arcade

   6 48 1,856 9.6 Python

   Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games.

   

   An alternative to Pygame is Arcade: https://arcade.academy/

8. GDevelop

   7 154 16,228 9.8 JavaScript

   🎮 Open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D/multiplayer game engine designed for everyone.

   

   GDevelop might be a good option. It doesn't require any specific coding language knowledge, as it uses a sort of visual scripting language. It's supposed to be quite good for beginners.

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