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

• love

  258 4,341 9.6 C++

  LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  

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

• processing

  456 6,445 0.0 Java

  Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)

  

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

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• blog

  1 2,960 4.3

  Discontinued gamedev blog [Moved to: https://github.com/a327ex/blog] (by adnzzzzZ)

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.

• CToy

  5 1,299 0.0 C++

  Interactive C live coding environment

• pyxel

  41 13,146 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.

• Arcade

  47 1,606 9.2 Python

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

  

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

• GDevelop

  147 5,713 9.8 JavaScript

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

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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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