GDevelop 5

I seem to be feeling marginally better after whatever I got poisoned with last week, granted I don't even know if being sick is supposed to feel quite like the madness I just experienced. There is a recent update I've been wanting to get in on.

I've been looking for a simple HTML5 based game engine to carry out some of my ideas. One that makes it easier to create complex 2D games with stuff like lighting and physics, while at the same time being lightweight optimal and easy to work with: I'm already using Godot but only want to work with it on complex 3D games. So far I've been coding simple games like Escape from Nibbles from scratch in JS, which works as they rely on very raw mechanics... I've been thinking about the possibility of creating platformers and RPG's too, and on that I've reached bottlenecks with writing the logic from scratch.

https://gdevelop.io

Meet GDevelop. This amazing engine took me by surprise when I first came across it thanks to how much it has everything: It's FOSS, designed to export exclusively to web (including standalone via Electron), has a logic editor with builtin objects / types / behaviors so you don't even need to code, and it even includes its own store and build system so you can automatically export your games when ready. All it took was going through their tutorials on Youtube to quickly learn how to use it.

I haven't started any serious projects yet, just messing around to get the hang of it like in those screenshots. It's possible I'll port an experiment in procedural RPG worlds I did a while back, might talk a bit about that next as I dropped it following the limitations of using my own engine. The thought of porting Nibbles to it occurred, since I could use physics for the pills and such... not a plan at the moment still, would need to finish the remaining backgrounds and dialogue at very least before I'd consider such. Let me know your thoughts and if you've had any experience with this engine yourselves!