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Not sure if this goes her because im new to lemmy, but i have a snapdragon plus laptop, 16 ram, no gpu, i got this laptop recently when it was on sale for portability and because chromebooks are bad.

I want to get into gamedev and explore both 2d and 3d but im unsure what to try with my laptop as a newcomer not knowing much?

What would you suggest and why so? i need the simplest of the simple.

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[-] Lembot_0005@lemy.lol 31 points 2 days ago

Pay attention to Godot: very low entry requirements to the user, but still it is a universal engine that does not limit you in what you're writing.

[-] immutable@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

I’ll second godot.

One of the hard things when getting started is trying to cobble together all the tools you need, and godot packages good enough solutions for everything you need to get started.

It’s very approachable and the docs are pretty incredible. The docs cover a huge range of information, there are step by step tutorials and all the reference information you need. The thing I was surprised by was how much else they had, there’s an entire section of vector and matrix math and it’s all from the point of view of game dev so it’s just what you need to know.

You don’t have to read it all upfront, but it’s really nice to have a resource you can go back to when you start wanting to dig a bit deeper and have this amazing resource freely available and written specifically for the engine you are using.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This. It runs great on most hardware, I was using it on my 2018 laptop with integrated graphics + 8gb of ram until a few months ago (when I upgraded to 16gb)

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