Defold. Fast and powerful, and so easy to deploy on any platform.
for my little silly experiments I use Raylib (C or the Go bindings).
Professionally: Unreal Engine 5 Hobby: Godot and Unreal Engine 5
Godot is fun, quick and small. Unreal is powerful, bulky and big.
https://phaser.io/ - web-first, so Easy to distribute even games made for game jams
I had to build a game in phaser 3 for my “html” course and I swore I would never try to game dev in js again.
I know we were using a very old version and we had very minimal guidance… have I missed something big that makes it tolerable to work with or do i just need more js experience?
The way you put it, it sounds that you have issues with the language. I can relate to that, but JS is what browsers understand natively. Probably using TypeScript is a good alternative, as static typing helps you keep afloat as the project grows.
As for Phaser itself (can be used with TypeScript), it depends what kind of game you’re making. Even older versions of phaser have the typical programming affordances to make 2D games like assets and physics. Having said that, it’s fair that other engines have visual editors, and possibly more tutorials and other resources.
But yes, phaser is hardly HTML, so weird choice for the course.
Unreal Engine. I’ve been enjoying learning it and building it. It’s powerful and so far has solved every problem I’ve had without much pain.
