I think these are very important points, but they aren’t going to attract people who just want to dip their toes into games development to see if they like it. That’s most games devs to be honest. They try out an engine for the first little while. From there they decide to stick with it, so project number two is either done from the same engine they tested out or from an engine which shows off the one feature they are excited to try out. Defold doesn’t fit either of these situations. Personally when people tell me they would like to get into games development I recommend Pico-8 to them. I think it’s a great engine which truly teaches you a lot about the core of game development. It’s also an easy step from Pico-8 to Defold based on Lua and the way they treat the user.
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