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[TheProx1ma]

I'm looking for a free 2d game engine, that's fairly easy to use, I have very little experience programming, I know very little of C# and that's about as far as my experience in that goes.

Thanks

[carlj]

XNA. The engine supports both 2D and 3D and uses C#.
http://creators.xna.com/

[alphadog]

TheProx1ma said:

I know very little of C# and that's about as far as my experience in that goes.

If you barely know programming, the language doesn't matter. Game development is a broad and complex field.

Apart from XNA, IMO, good 2D engines for beginners (because of quality, established code base, and breath of tutorials and community) include: SDL, FlatRedBall, Haaf's, PTK, PyGame and Torque. (In the last one's case, it's good for beginners, but not when you want to get more advanced.)

Read up on them, and lurk in their communities. See which one is best for you...

PS: You may want to read the sticky post in this forum. Then, wash up...

[fireside]

To add a few more there's Jgame and Agen. Jgame uses java, which is about the same as C#, not many changes, and you can make applet games to put on your web site. Agen uses Lua, which is often also used in 3d engines so might be something to look at.

[Reedbeta]

Please see the many other threads in this forum on engine selection.