   Hey New to Game Dev, Looking for a good 2d game engine
  Well I'm new to "Programming" I'm looking for a good 2d game engine as that's what I want to start out with, not just going straight into 3d. I looked around I haven't found a good one. Hope to see some good recommendations.   
  If you're entirely new to programming -- and you want to learn -- then you're not at the point in your development when you want to be using a 2D engine. You should be using only the basic frameworks provided to you by your language standard library (this means, for the oft-recommended first languages C# and/or Python, that you are making mostly text-based programs) until you have more experience with the language and with software development in general.On the other hand, if you're not talking about actual programming and instead the process of "making games" sans programming, (e.g., with a game construction tool), you might want to look into tools like Game Maker, RPG Maker, Multimedia Fusion, et cetera.   ;  Hi chrono, just like jpetrie has just said, if you are completely new to programming, its always best to get to know the language at least to a moderate level before attempting to develop games with it. It will pay off a thousand-fold. As soon as you get to know the rules and methods from a particular language, you can then with alot more ease, adapt it to games development.Also, If you are just interested in using a game construction tool, i can recommend RPG Maker, I used it around 5 years ago, and its a very nice 2d game construction tool, and there were (if you look around) endless resources available online, and many tutorials too.all the best for the future   ;  Well I started learning python and I'm getting pretty good at that, I looked at pygame but didn't see any rpg;s made with it so I dunno about that one.   ;  PyGame is perfectly viable for use in the development of RPGs.   ;  Oh.. I never knew as I didn't see any rpgs, just platformers and adventure stuff.I heard Ika used python but whats better, Ika or Pygame?   