Godot. I'm not saying this just because it's open source but it's geniunely a great beginner friendly engine. GDScript should be easy to learn coming in from Lua, it shares many concepts.
This sounds great. Looks like it runs on Linux too so I can pull them away from the mandatory Windows environment Roblox uses. I'll start digging around for tutorials. Thanks for the suggestion
Most importantly it exports to Mobile. Mobile is a bigger market right now than any of the others. You can make iOS, Android games -- even simple games with some ads on them could pull in a small amount of income.
This is a huge bonus for sure. They spend a lot of time playing games on their phones. I'm sure if they could see what they created on their phones it would encourage them to make more stuff. Thanks!
Fun fact: Godot also runs on Android devices. Having a big screen tablet with bluetooth mouse and keyboard makes a pretty sweet mobile workstation.
Seconding Godot here. GDScript is almost functionally identical to Python, and if you use the ".NET" version of godot you can even use C# if you want, but you really won't need to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8-JVjtJlIQ -- HeartBeast's tutorial series in Godot is fantastic to learn the ins and outs of the engine, even if you don't necessarily want to create the type of game he's making.
HeartBeast is a great teacher in general. His Game Maker videos are also good.
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