You might like Love2d, it’s a Lua framework that just lets you start coding, no editors or anything.

I just want something that will say : here’s your main, here’s your player character, we’ve taken care of the collision detection and inputs and rendering, there’s no gravity. Paint the tiles on this screen, and get going.

So are you looking for less of a framework/engine and more of a genre template thing? I’m not quite familiar with those, but Godot is a general purpose royalty-free engine, and I’ve seen templates before for a Zelda-style game, so that might be something worth checking out. It’s pretty simple to extend or change what you need.

Nah fuck the shareholders, if they do something we depend on and pay for it with tax dollars then we should own them.

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