On: Learn Godot Game Development

[muststopmyths]

last I looked at it a few years ago, Cocos2D was a pretty good balance between powerful and newbie-friendly. The tutorial started from the basics of what makes a game program and built up from there. Quite a nice engine for 2D stuff.

[yboris → muststopmyths]

For cross-platfrom 2D (not mobile, but Windows, Mac, Linux) I recommend looking at Love2D

https://love2d.org/

Easy to use, good documentation, simple API, based off Lua. I suspect it's meant for smaller projects.

[ASVVVAD → yboris]

Actually, Love2D is for used mobile as well. Both android and iOS is supported and there are community ports for other platforms

[notagamedev → muststopmyths]

Thanks!