which programming language/game engine to use for an RPG?

[wise granite]

tbh any generic game engine should work. godot, unreal, unity, etc. but i wouldn't use gdevelop or scratch because they don't seem to scale well

[wise granite]

that’s not an engine though. it’s a language and it isn’t the most performant, but there’s phaserjs and ctjs if you want to use javascript.

the bad performance won’t matter if you make a text rpg with html buttons and forms though so

[wise granite]

you’ll still run into scaling issues with almost anything that involves visual programming, and it still used javascript. godot runs on pretty slow hardware but if that’s not enough the javascript libraries might work.

if it’s small go for turbowarp ig. i never used it.

[clear storm]

Game maker studio is good for 2d top down RPG's

[earnest gorge]

Plus they really are a hell to develop in without addons

Or writing JS code for basic shit

[earnest gorge]

Or cocos creator

If your using TS

Which is similar to JS