I’ll second the recommendation for PICO-8 to get started with making games. The built-in game browser, combined with being able to easily see the source for those games is fantastic.

https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/6e191bf6b6f062e5f558...

> The built-in game browser, combined with being able to easily see the source for those games is fantastic.

TIC-80 gives you those + all four essential freedoms (seeing, sharing, modifying and using) with the source of the fantasy console itself.

There are some good examples prepackaged with it (from drawing a single sprite to a little ~½ dozen screen top-down action adventure).

I wish they didn’t try to look like a console.