godot, because it’s foss and has a friendly and beginner-friendly community.

ZZT

A text editor…

1.2 Mb of uncommented code using single letters for variables written 30 years ago that somehow compiled into ASCII based vertical scrolling space shooter.

Yes, I’m embarrassed; No, you can’t play it.

I still have the floppy disk, but I refuse to buy a drive to load the file onto my current computer because I would cringe so hard I would die. It was written in god-damned QuickBASIC…

MSPaint. Paint is King.

PICO-8, though it’s more of an on-and-off again project of trying to teach myself to program again.
But I like the limitations you have to work with, and even I can create some crude 8x8 sprites :)

Bevy, cause I’m a sucker for Rust

Visual Studio

SDL2, with Android NDK, commandline version.

I haven’t found one that’s good enough that i can say it’s a favorite. I think it’s usually best to seek out an engine for each project because they all have major upsides and major downsides that can make or break a project.

Classical voice. I like lieder, Matthew Polenzani’s Lizst album is wonderful, or Lisette Oropesa’s Mozart arias album.

Visual Studio with Monogame