I could learn a thing or two here. While not a game developer, but a creator in general, I had my drive diminished to really low tiers. This reached the point where I can't do art or write anymore, and I WANT to make games. I have such great ideas, but with the barrier of learning how to code and the whole lack of energy for creating brought up by a ton of unfortunate events, I just couldn't make much for the past MONTHS. This has been going since before the whole pandemic (and cop bullshit, lemme add) happened.
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I think Construct can make platformers with no code out of the box. You might still need to learn to code to do everything you want, but you'll probably pick up some of the basic concepts of coding even just doing doing it visually. In the meantime, you could get a feel for just the fundamentals of 2D platformers themselves, which is probably a good idea before launching into your larger vision. But yeah, when you're just not feeling it, it can be hard.