I've just released my small passion project: the Micro Game Engine. It's supposed to be a tribute to the first versions of Game Maker, and to the amazing feeling of being able to create small experiments and games in no time.
Nowadays it's really a struggle to get anything going with the 2 mainstream engines being too massive to justify opening them up just to have some fun.
Here's my solution: a super lightweight engine that will do all the heavy lifting for you, leaving the fun parts to the developer.
Have a look at a small video that shows how to make a small adventure game demo with the engine!
If you like what you see, you can find it here: https://thaon.itch.io/mge