If you don't want to use Unity or another one of the big engines and know C++, I've written a library for 2D games like this which focusses on being easy to use

If you don't want to use Unity or another one of the big engines and know C++, I've written a library for 2D games like this which focusses on being easy to use: https://github.com/jhasse/jngl https://github.com/jhasse/jngl