As an experienced hobbyist game developer, I find Unity to be an incomprehensible airplane cockpit of bad UI. For the kind of game presented in the article, Ga

As an experienced hobbyist game developer, I find Unity to be an incomprehensible airplane cockpit of bad UI. For the kind of game presented in the article, Gamemaker Studio would be more reasonable. Unity has a lot you don't need, which obscures the path to making something simpler like this. I'm sure there are other good options too. I think there's a JS-based platformer-oriented engine out there.