I've used Greenfoot [1], BlueJ [2] and Processing [3] successfully with High School kids, and they all run on Linux. Squeak Smalltalk [4] is another possibility

I've used Greenfoot [1], BlueJ [2] and Processing [3] successfully with High School kids, and they all run on Linux. Squeak Smalltalk [4] is another possibility. I've had pretty good luck with Game Maker, but have not tried LÖVE. 1. http://www.greenfoot.org/ http://www.greenfoot.org/ 2. http://bluej.org/ http://bluej.org/ 3. http://processing.org/ http://processing.org/ 4. http://www.squeak.org/ http://www.squeak.org/