Android Planning on making an Android game. Need some advice

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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this.

My name is Max and I'm new to this forum :D. I am a big fan of retro games. I have been planning on making a retro style game for Android devices but I have one question... Which software should I use? I found a lot but there is always a carch like "Pay $500 for the full version or you can't publish your app". It needs to be entirely free. Any advice? Thanks in advance :D

I'm sorry if this thread is not at the right place.
 
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What's your level of programming experience?

I'm using UNITY to make mine. It's free to publish games with as long as you're not making more than $10,000 per year off the game (in which case, you can probably afford to pay for a license! :D)
 
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Maxinator75 said:
I actually have no programming skills yet. Is Unity hard to learn? I'm planning on making it a 2D game.
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If you have no programming skills then yes, it's hard to learn. A game is an extremely complex piece of software. You'd be better of with something like GameMaker studio, I guess... but then you'll need to buy it before you can export to Android.
 

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