Question: Which **free** game engines on Ubuntu would be the best choice for me to create **2D** games. 
The engine should **not** be **too hard** to use and support **multiplayer** if possible. I'd use it to create games with **graphics like TeeWorlds** in combination with Inkscape ofc. 

I have tried **Löve** which is one of the free 2D game engines I find very interesting. It's available at <http://love2d.org/>. It uses lua for the programming language.

Any suggestions? 

Thanks

Answer: 
A good choice is [PyGame](http://pygame.org/), which you can use to write games in Python.

To get started, you can use [Quickly](http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/tools/quickly/):

1. Have a look at the [getting started page in the Ubuntu App Developer site](http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/) for a 5 minute quickstart
2. Use the PyGame template by running this command on a terminal: `quickly create ubuntu-pygame my-game` (where `my-game` is the name of the game you want to create)
3. Learn more from using PyGame on [this session](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/appdevweek1109/FreeformDesignGooCanvasPyGame) from the last [Ubuntu App Developer Week](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAppDeveloperWeek).
I am a non-coder and have very basic knowledge of programming. I found 'Stencyl' (<http://www.stencyl.com/>) to be perfect for me. I have tried some tutorials and found it simple enough to create basic games and found that it has the potential to make larger ones too. It is available for Ubuntu but requires the non free JVM to be installed.