I had the most fun on this using löve (love2d), it is pretty sweet. Just a text editor of your choice and you are good to go - you can also connect it to an ide for debugging if needed.

I am not a super fan of C# but if you are more into that there is also Monogame/FNA, but I haven't used those - I did use XNA back in the day and they seem very similar.

I actually use AGS though.