The main things I'm looking for in each engine are: 2D Support, we will mainly be making nes/snes style games so the game engine need to support 2d games. I was tasked with deciding on a game engine, but I get analysis paralysis very easily, so I might be looking to close into the details of each game engine. I'm the most experienced with programming out of all of us, but I'm far from being an expert.
Me and a few of my friends have formed a small game dev studio.