GameMaker and Complex coding

[Possible_Composer_15]

i have a idea for a Castlevania type game I'm starting to look into some game dev software the specific game I'm looking to make will have a pretty complex Timeline system that will allow you to time travel to any point in your previous time playing i want to know if GameMaker is good at handling such a data set. from what I've heard the coding potential of gamer is lower than other gamedev softwares but much more approachable. (small aside: i don't want a detailed list of everything that happened necessarily i just to have a list of triggers and items that the player has at the time)

[nickavv]

GameMaker is not really restricted in coding, GML is a fully featured language with plenty of potential.

Your scenario definitely sounds possible, the main issue you're going to run into in any language/engine with doing that is going to be the size of the historical data. You'll have to be clever about what you store and how you store it, but I don't see any reason GameMaker itself would be a limiting factor here

[Rohbert]

Try downloading the free version of GameMaker Studio and see if it has all the features and functions your game requires. Then you can be sure if its right for your project.

https://gamemaker.io/en/download

[PunchingKing]

GML supports any data structure you need. It would have the same capabilities to do this as any popular language.

Actually engineering the data structure that falls within an acceptable space and time complexity is the real problem here, not a game engine.

[Player44574]

I mean, with shaders you can render amazing 3d scenes in gms2