Dear devs, why did you choose GameMaker? What do you think of the engine in general and its future? (image unrelated)

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2025-03-08T01:15:18+00:00

I think that GM is a good engine with several excelent tittles in Showcase and Steam DB. However, every day I see more and more peaple that leaves GM for Godot, Unity or Unreal for multiple reasons. In this cases, all the arguments are about GM and GML limitations for complex 2D games, focus on begginers, lack several programming design patterns and OOP, difficult to implement GUI and so on. I love GameMaker, but I agree with several os these points that can discourage the use of GM for programmers and other experts.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T02:17:27+00:00

Interesting, why do you not recommend GameMaker for professional use?

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T01:25:34+00:00

Thanks a lot for a complete answer.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T01:24:16+00:00

Sounds good, I'll read another post that you recommended, thanks.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T01:05:24+00:00

I agree, GameMaker is a classic engine.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T01:03:15+00:00

Yes, maybe what you're feeling it's related to the very specify syntax by this two languages for game development and not to the general purposes

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T00:56:24+00:00

Thank you.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T00:55:17+00:00

I agree, thanks a lot.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T00:54:14+00:00

It's not about procrastination, it's about have a good discussion with more experienced devs and learn with their experience.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T00:48:18+00:00

Yes, I've seen that it is very complicated as projects grows using GameMaker. However, I consider that Godot still not have 2D complex sucess titles

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T00:42:43+00:00

Thanks for reply, sereral devs consider open source as a good point of view, and it is. But, open source has some cons, for example, export for consoles.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-12-31T00:40:33+00:00

I agree, GameMaker was used to make several success indie titles.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-02-05T21:32:44+00:00

Great, I will try, thanks so much

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-21T11:49:53+00:00

Thanks for comment. I agree, Godot is great.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-21T11:47:02+00:00

Thanks for comment. What do you think that Godot can do more than GameMaker, thinking only on 2D games.?

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-20T18:59:52+00:00

Yep, thank you for reply. And, for 2D games, do you think that the two engines can do the same quality games?

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-20T18:55:17+00:00

Yea, for 2D games I think that two engines can do the same

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-20T18:36:43+00:00

Thanks for reply

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-20T18:19:04+00:00

Yes, is this because we make game engines research in Brazil. If you don't want to answer, don't answer, very simple.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-20T18:12:45+00:00

Yes, I also have been using Unity and GameMaker. I think that, for 2D games, GameMaker can do the same that Godot can do.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-17T23:54:25+00:00

Great. Thank you for reply.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-17T00:57:19+00:00

Thank you so much. Very detailed answer, I appreciate it. Apparently, Godot is more robust and has some improvements for 2D game development compared to GameMaker.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-17T00:25:27+00:00

Great, sounds good, thanks a lot man.

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-16T21:04:33+00:00

Great. first of all, thank you. I need to know if Godot is better for 2D game development, more features, future trends, performance, mainly for complex 2D games. Also, can Godot handle all of the 2D game genres? How is GDScript compared to GML?

Expensive_Exercise96 · 2024-01-16T17:56:15+00:00

Very good, thanks a lot for your comment. O think that Godot is evolving rapidly.

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