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Hi, I have a desire to make games. Hopefully people may enjoy them...if i ever manage to finish them.

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GameMaker Studio

Engine review

Hi all,

Having started out with python and pygame I found I couldn't achieve what I wanted. I moved to another very popular engine and have slowly learnt quite a bit of c#. I still found everything a bit counter intuitive to what I had previously learnt.

Having spent a month playing with gamemaker, I'm blown away. While I'm learning and using a language only for this I don't care it just makes sense. Calling gamepad for example is so easy and obvious.

The ability to quickly draw some sprites and have something running all in the engine too is great.

Moving forward my next project at the very least will be made in gamemaker.

A bargin at the price.

Only small gripe the add ons seem expensive compared to the base engine, having said that it's still cheap compared to alternatives.