Why I Chose Gamemaker For My Indie Game

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Music by Jordan from O. and Co.

[justachipofftheiceberg]

Making videos games is so much fun. Your literally a god building your own world. Deciding how the physics work and all that

[Niles_Games]

I didn't realize TetherGeist was a Gamemaker game! Gamemaker definitely deserves more love.

[Symmetrickgd]

I'll quote pirate software on this "there's no best engine, whatever you feel comfortable with is the best"

[beanoid]

Been watching your videos for a while and only recently tried out the demo, but I am legit so excited for this game and made sure to back it on kickstarter as soon as it went live. What you all are making looks absolutely fantastic, keep it up!

[ajinkyax]

wow this makes me feel great, I also choose GameMaker for my 2D game. I wish someday I will also be part of team like you :)

[riverbackgames]

Great video! Been using game maker since 2012 for learning and it has not always been so clear and easy to use. One of those things worth mentioning is the new "Workspace" where you can set up your objects and code side by side. Also could've mentioned that the GameMaker comes with quite robust text editor of it's own. Other than that you nailed it with this video. Wishlisted TetherGeist and subsdcribed. Hopefully you will get to make a video about the steamworks as I'm just moving into that phase with my project.

[sherekhangamedev]

Thanks, Jordan, for shining a spotlight on GameMaker, it is an engine that deserves more love.
Today the position that some people take is very reductionist or tribal, when the reality is that it is good that there are so many options, according to one's knowledge or learning capabilities, budget, workflow choice, the type of game that one wants to make or where one is comfortable and can quickly develop.

I agree with everything, I would only add to the honor roll 1up Indie, which is also a school on YouTube of everything that is GameMaker for years, and also recently the official Game Maker channel that has been uploading very useful material.

It's true that there are few places to seek wisdom about GM, for example Zenva recently added GameMaker courses.
But for those few places, they are really pure gold and the Discord communities are very collaborative too.

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[threeqs]

Very helpful. All the best for your game.

[SocietyOfDecency]

Low skill floor but a high skill ceiling. Incredible. I've been wanting to start dabbling in making a game for awhile. I think I will be trying this!

[Brandon-wo]

I was not aware of Gamemaker at all. Thank you for this video!

[VICE-HRO]

Your game looks so cool. Keep working on it! 👍

[fuuby]

i dont know who makes your game art, but its really beautiful.

[PapaGurgle]

I'm a bit of a control freak so I use a custom engine instead of GameMaker, but the block programming was fantastic for making small projects when I was growing up (GameMaker 8 and the original Studio).

I think it helped me internalize programming concepts without actually writing code, which let me pick up programming proper far more quickly.

[ugib]

Game looks pretty cool. The art style reminds me a lot of Moonlighter, though way more detailed.

Gamemaker is an engine I haven't tried yet. I knew you had to pay in order to publish, but that is a very reasonable amount of money, especially for the professional tier. One time at 100$ isn't too shabby.

[distantforest]

Something that isnt usually touched on that often as well is that performance wise its probably one of the faster engines for 2d games. Yes faster than unity and godot. Atleast for the defaults. Sure you can you can use unity dots and use c++ for godot, but those arent the easiest nor the defaults of their respective engines.

[panampace]

I made my first game in Game Maker 5.3 in 6th grade - over 20 years ago. That’s crazy to think about.

[MrZap]

This is a great video, I wanted to ask if you can list the games you showed in this video for i can also give them a look? :)

[freakingcoolindies]

TetherGeist on Switch 2 confirmed with that "Enterprise" package for console ports 🤔🥳🤠

[melodawgk]

Game looks pretty cool, I’m working in unity to create a silent hill type survival horror!

[articex]

Planning on bringing this game to GOG? I like to own my games, thanks! Looks fun