Godot vs GameMaker - The Best 2D Game Engine!

This video is intended to give an accurate comparison between two of the top 2D game engines for game development. Godot and GameMaker both offer the tools needed to make most 2D games, so that begs the question: Which game engine is best for you? Throughout this video, I give a list of my top features of each game engine and why they may be a pro or a con. This is not an absolute list of all of the top features of each engine but contains many of my top features that I considered when choosing between these engines. I highly encourage you to comment any features I missed or any opinions you may have about these two engines!

Full disclaimer: It is difficult to be fully unbiased, and I have more experience with GameMaker myself. Either way, I highly recommend trying both engines out yourself and deciding which one you like better!

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[contextfree]

Not at the level of Undertale by any means, but some popular games made in Godot include Brotato, Cassette Beasts, & Dome Keeper, all with 1000s of positive reviews on Steam.

[pandacow]

Weird thing to say, but I clicked on your video because your smile looked so genuine and kind.

[foxmulder]

Signals in Godot are not going to be an easy thing for someone just starting. The ability to access any object from any other object in Game Maker Studio 2 gives it a strong advantage. Additionally, a nod system in Godot may be more confusing for a new developer, where as in GMS2 each part of the game is a different (well defined) thing, i.e. object, room, sound... etc...

[zitronekoma]

How is GML like C#? It's much closer to something like javascript. C# is very staunchly OOP and GML has very little of that in it's design.
Also a little feedback, it seems like you didn't prepare a script, in the future it might make the video more concise and to the point if you prepare what you are going to say beforehand. Additionally, if you're going to rate these engines maybe give a small overview of your credentials, why do we care about your opinion? Have you completed projects with both? Got a degree in game dev or cs? etc.
Good luck on the youtube journey!

[aronn]

gamemaker is one slice better than godot but godot is more friendly so that is a 100+ so yeah these are two great engines. But for me its better game maker so yeah

[foxmulder]

As somebody who uses both, I would have to suggest going with Game Maker Studio 2 when making 2D games. It has a lot of built in tools and is far more polished than Godot. Both are fast and easy to learn, however finishing a game and exporting/delivering a game once you are done is far easier using Game Maker Studio 2. That said, for practicing, use any of these two...

[A.E.B.]

Jorange you glad I didn't say banana.

[tik]

Does GameMaker have nodes and an easy way dor composition like Godot?

[ItsRagingRay]

I’ve moved from Game maker to unreal 5, the Blueprint in Unreal 5 feels like a higher level programming language like GML

[eduardomoura]

if for sore wild reason you can't use unity for 2d even rpg maker is more capable than godot.

[varyform]

"Use legs and hands vs brain" kind of video

[lemmings]

Use Godot or Unreal Engine and thats all

[berserker]

Lol python much readable, lmao me who's programming for years with Java, JavaScript, C# doesn't agree with a programming language that doesn't have semi;colon or if elif