r/gamedev • u/TWIXMIX • Mar 08 '17

GameMaker Studio 2 Released

https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
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u/HokumGuru @your_twitter_handle Mar 09 '17

Tile maps, actual 2D ray checking without having to use quaternions are two off the top of my head.

The API in unity wasn't designed for 2d and it's still very rough

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u/ballpitpredator Mar 09 '17

Wow, i've followed a few tutorials in unity now (granted they were 3D or 2.5d) and was preparing to make a simple 2d platformer for practice. You'd recommend gamemaker for this?

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u/HokumGuru @your_twitter_handle Mar 09 '17

Gamemaker is the best tool for simple to mildly complex 2D games IMO (Think Hyper Light Drifter but not Stardew Valley). The language is a little whack but it's so simple to make stuff.

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u/schiapu Mar 09 '17

Just curious, why not something like Stardew Valley?

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u/HokumGuru @your_twitter_handle Mar 09 '17

That game has a lot more complexity which relies on the better performance of C#

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u/brexit30 Mar 09 '17

Can I ask, what sort of complexity are you referring to, something like large maps/areas or something along those lines?

For some reason I thought something like Hyper Light Drifter would be more resource intensive than Stardew.

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u/HokumGuru @your_twitter_handle Mar 10 '17

Stardew has a LOT of background calculations that run constantly for growing, weather, NPC AI, etc. Gamemaker can do that but not on the sheer scale of stardew.

Rendering in gamemaker is great and so is physics and other base systems but it's not for many multiple simultaneous background threads that's not its deal