So. Ich werde dann mal eine der wenigen deutschen Reviews hier verfassen.
Ich persönlich habe damals schon mit dem Game Maker 8.1 Spiele erstellt (Damals noch ohne GML). Irgendwann kam dann hier auf Steam Game Maker Studio, welches ich erstmal beobachtet habe. Als es dann für lappische 20€ im Angebot war habe ich es mir geholt.
Nun habe ich mir Game Maker: Studio 2 im Angebot für ca. 55€ gekauft.

Warum sollte ich von Game Maker: Studio umsteigen?
Vorallem wegen der Oberfläche. Sie ist viel intuitiver aufgrbaut und man behält dankt zahlreichen Suchoptionen immer den Überblick. Es arbeitet sich allgemein viel schneller mit dem neuen Game Maker. Dazu kommt der neue Editor, bei dem die Autocomplete Funktion nochmal um einiges schöner ist. Der Sprite Editor, welcher einen größeren Umfang bietet als der alte. In diesem ist es auch sehr angenehm Animationen zu erstellen, da man immer die Bilder oben sieht(War in der alten Version nicht so). Das komplette Drag and Drop System wurde überarbeitet. Nun kann man damit auch arbeiten, ohne das Gefühl zu haben, dass man eingeschränkt ist.


FAZIT:
In meinen Augen ist das Geld beim Game Maker: Studio 2 gut angelegt. Es macht Spaß damit arbeiten und eigene Spiele zu kreiren. Würde es jetzt noch im Angebot kaufen.

Where do i start. I really like Game Maker. I using it since GameMaker 8. It got so much great new features and addition. The best one was the added "more object oriented programming like" things for creating lightweight but powerfull constructors. I really like to use them for the most time to save space and keep the code clean but understandable. GameMaker has its own coding language called "Game Maker Language" which is really easy to learn but is also able to create high complexity for youre games.

So whats the deal with GameMaker?
- already included sprite editor
- code completion system which is called Feather
- jsdoc features (for documenting code you create. Will all beshown in Feather code completion)
- Creating custom shader via code inside GameMaker (I never created a custom shader because i dont needed it for now. There are preset shader included in the rooms)
- Tileset editor (import tilesets and set these up, many options to customize how tiles being painted with a custom brush or drawn)
- Sound editor (import sounds and tweak settings)
- Font editor (basically you choose a font and you define the characters that are able to be drawn)
- Room editor (where you create the levels, supports layering for all different assets)
- Sequence editor (for creating animations, or value based animations. Dont know how its called)
- Debug mode or manager
- ... and much much more (cant list everything here)

Wishes for the future:
- Built in gui editor (planned for 2024 if i heard that right)
- 3d editor ...maybe? (3d games are still possible but is not that easy like in unity or godot for example)

One Day I'll Win A Game Of The Year Award.

So you wanna make some games huh? This engine is great for starters. It uses its own language, Game Maker Language (GML), a very high level language which structure is a bit similar to C++ and C#. It has a drag and drop mode where even a baboon can use to make something similar to Flappy Bird, but honestly, it's quite lacking if you wanna make a good and original commercial game and hence you'll have to code (I personally don't use drag and drop at all).
There's a wide range of tutorials on the web, specially free ones on youtube, which I personally recommend Heartbeast's and Shaun Spalding's tutorials, the latter being an ex-employee from YoYo Games.
If you're starting a small team to develop an indie game, this is a great engine for it, some hit games made with it are: Hyperlight Drifter, Hotline Miami, Rogue Legacy, Undertale, Forager, and the list goes on. So if you want to make your first commercial game (which I guess would be 2D), you can't go wrong with this engine, but if you are an experienced game developer who wants to make a big 3D game, then why the ♥♥♥♥ are you reading this? You probably already know everything that I've typed here and that you'll find limitations within this engine in that case. So in short for full-blown indie games this is much better then a more complex engine, such as Unity or UDK, but for a 3D AAA or Indie AAA-Wannabe game, GMS 2 won't do it tbh.
GMS 2 is totally worth the price, even though there are free engines out there (e.g. Godot), I don't think they have the same community and amount of good tutorials on the web.
For the COMPLETE beginners: please know that this is a proper professional game engine, being a huge step above from softwares such as RPG Maker / Visual Novel Maker, there are no pre-made assets or mechanics*, so for a commercial game you will have to code and make your own art. Therefore, if you just wanna make one of those cashgrab perverted hentai games, go with the ASCII RPG Maker or Visual Novel Maker... No judgement here, sex sells, Morty.

* Edit: I misstyped that there were "no custom assets", I actually meant there are no stock assets.

Went from working in a hotel to becoming a full-time game developer thanks to GameMaker.

10/10 would change my life again.

This game feels really unfinished, I practically had to make it myself.

Definitiv eine der Besten Game Engines die es gibt! simpel zu verstehen, gutes interface, und man muss nichtmal Programieren können um mit Game maker was anfangen zu können!
(Obwohl mir das Programieren persönlich besser gefällt)

Top Programm 10/10

So i have more than 1000 hours in gms2, the non-steam version and gms1.4 combined, and it's honestly great.

I've wanted to make games for a long time, but i was always turned off by the fact that programming is pretty difficult. gamemaker language was REALLY easy to learn, though. I basically followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB2alpO62GM. He goes really in-depth about all the basics, and it's great for beginners. I actually watched a few parts before deciding to buy gms 1.4, but decided that even *I* would be able to understand this (it's really simple), and just followed along.

After a while of following tutorials, you can just kind of get started by yourself! It's really amazing to just be able to make whatever you feel like, with no real limits. (ive even seen people make 3d games, although its not recommended). The reddit and discord commmunity are also really helpfull when you have questions!

The ui is quite pretty. I've seen people use skins to change it, but the default I think is quite nice to look at.

So far I've really just been doing smol games, and it's a lot of fun. There's definiitely nothing stopping you from making a bigger game, though, apart from your motivation. If you're curious, these are some of the games made with GMS: https://www.yoyogames.com/showcase

You can also pick up a 1 year license for 30 euro, if this price on steam is too much. https://www.yoyogames.com/get.

Well, I just reached 300 hours so I might leave a little review.

This product is great for beginners who want to get into game development. There are lots of tutorials on YouTube, which teach you how to use GML and give you valuable tips. Although GML has some limitations, you will be able to make almost every one of your ideas possible.

Knowing how to program is not a necessity but some basic knowledge of coding would help a lot. Game Maker Studio 2 does offer a non-coding solution with a drag and drop system, which I personally have never used. But learning how to program with GML is not that difficult compared to other programming languages. It took me roughly 60 to 80 hours to get a good understanding of how GML works. So you definitely need to invest some time into learning this programming language.

I personally started with some tutorials on YouTube and just followed along, which helped me a lot and gave me the understanding of how it functions. After that, I tried to make my own little games with no tutorials, just with what I learned. The result of that was a Space Invader clone, which surprisingly worked quite well.

Then I tried working on bigger projects which also took more time to finish (if finishing is the right word). My biggest project to this day has been an action top down game, for which I took inspiration from games like Diablo and RogueLikes. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to finish it but I still published it. It took me roughly half a year to complete.

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A great improvement with minor flaws.

This new version of GameMaker Studio is great, it offers opportunities for absolute beginners and but is also great for professional projects! If you are a developer you should definitely consider this product as it cuts down time immensely. I only noticed some minor flaws to the previous version like small features went missing but I'm sure they will be readded soon.

If you aren't sure if you should buy it: Do it.