If you want to learn games but don’t know where to start, you found Engine Game Maker Studio and want to learn it but don’t know if you should or not? So I will answer this question for you in this article.
Game Maker Studio
Quickview
Game Maker Studio has 2 versions that are 1 and 2, I call them Game Maker Studio collectively. This Engine is also one of the powerful 2D Engines and has a large community up to the present time. The game projects completed with this Engine also have many famous games such as: Police Stories, Undertale, etc.
Should you learn how to use it?
My answer is ARE NOT and 10% is YESbelow I will explain why:
+ No:
- As you can see at the time of this writing, that is after the golden age of Game Maker Studio. There have been many Engine updates and developments compared to Game Maker Studio with one example being Godot. These Engines have far surpassed Game Maker Studio.
- If you learn other Engines like Godot, Unity it will be many times better than Game Maker Studio and why? Simply because Game Maker Studio can only make games on the 2D platform, not on the 3D platform. If you make 2D games in GMS and make 3D games in Unity, you will have to remember this one and the other leading to confusion because these 2 Engines work differently. So you should still only use the Engine that has both.
- If you don’t know, before 2021, Game Maker Studio was still a paid Engine, but later because of the development of other free Engines, GMS’s position was shaken, so they decided to use it for free. use it.
+ Yes:
- In fact, GMS is still a powerful Engine with many powerful functions such as drag – drop, etc. to be able to make games. If you just want to make 2D games alone, you can choose it.
- Game Maker Studio also has APIs, SDKs, Tools to support you to make games such as Drawing images in Engine, Muliplayer, etc.
So in general, if you want to have a stable job as a game developer in the future, you should not use Game Maker Studio, but if you want to make a part-time indie game, you should use it 🙂
Job opportunity
Regarding jobs, I see that they are mainly recruited abroad, but in Vietnam, there are belts, maybe there are but very few. I don’t think this Engine will have a job in the future because most of Vietnam has Cocos2D to replace Game Maker Studio’s 2D game design position, but that’s my opinion, if something is wrong I Please comment below the comment section.
Summary
Hopefully through this article you have been able to draw what you need and orient which way to go. If you have any questions or comments, you can leave a message in the comment section and I will respond as soon as possible.