About GameMaker: Studio

“GameMaker's systems were easy enough to approach as a novice and are now so second-nature to me that I'm comfortable tackling larger-scale problems that I wouldn't have dreamt of four years ago ” “Using GameMaker's in-built tools let me understand the role they play in game development and gave me the foundations I needed to go on to recreate any of them for myself in larger contexts It was the perfect stepping stone for me to go from knowing nothing to feeling like I am an experienced games programmer ” “GameMaker basically taught me how to make games ” “Everything I know about programming I learned thanks to GameMaker It was my very first coding experience and I'm glad I stuck with it The GameMaker community is also vast and there's tons of content in forums and tutorials, which made the learning process a lot less scary ” “Honestly, without GameMaker, I probably wouldn't even have gotten to the hobby stage of game development It gave me an approachable way to get into game dev and realise my ideas, that I otherwise couldn't have ” “GML is a lot easier to learn than other programming languages ”

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