Hello. I have used gamemaker studio many years ago, when I was 15, to create a pletform puzzle game, then I created some Tomb Raider 4 and Age of Empires II mods with the level editors and some extra mesh editor, then I created a small point and click adventure. I know the basics of programming and I know well what a 3D CAD is, but I’m not experienced. I always wanted to add games creation in my life and now I decided to do it, but not as my primary interest, but as an extra hobby. I think I want to be create mostly puzzle platform games with unusual elements. Mayby some day I’ll want to create a point&click adventure -platform-RPG game, another time a game with magic which transforms the player or the enemies completely to something different, with weird moves each time (or transforms the kind of game), depending on some choices. So I want an engine that gives me the freedom to do whatever I want, that’s why unreal engine is in my list. On the other hand I don’t know if it’s a good choice since I want to be able to implement my ideas fast (like said, game design won’t be my main occupation). I want to spend time learning it, but not so much time that I’ll be able to implement my ideas well after years (incouding 3D Cad & programming learning, that could happen). I just watched this (Unreal Engine 4 - Making a 2D Platformer in UE4 - Full Length - YouTube) tutorial and I found it complex enough, especially after the middle and especially the programming part. Maybe at the beggining I’d prefer to use some things allready made by others and the challange to be how to edit them to get what I want rather than create everything from the beggining, and I as I progress I want to engine to give me the ability to delve more. I have a preferance to open source apps. At the moment I’m trying to choose between unreal engine, godot and gamemaker studio 2 (it’s not open source and that’s a cons).
I think that, choosing unity and choosing to learn 3D creation too, will make things complex enough (I’ll still have to get adept with a 3D Cad) that it’s better to choose the most complex unreal engine to have an extra motivation that things are so complex because I’m learning the best. But I doubt it’d worth for me because my main target is to have a means to express my ideas, not to be an expert in graphics and effects.
What is your opinion?
gamemaker studio quite limited stuff if you want to have advanced 3D functions you need a modern engine 2D today are 3D dressed as 2D…pixel art with video cards of tomorrow adios pixel art