{"id":1205470,"date":"2023-11-22T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1205470"},"modified":"2023-11-22T12:27:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:27:28","slug":"gamemaker-makes-its-2d-engine-free-for-tinkering-100-for-non-console-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1205470","title":{"rendered":"GameMaker makes its 2D engine free for tinkering, $100 for non-console games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Risk of Rain<\/em> was the work of two college students and GameMaker. (credit: Gearbox Publishing)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

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Up until this year, game engines were not something most gamers had to give much thought to, beyond the one or two seconds their logos might appear while a game was loading.<\/p>\n

That changed this fall, when popular pick Unity went from a remarkable anybody-can-make-a-game tool<\/a> to a developer-enraging<\/a>, threat-generating<\/a>, CEO-resignation<\/a> mess. CD Projekt Red, maker of The Witcher <\/em>and Cyberpunk 2077<\/a>, <\/em>made a point of stating that its next games would be built with the Unreal Engine<\/a>, not its in-house REDengine. After Cities: Skylines 2 <\/em>launched with notably rough performance<\/a>, deep decompilation analysis<\/a> found a bunch of seemingly Unity-related, or at least Unity-adjacent, issues.<\/p>\n

That’s why this news about another big change in a popular game engine is so striking: it’s generally good. GameMaker (formerly Game Maker Studio), a 2D engine that was acquired by browser firm Opera in 2021<\/a>, has simplified its licensing structure, declaring it “Free for Non-Commercial Use<\/a>.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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