2015 is a special year for indie development.
Gamemaker started the movement a few years back, offering the indie development community or hobbyist a platform to ease themselves into game development. Although limited to mainly 2D games, it birthed a generation indie developers and budding bedroom hobbyists, making games, even some that earned commercial success.
Unity continued a trend by offering a 3D game development engine for FREE, with the ability to go to mobile platforms, consoles and high-end PCs.
The recent Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2015 in San Francisco, saw three landmark announcements by Unity, EPIC(Unreal Engine) and Valve (Source Engine). All three companies released their full free versions of their development platform to the general public (albeit with some caveats).
I just started diving into Game Development using Game Maker Studio, seems easy to pick up but I know I will hit its limitations very soon. Game Maker Language has plenty of tools, but I want to be able to learn a more powerful development platform.
Now I have choices, Unity vs Unreal vs Source....
2 comments:
So nice of them to do this. Now you have choices! :)
All the best! Gambatte! :)
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