GameMaker VS Godot: I remade my Game

Godot vs Game Maker
Now that I have made what is essentially the same game in both Game Maker and Godot, I feel like I am now qualified to talk about how the two game engines compare. Of course this is only my opinion please don't hurt me.
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[@jamesloymartin]

Your real voice is fine and a lot easier to understand than the robot.

[@MasterAlbert]

Thanks so much

[@xfadedxshadow]

i personally like the robot one but your voice is fine either one will work i would just do whatever your comfortable with cause i'm not going anywhere lol

[@onydjjossjoss]

Yeah continue with your real voice! This is great

[@sicfxmusic]

Nothing against his soothing voice but It's a funny skit so I prefer robot voice for that part

[@john_smith_john]

it would be, if he'd speak louder than a quiet mumble.

[@jenus358]

Could not agree more with this. I only got into gamedev because of GameMaker two years ago but I switched to Godot a year after that. Godot is just so much more practical with its nodes, but I needed GameMaker to learn the basics of coding before getting into Godot.

[@whwjsjhsj]

I can't lie, at first i start with godot, i don't understand coding like at all, my school never teach coding, so i learn by myself. And it's HARD, first week trying the engine, i don't understand godotscript at all, i know how the engine work how to do this and that but nope for the code, the godot tutorial on youtube don't have many tutorial like other engine softwares, i wanna learn c# for unity but ppl said it's harder than gdscript (?) And my potato laptop still can't run unity, So i change to gamemaker studio 2 instead, and, there's so many videos about gamemaker coding, it's easier to learn, after 1 year using game maker i switch back to godot, it's kinda help me the code a little bit

[@joshgibbons-eyre8697]

GameMaker will always hold a special place in my heart, being my first introduction to coding. If I were to ever teach my kids how to code I'd 100% start with GMS2 then switch to Godot when I think they're ready.

[@mahmoudelmasry321]

I hate coding but I want to use gamemaker2 So what should I do?

[@GamerYouTubik]

@@mahmoudelmasry321 learn coding and realize how fun it is

[@deezburr]

@@mahmoudelmasry321 Godots easier than GMS2 100%

[@Spooky90097]

@@deezburrcap picked gm2 in 2 hours. Barely can learn Godot.

[@ButWhyLevin]

After starting with Gamemaker and trying other engines (eventually moving to Unity) the one thing that made it absolutely impossible for me to go back to Gamemaker was the total lack of an inspector. Also nodes or components in Unity are incredibly useful, c# is pretty nifty and I like being able to use Scene view while running the game. Great video by the way, subscribed

[@MasterAlbert]

Thanks bro! for me that might have been a good thing when I was a total beginner. but now I also need that inspector lool

[@testhekid]

at first i thought the difference will be in the sprites and resources, but this is even better love the humour please continue

[@scroobboi2254]

This is god tier editing also congrats having 1k subs

[@llamaz6731]

I can agree, probably the biggest crux in godot is how nodes and scripts and everything interacts with other ones, it can get really messy if you don't plan correctly

[@iwantcake7703]

Lmao this better go viral just bc of the intro

[@MasterAlbert]

haha! ikr, i poured my heart and soul into acting

[@ThisChannelViolatedGuidelines]

Thank you for this video! The information was very clear and organised, and you didnt seem to really have a bias. You're voice is also really pleasant to listen to :)

[@MasterAlbert]

awww thank you

[@superbeef150]

Thanks a ton for this comparison. I'm starting a new game for the first time in years and was on the fence between these two (also because I'd used Gamemaker quite a bit in the past) and this helped a lot.

[@humadi2001]

The introduction was legendary😂, Also your voice is practicing over time👍🏻

[@slumberstudio4757]

man when u said we are poor, i cant even be mad, and just start laughing.

[@MasterAlbert]

lol! gottem! i was just kidding tho, im kind of a poor boy myself :)

[@NinjafoxYT791]

@@MasterAlbert lol

[@Rssks]

I've been using both of them for years, long story short: you are 100% accurate.

[@iminumst7827]

I was experienced with Gamemaker and tried looking into Godot but was turned off based on my difficulties setting up signals and communications, plus the issues I had trying to override Godot's built-in physics with my own engine. This video made me reconsider trying Godot in the future, but for now I'm sticking with what I'm comfortable with until I can publish a GMS game I'm proud of.

[@0x44_]

Great intro! 😂 - Also your voice is fine! Good work and appreciate the take. I'm going to stay with GameMaker simply because of exporting to consoles. I hate their UI (or lack thereof), but suits me for the long run.

[@nickbandy5243]

Looking at this as someone who has no experience in programming it's nice to hear that you started in GMS because that's exactly what I'm about to. Great video.

[@tauheedgamedev2388]

Nice comparison, I started learning Godot recently and its definitely a lot easier to learn then Unity.

[@caleb9274]

I love how he just has a bass on the ground

[@MasterAlbert]

bass floor gang

[@AkshayDidIt]

6:46 Shots fired! Also, GM2 is now subscription based, making it even less worthy to me, atleast for the foreseeable future.

[@MasterAlbert]

oooh yeah I did see a shaun spalding video about that.. good thing I already had the permanent license.. you know.. in case I ever needed to update one of my games

[@AkshayDidIt]

@@MasterAlbert beginning my journey in Godot (gdscript) :)

[@tkeleth2931]

"Software as a service" needs to die in a fire forever. Nobody would ever agree to buy a car if the manufacturer could remotely stop your car on the side of the road, switch out your interior for a completely different one, swap the motor to a "supposedly" better one but with all its own problems, and then *sue you into the ground* if you swapped it back to the old version. lol / notlol

[@bullshitdepartment]

@@tkeleth2931 anon, I.... [tesla] [any electric car in the future] [right to repair fading]

[@BrannoDev]

I also tried godot back in 2017 when it was version 2.1. Couldn't get into it either and ended up using GMS2 very off and on for the next 3 years. Tried it again in 2020 with 3.2 and never looked back. While V3 has substantially improved godot, i think that the truly big improvement was the education options available for learning the engine. 2017 you got an extremely basic demo and a response to 'read the docs'. 2021 you have many step by steps tutorials that you get pretty far into a prototype before you start your own projects.

[@Vysair]

Learn GDScript from Zero is a must use resource for this. It can be run on your browser, no installation required

[@isuperfy]

Very nice video! Explains the pros in both engines very well.

[@Nanain]

Love it! You are so easy to watch - I have ADHD, so keeping my attention can be problematic! Great humour & really useful info - thank you!

[@hippocrates72]

*Complexity & Versatility:* _Construct2/3 < GameMaker < GoDot < Unity < UnrealEngine4/5_

[@g0ldhat55]

Epic also congarts on 1k man :D

[@jacktherabbit2238]

Thx for the vid man was considering going back to game maker but it has been years sticking w/godot

[@david3pabon]

“So, if you have a low spec PC, which I know you do 'cause you're poor” 😂😂😂 nailed it!

[@onerimeuse]

I think your deadpan way of dropping jokes is hilarious, personally. I'd say keep on talking!

[@punkseth1]

u r so funny i love ur style and charisma very enjoyable watching i will watch more of ur video if u talk like this and do game dev

[@nb4powerup]

This video is amazing and underappreciated. Thank you!

[@xezzee]

My experiences with GoDoT vs GameMaker: Gamemaker was easy to pick up and use. Everything was almost ready and you can start to build from blocks immediately. The block system is simple to understand and use and you can easily make game. There is so much automation with the blocks which is the default it gives. Never tried coding GoDoT was interesting learning process and my 0.0.3 game now has jump, attack and enemy which can die. More or Less what I did with Gamemaker. Once you learn the Node system and understand that you can Pause a Tree which pauses whole game and make menu easily that way you will start to see why people prefer GoDoT. The learning curve to make Area2D which you you set disable false true on the area2D's collision to make attacks and learning all the random stuff like coding x___x or what I did was simple code that set Horizon H flip true and false and at one point it just broke.... and I don't know why. annoying :D Then I had problem enemies moving with me and jumping. I never coded them to jump.... 3 days later the were under the Player's node x____x no wonder they were moving With me and by them self. this caused some interesting glitches like warp speed running because when you are on top of them they moved you and you moved them which caused them to accelerate until we flew off the map

[@jeson9962]

How do you program with Dyslexia?

[@xezzee]

@@jeson9962 hope it works or spend 5x time fixing the stuff ^_^ or use blciks to code like in gamemaker... GoDoT you can use vidua scripting but don't know how good it is. Basically just don't make mistakes.

[@thomasrosebrough9062]

Why did you capitalize "Godot" like that?

[@sasino]

"I'm not saying Godot is better than Game Maker, but it is" - Master Albert

[@chizuru1999]

Same dude... I just installed game maker today and it was great. I have never felt making a simple game so easily. Feel like I will just switch to godot after trying a bit of game maker.

[@torq21]

Your English and voice are fine and your sense of humor really domes across well. Keep it up.

[@MasterAlbert]

Thank you

[@carloshmrocha]

Cool video! Thanks for sharing your experience!

[@oliveralbon3990]

Your English is great! Definitely a big step up from text to speech. Enjoyed the vid.

[@JuhoSprite]

1:39 the particles here on the right look amazing, would you mind making a tutorial on particles imilar to that when ur moving around?

[@soleypas]

Your English is awesome! Subbed!

[@Nyltoons1]

Great work on the comparison of the 2 game engine, I was using unity before but after switching to godot I never looked back. Also when I saw the "orig ang pinoy" T-shirt at the beginnning, i was surprised that you are also a filipino. Keep up sa channel idol ang gaganda at educational ng contents mo!!! :))))

[@MasterAlbert]

Thanks brad

[@ami7mina]

"Even your mom is a node" ahahaha! Thanks for this. starting my own game.

[@abdullaalrashidi3828]

bro , I really loved your game .. Im waiting for the next update

[@jugibur2117]

Thanks the comparison! What I unfortunately find disadvantageous from Godot 4 onwards is the size of the output files for HTML games. This was even better with version 3.

[@dugtrioramen]

About instances being easily accessible. I've found that the 1 to 1 feature in Godot would be just assigning groups. It helped me stay comfortable while I slowly learned and transitioned to the Tree and Signal structure for node in get_tree().get_nodes_in_group(): is the same as with(object) {}

[@AngryhammerGames]

Lol, that was mad funny and informative. Thanks!

[@dreddbolt]

Yuuuup. I'm going with the poor option. I might check out how to do terrain in GMS2, but I think my brain would be considerably less irritated by Godot.

[@nathanesposito7048]

Hey man thanks for the video! I'm looking to get started on makinga game.. very basic knowledge of coding, would you say start on GSM2 and then move to Godot once I have enough knowledge or should I just start on Godot and take the plunge?? Thanks!

[@dropit7694]

Do you think your experience with GM has made you understand Godot better? Or would you say use Godot straight away? Coming from someone who has yet to complete a project in either. Nice comparison vid and entertaining

[@lewis4929]

Great breakdown dude. Loved the vid

[@MasterAlbert]

Thanks bro

[@lastgamedev6754]

I love your sprites😍

[@Crisisdarkness]

Wow, your introduction was very funny, Hehe good video, you did quite well, your plan now is to complete that video game moving forward with Godot?, this is great news, without any doubt I will play it. Similar to you, what initially cost me to understand were the signals, but thanks to some practical projects I was understanding

[@MasterAlbert]

thanks bro im glad you liked it :D . Yes I am planning to keep the development of Polaris in Godot. let's keep grinding!

[@danielfoutz]

Maraming salamat! I've used Gamemaker for a few years now and have tried dipping my toes into Godot but bounced off of it because the workflow feels so different from what I'm used to. That frustrated me because I saw so many videos talking about how Godot was easier to use and more intuitive, which I didn't find to be the case. Maybe next game jam I'll try breaking in Godot properly to see if I can change my old ways.

[@whwjsjhsj]

Same, they said it's beginner friendly engine, but no, the fact it's free and having cute logo making me more thinking it's for a beginner, but's it's not, after switch to game maker and then come back to godot, i think godot is much better, if you understand how it works. I can understand why people switch to godot, when you have experience with different engine then back to godot, godot looks so much easier, idk why, it's weird tho when you start with it, it looks so hard, maybe cuz the tutorials are hard to understand or it's not that much tutorials out there, i've seen much better game maker / other engine tutorials than godot

[@MyFirstHandle]

Are you Filipino? I'm also Filipino too and I use Godot a lot. I've released some games as well :)

[@MasterAlbert]

Hey bro! Yes I am. Glad to see more Filipino Godot enjoyers :)

[@betterteen]

can you make a tutorial about the dialog and the player movement because I have been searching for that for a while like i was learning for over a year now and cannot do it really cool like that .so if you can make a tutorial it would be really helpful. anyways best wishes for you make more awesome games like that.

[@Roguedeus]

Lol... Thanks for this video. It really helped me gain some clarity.

[@mitochondria1of1]

nice vid bro. imma late for this video. much respect from PH!

[@jakep8484]

If game maker fixed a couple of things and went back to one time purchase and being to run full version offline they would have a lot more customers.

[@ajinkyax]

Game maker is free now. Also has a 1 time purchase.

[@tailuigi]

I haven't tried it for myself (and probably never will - I got into Game Maker over 10 years ago, and don't think I could start learning something else from scratch now), but the mention of Godot's integrated UI features is actually something I'm skeptical of - if it's built-in, that suggests you have limited control over how it's displayed, how it functions, and what it can do. I'm wary of engines which have things done for you, because it tends to mean less control and less versatility. Unrelated, I've stuck with GMS 1.4, and am horrified to see how much the layout has been mangled in GMS 2.

[@adriansousa7278]

Parabéns cara pelos seus mil inscritos vc merece

[@MasterAlbert]

Muito obrigado! É tudo por causa do seu apoio.

[@adriansousa7278]

Valeu e os seus gráficos tam muito top agora kk

[@meatbleed]

I'm a "stick with what you know" type of person but I think this'll get me to switch to Godot. Seeing hour-long Game Maker tutorials teaching me stuff that's built in to other engines makes me want to die. Good video

[@user-do5zj6xj2y]

laughed multiple times during this video, ty.

[@DevlogBill]

Hi Albert, Question? For someone who has never made a video game before but has about 8 months of coding experience with Web Development with JavaScript, HTML, CSS and PHP. I just want to make a 2D classical RPG action game, kind of like World Of Warcraft but in 2D. Since I have ZERO experience in making games. But have some coding skills. Would you recommend I still try game maker? Or go with Godot? I ask because I don't know if Godot has a steep learning curve. Watching your video, it sounds like when you first started making games that Godot had a steep learning curve so which would you recommend with what I had told you about my skill level? Thank you, Albert and very cool video!

[@3iknet327]

You just helped me decide on GameMaker lol

[@DexFire1115]

"It's not about the engine" Me who has been using Scratch for 7 years and needs to escape...

[@BGDMusic]

i started my game dev journey with gamemaker :) and i don't use it anymore because i don't like it but it's very very cool and i think it's a good start i should check out godot actually, but i'd rather stick with what i have, but there is another engine i want to check out eventually too

[@aarikaanil6546]

Very Understandable Comparison. I was also very confused I am clear now

[@fernandaagostinho4751]

Soooo good mate !!! thanks for the video !

[@MasterAlbert]

thank you! Im glad you liked it

[@MisterNewYear]

you can't understate how important the idea of signals instead of directly referencing instances is. I have been trying to switch over and it's killing me. and renaming files/scenes or even just moving them around in your project file is horrible so I can't even fix my mistakes lmao

[@marsellusbrel]

what did you say about my mom

[@ajinkyax]

Hi i shifted from pygame to Godot 1 month ago. Godot has a free dialogue manager dialogic. Now I know even gamemaker is free to use. Can you recommend Game maker compared to Godot 4 ?

[@corvidcosmo]

I tried using Godot but didn’t get far, I’ll probably try it again once I have more experience in game design. Btw I find it funny because I found out the sprite editor I use to make the animations and all is actually made from Godot’s engine. (Yeah I don’t use gamemaker’s sprite editor for some reason)

[@tralexium]

Your voice is loud and clear, adds a lot of personality to your vids as well. I'd like to see you using more often 🙂

[@bhBlacky82]

how is godot performing when doing something multiplayer? GMS2 should be quite easy in that regard, but does godot also offe a simple solution for MP?

[@Nicolai9933]

Another advantage with godot over gm is that you are allowed to make erotic and gamble games which isn't allowed by the devs of gm!

[@MasterAlbert]

now that is new info for me.... good thing I didn't make those in gm........... yet

[@b4ph0m3tdk9]

Wonderful voice, no problem there.

[@leslieviljoen]

Why do objects need to be wired together in Godot? Isn't that unnecessary overhead? Or is it actually useful?

[@nightnol]

Your normal voice is far superior. Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@MasterAlbert]

lol thanks bro

[@nagalakshmi5903]

The incredible double action at the intro.

[@MasterAlbert]

lol thanks im glad you liked my acting

[@maccheckster]

Appreciate you dude!

[@aboodispam]

xD the intro had me rolling on the floor

[@Plib]

I like your sense of humor.

[@matthewparker9276]

Godot being so lightweight is hard to wrap my head around. It was the game engine I started with, so I don't have good points of comparison, but when I tried to download unreal on my laptop to participate in some tutorials I realised I would need to delete so much to make room for it I might as well delete windows. I didn't end up installing unreal.

[@Thraakull]

You have pointed out as first the most irritating thing to me that is Godot being unable to have easily accessible variables and the fact that one needs to connect signals and type out paths, while in game maker you have everything easily more accessible mainly the variables, I have been creating small games in game maker like 13 years ago and I still could not wrap my head around the signal thing in Godot, I think that if in the future versions they would make it like in game maker, that is variables not having to connect, then I would be oh so glad since I find it more intuitive. Or hell, even a system which lets you choose a path to a node or a scene via GUI and then types the path or the proper code for you.

[@emakestudioofficial7916]

guys what's the name of the first song played (piano)??

[@urkidden4834]

Congrats mr albert

[@MasterAlbert]

Thank you

[@Questington]

Can you make a video of how you 'migrated' your thinking from GameMaker to Godot. I'm switching at the moment, and I just can't really 'grasp' Godot, with all the signals, drag'n'drop into inspector, and going into Settings menus to enable keys to be pressed etc. In GameMaker I just added an object, attached a script, and wrote in that script and then that' was it. 100% intuitive for me.

[@MasterAlbert]

basically going back to zero and watching tutorials again. check out godot tutorials from heartbeast, they're great. I bought his course, too, it's cheap but you can pretty much learn everything you need to make a complete metroidvania in godot..

[@TheKer7]

I like you, I think I will subscribe too. This my first video, is it the godoT rabbit hole opening that I see here!? (Ex GMer)

[@inhayoo659]

My gamemaker crashed after pressing play then this video popped up on my home page Could i be a sign?

[@voliteon]

This is great. thank you

[@masterick322]

Bro with the free plus was lit

[@Mplopesz]

Wow Godot is HUGE! I'm gonna try it someday!

[@wisemonke6083]

Such a tragic story :( Im sure you are fine now, I hope you get your phone back (P.S. Nice fucking editing in the intro) (P.S. 2. How did you know how my mom looks like??)

[@MasterAlbert]

its easy. I took a picture of Mochi

[@wisemonke6083]

@@MasterAlbert im telling mom

[@kidando]

Hahahaha. Awesome reveal. I feel the same about GM and Godot. Dont go back to the text-to-speech. This is cooler

[@xeviusUsagi]

a little messagge to everyone watching this video. In all the Game maker vs Godot videos I watched there is one pattern I saw. People started with Game maker, then switched to Godot, then never came back. if this doesn't already make it obvious, Godot is grate, and Game maker is perfect for learning and prototypeing. I personally like to use Game maker for very quick protoipeing, and afterwards I turn it in to a full game on Godot. the only big advantage that Game maker has is its exportability, you can play game maker games on PC, Phones and Console and this is a really big thing.

[@BitwiseMobile]

And finally they progress to a real game engine like Unity or Unreal ;)

[@whwjsjhsj]

I start with godot, but idk about programming at all, but first try i think godot is great but the tutorial on youtube is hard to understand, it's a great engine but i don't understand the gdscript, and when you want to move a something you need to code it, i was like how i suppose to do this if i don't understand how it works, i mean i know how it works, like put this and that, the nodes but idk any basic code, i switch to gamemaker for a year, learn how it works (it have so many tutorials) and then back to godot, i understand gdscript now, it feels more comfortable to do things with it and when i try back to gamemaker feels weird, something is missing, probably never come back. Still love both engine, they are part of my game dev journey

[@seditt5146]

Variables editor in GMS is for editing precreation event instance variables. The other variables defined are per object when defined in the creation event. I find this feature rather powerful yet significantly underused however it is extremely flawed in that these variables do not appear in an object created using instance create functions.

[@user-ky9qn4pg3w]

It is amazing when you're teaming up with level designers and want to let them some variables to tweak without touching the code. Unreal engine has the same functionality.

[@Sly14000]

I'm honestly not sure what you mean. I use instance create functions and the code within said created instances fetches the variables set within the variable editor just fine.

[@EIement]

I got recommended this was wondering how does one make good sprites

[@MasterAlbert]

one must watch pixel pete videos

[@wolfboos]

Thanks, and good luck with your projects! Edit: Also yes keep using your own voice, personally I feel like the text-to-speech is just souless. I was able to understand you normally, the way you spoke wasn't unclear in the slightest. (I actually skipped the intro because of this)

[@MasterAlbert]

Thanks so much, it means a lot that youre not cringing at my voice like I am lol

[@wolfboos]

​@@MasterAlbert np :b I know the feeling, hearing my own voice in a recording sounds cringy to me as well. But because of the way you displayed your opinion of both engines, in the back of my mind I didn't care about how you sounded, I cared a lot more that I can understand your words. (From your own voice and not TTS)

[@rarebyn1956]

you somehow exposed me and also convinced me to go godot all in one video, i-

[@sobreaver]

I don't know man, I'd still keep GameMaker on the desktop somewhere, seems to me like she's firm and ready for action o0

[@MasterAlbert]

oh definitely keeping her for backup bro... you never know. wink wink

[@joezuru3753]

although Godot doesn't have a built in pixel editor, the pixelorama plugin it's awesome on it's own

[@Ver2ion]

I keep watching this video thinking how useful nodes would be. Its like having unlimited amount of parent objects without them becoming the child....

[@ami7mina]

Pinoy ka pala. Very admirable that you self taught programming.