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Who needs game maker when we have godot, etc?

people who want console support without paying a third party company to port their game, for starters

True, you pay them instead of Godot. Unless your third party company is w4games, then you're just paying godot with extra steps.

Who needs Lego when you can buy a welder in a supermarket?

Not I

Different strokes for different folks. It’s like asking why we need PowerPoint when we’ve got LibreOffice.

LibreOffice is a substandard imitation. Godot is more powerful than Gamemaker. It can do anything Gamemaker can do and it’s free.

Godot is definitely far more powerful but it has a higher learning curve.

Gamemaker is far easier for beginners who are making that Gamemaker type of game (typically top-down, pixel-art for graphics, etc).

That is true. It’s just an unfortunate that GameMaker is the one of the that isn’t open source

That is the problem actually. You don't always need powerful.

Who needs Vue when we have React? Who needs Javascript when we have Typescript? Who needs MariaDB when we have MySQL? Who needs Docker when we have Podman? Who needs Burger King when we have McDonalds? Who needs Wish.com when we have Amazon?

...

MariaDB is MySQL.

#notmysql

Who needs Java when we have C#?

Who needs C#? Nobody.

Who needs Python when we have machine code?

Who needs programmers when we have GPT?

The point is that this is still proprietary, but we already have FOSS that does the same thing. Who needs AIX and HP-UX when we have Linux and BSD? Who needs leaded gas when we have unleaded gas?

Can Godot export to mobile/console/etc easily?

There are some versions issues, and you need ask somebody to configure pipeline for you (install Android Studio, Xcode, VSC, etc, figure out how to work with it, etc), but overall answer - yes, you could choose version of Godot, which will easily export to mobile/console, after ONCE spent time to configure pipeline.

Sure, once will appear new release, too different, so will need again do pipeline configuration.

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