Okay I have been working with GameMaker again and it's weird how they went through
>one time purchase if you want to export
to
>subscription if you want to export
back to
>one time purchase if you want to export
It's kind of good now but kind of not? They dropped "GameMaker Studio 2" even though the IDE is nearly the same, just call it "GameMaker" now, and now my Pro license doesn't count for the new vanilla "GameMaker" line. Like, okay I can still use GMS2 which they last updated in November 2023, but that will be left in the dust in a few years time, just like GMS1. But nu-GameMaker isn't even a super crazy advancement like it was for GMS1.4 to GMS2, so they literally just rebranded it to get you to fucking pay again! Fucking Opera!!! Bitches!!!
Fun to fuck around in it again but I should just use Godot or learn2code for real I guess
@arc i started learning godot a few days ago, from what i can tell it's good. no license needed.
you could always join the dark side and use rpg maker 
@beardalaxy RPG Maker is siiick though... I got a bunch of them on Steam, but I don't know how good they would be for actiony games, hmm
@arc you can get them to work with actiony systems. actually, i've seen people make stuff like bullet hells and metroidvanias. it's definitely not what the engine was meant for though so you've gotta do a lot of finangling and i've never tried it myself.
i have tried the action battle system scripts, where it still uses all the RPG stats and such but you can swing your sword around on the map and everything. that's pretty cool and honestly not that hard to do, i was making little games like that when i was like 14.
so i guess it depends on what kind of action game you're looking to make. if you're trying to make a platformer, it's better to stick with something else probably. but something like secret of mana would probably work a lot better.
rpg maker is also a one time buy license and it's always been that way, so that's cool. MV and MZ are a lot more editable and use a friendlier coding language (JS). so if you're going to look into one i'd do one of those. MV is going to be better if you're trying to modify the engine a lot and don't want to pay more money for the plugins. the vast majority of MV stuff is free, but with MZ more plugin authors charge for their stuff.
