It gave me an approachable way to get into game dev and realise my ideas, that I otherwise couldn't have. 'Honestly, without GameMaker, I probably wouldn't even have gotten to the hobby stage of game development. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, and a variety of robust tools for plotting, viewing history, debugging and managing your workspace. The GameMaker community is also vast and there's tons of content in forums and tutorials, which made the learning process a lot less scary.' RStudio is a set of integrated tools designed to help you be more productive with R.
It was my very first coding experience and I'm glad I stuck with it. 'Everything I know about programming I learned thanks to GameMaker. 'GameMaker basically taught me how to make games.' It was the perfect stepping stone for me to go from knowing nothing to feeling like I am an experienced games programmer.” “Using GameMaker's in-built tools let me understand the role they play in game development and gave me the foundations I needed to go on to recreate any of them for myself in larger contexts. 'GameMaker's systems were easy enough to approach as a novice and are now so second-nature to me that I'm comfortable tackling larger-scale problems that I wouldn't have dreamt of four years ago.'
