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author=blurymind
the price is kind of steep.
They will have a hard time convincing me to drop all the other free or open source options

That is a good point to bring up, there likely is a physics system which is probably Box2D or Google LiquidFun or something custom(hope for the ladder...)

Godot is free, it's very much like game maker if you think about it but it's just a workflow shift. Speaking of Game Maker both will be at the same price point $99/100 so this engine should be priced lower because it's not focusing on a niche like RPG Maker is and also will not likely be as feature rich either... There's still no word if this engine will support GLSL, HLSL, or any shader language.

The only way to test this out is to purchase it, there should be a trial version and I know $100 is nothing but I mean I'm getting a feeling this is just AGM/IGM with javascript plugins for scripting... That's a bad thing btw, the visual scripting/coding system is better than what AGM/IGM had which honestly was nothing as the flow system was only for canvases.

Godot's Visual Script and Unreal's Blueprints and even Constructs event system is a good example of visual programming. I didn't include RPG Maker's event system as it's kinda limited (way less than construct's) as you really can't use array's, data structures, etc.

There's been no mention or update on Twitter for almost 2 weeks, we're probably 2-6 weeks away from the steam early access but I think we should have learned more by now...

GMS2 2.1 has recently been released, every console platform is available or coming soon in case of the Nintendo Switch. Great option, GML is pretty sweet but it's very forgiving so learn to use regions and proper syntax and you'll be fine.

The new room editor is nirvana! The old 1.4 room editor which basically stayed the same since immemorial which did add tilesets (but was just a paid in the arse imho) and even preferred the RPG Maker map editor which since VX has basically been crap!

You can do proper tile collisions with code and collision layer however I find it impractical if you start introducing half tiles, triangular tiles, etc. And o_solid_p and your collision shape object is all you need.

Playism is just handling distribution as Degica just wanted to focus on RM.
The engine is still being made by Kadakowa.

Never followed him but RIP.

Funny thing is there hasn't been anything since May 12th or anything after bit summit.