GameSalad vs GLBasic

The Windows version is now upto date with all the features of its Mac sibling.

Can create and publish games for iOS, Macintosh desktop and laptop computers, Android, Kindle, Amazon FireTV and FireTV Stick, Windows 8 and Tizen devices.

Gamepad support is available as of 0.13.3.

The GameSalad Viewer is a free app available for iOS, Android and Kindle. Once installed on your mobile devices, you can deploy and test your GameSalad games live on any mobile device running the Viewer that is on the same local network as your dev computer.

This even allows Windows users to test their games on iOS devices without a Mac device and without any complicated code signing or provisioning profiles.

And, you can even take your games with you -- once loaded onto your mobile device, a history option caches recent games on your device without any connection to the dev computer.

Since the user mainly uses menu options there is very little code needed to be keyed in. This makes the code very easy to read and understand.
Hence there are many help videos on youtube

Extensive community of seasoned professionals in all disciplines (graphics, game design, animation, physics, music, video production, marketing, etc.) producing tutorials, videos, publishing tips, free templates and who are willing to answer forum questions and help newcomers.

Allows you to create expressions on par with LUA (it's back end-language).

Allows you to import JSON data for custom collision shapes to use with Gamesalad's implementation of Box2d physics.

Software prepares your app so you can just send it to Apple. All my games are reviewed with no problems.

The drag and drop editor makes GameSalad very easy to use, no programming experience needed.

Very quick to learn and great for making games. Community is very open and helpful.

Language is easy to use, with a fast compiler.

Forum support is great. No advertising in program or forums. Company has been going for over 10 years.

Unlike most multi-platform development systems, 3D is available across most of them.

Code can be written once and will work on supported platforms with very little modification.

PC version is free.

Full Multi-platform version requires one-off very reasonable price, and all further updates are free, however you can run a watermarked demo on your chosen platform with the free demo version.

C/C++ code can be included inline or as a DLL/.o/dylib file.

Only problem is position is based on position of previous widget.

Create apps for non commercial 2D programs running on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. The extension to create programs for other platforms, 3D or network applications requires a license key. Otherwise the "Premium" programs are limited to 10 min runtime for test purposes. There is no trial limit for the development environment.

Easy-to-use networking system with either TCP or UDP.

Programmers reference guide, user guide and various others are free.

Viewports, sprites, rotating/animating and zooming sprites, collision detection and pathfinding.