GameSalad vs Unreal Engine 4

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.

Blueprints are authoring tools designed for non programmers so designers and other team members can help tweak and prototype. UE4's Blueprint scripts resemble flowcharts where each box represents a function or value, with connections between them representing program flow. This provides a better at-a-glance indication of game logic than a simple list of events, and makes complex behaviors easier to accomplish and games a lot faster to prototype.

Epic provides multiple official video tutorials, lots of free example projects and content, an extensive wiki and regular streams showing how to use latest features.

Allows a texture/material artist or VFX artist to create amazing effects from the ground up.

The engine, including full access to source code, is free to use; a 5% royalty is due only when you monetize your game or other interactive off-the-shelf product and your gross revenues from that product exceed $1,000,000 USD.

UE4 gives full access to the C++ source code allowing editing and upgrading anything in the system.

Voxel cone tracing is a similar algorithm to ray tracing, but uses thick rays instead of pixel thin rays to be able vastly decrease the amount of computational power needed.

Unreal Engine 4 is one of the best game engines. It is super easy. It dosent require any use of coding due to Animation Blueprints

This engine exports for a big range of platforms including Linux. The editor can be run on Windows, MacOS, and Linux (Early Access).

Forums have many active and friendly members that are quick to respond and help out. Even staff is very active on forums.

This is ready to make the next AAA game.

Recompiling an entire game to test a small change takes up a lot of time. UE4 quickly compiles in seconds instead of minutes improving iteration time by an order of magnitude.

New feature releases can be commonly expected about once a month.

Almost everything a game developer wants has a deep and sophisticated tool waiting for them in UE4. No external plugins are needed to make powerful materials, FX, terrain, cinematics, gameplay logic, AI, animation graphs, post process effects, lighting etc.