RPGMaker vs Modd.io

You know,RM series' default walk animation only has three frames.If you want to enhance,you have to code by yourself——especially majority of it's user are newbies.

You'll get a bad performance when you have big animations,especially in MV,which can easily change into higher resolution.

None of them have 3D support, it is possible only with manual scripting which could be difficult for beginners.

MV has an export to HTML5 - which can run on any browser including android. It is however not a "native" app export.

Included visual assets within MV have inconsistent presentation. Though RPMMV does contain enough to make a small basic title, the visual assets don't often look like they should be mixed on-screen.

RPG Maker series has only turn based battle systems, unless scripts/Plugins made by the community are used.

Older iterations of RPG Maker use smaller sprite sizes that require manual conversion to use older RTP assets and older assets are more robust.

Over the last updates, many useful features have been removed, making it harder to create more complex games.

Modd.io comes with its own security issues. Many of them have been used to destroy eachother's games, which completely busts your progress on your game unless you have backed it up by exporting it's JSON.

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Each asset is limited to 800kb (except for audio being 3mb) which is okay for simple assets but unacceptable for creating spritesheets for animations or tilesheets for the map.

No matter how well game maps are made, all of them look just not beautiful.

You cannot create a shake effect which is also urgently needed in complex game creation.

Such datatypes as arrays composed of numbers, strings, etc are needed to create complex games but just do not exist in this game engine.

Most of the staff team in the community are constantly behaving like jokers. It just always feels like 80% of the staff team is not the right pick for such a community.

The homepage allows players to join your game, but the way it works is just not good. The "unpopular 0 player" games get less exposure than the popular games. The tier system also puts a star on your game card which also lures players to your game making them think this game has a special event or something, giving a disadvantage to the less popular games which are still so called "Tier 1".

This engine is ready to use right away, but already starts dropping framerate at over 1000 units which are not very active.

Modd.io "tiers" all the games you create. The very basic tier, commonly called "Tier 1" is very limited and removes motivation to develop a game.

This engine has it's own IDE with a drag and drop style programming language. It does take a good 2 hours to get familiar with the API..

You cannot access lower-level APIs through this engine, such as the renderer.

All games in modd.io must support multi-player game mode.

Modd.io is designed to be good at making "specific" kind of multiplayer games. Its strength unleashes if you don't care too much about the specifics in UI. For example, if you wanted to make a casual death match game, it is extremely easy to make it using modd.io. However, if you want to create a puzzle game with a unique UI, it becomes very time consuming.

This engine is limited to 2D only.