Engine 001 Game Maker vs Modd.io

As it doesn't have enough tutorials, and they don't wanna make more, so they just add some new services about one on one help which that cost 40$ for an hour.

The editor is Windows only, no OSX or Linux versions are planned.

The 3D capabilities of the engine are a bit limited (for today standards), and some of the times you'll need to work around to create something.

Even those few tutorials don't teach you the very basics, and first you must learn the basics somewhere else (the submitted pros are by professional guys).

Just ask them about games made with this engine and you will see that even if you find some good games, those are mostly simple/small ones.

If you want to use more than a few actors/light/events, or you're trying to get a pretty look, you will get a significant drop in frame rates. This is especially true if you want to implement a moving light (something like a flashlight).

If you encounter a bug or problem and report that as bug report, it will take about 1 week to get any answer, and if they solve that, the fixed version will just come up with next update for engine which that isn't be soon and no specific time, so maybe you have to wait for one month.

Sometimes you have to do a time-consuming workaround to just do a simple function.

There are significant drops in frame rate; some bugs that can even ruin your game (also, looks like just run on firefox).

Are you a mobile developer? If so it's good to know that it has export for ios/Android but no support for IAP or Ads.

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.