The company behind Pixel Game Maker will use Godot as a base for their next engine, Action Game Maker - eviltoast
ACTION GAME MAKER - First Producer’s Letter for ACTION GAME MAKER - Steam News
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First Producer’s Letter for ACTION GAME MAKER Hello everyone, my name is Morino and I am the producer for ACTION GAME MAKER. I’m planning to do a series of these letters as we move towards ACTION GAME MAKER’s release, and I’d like to start off by providing some information about our thoughts regarding this process and how it effects our existing tools. This new title is indeed part of our long-running Maker series, and is designed to be the successor to Pixel Game Maker MV.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/16870410

However, despite all the attention Godot has been receiving, the switch from Godot 3 to Godot 4 called for the removal of Godot’s visual scripting system. This presented us with an amazing opportunity. We knew we needed to provide more to our users, and now Godot was lacking in a function that we know really well! And that’s how the current plan was kicked off.

Makes me wonder if they’ll do something similar for RPG Maker if AGM does well enough commercially, since the RPG Maker Unite, which was supposed to work with Unity, died thanks to that charge the devs per-install kerfuffle.

  • sleepyTonia@programming.dev
    12·
    4 months ago

    So they’re just full-on saying that they’ll be using an open-source engine’s code to clear out 90% of the work for their next 50+$ “engine”? That’s legal I guess, but it’ll be ‘classy’ as hell if they don’t contribute back some code. I wonder if they did so for Coco2D.
    Edit: They open-sourced Pixel Game Maker MV under the MIT license after its sales died down, for what it’s worth.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devOP
      6·
      4 months ago

      Kinda funny that their selling point now could be taken as “It’s GDevelop/Construct3, but with native compilation instead of electron”

      Also, apparently their PGM would only build for Windows and Web? It feels really dumb to use javascript and have such a platform limitation