Game_Maker

Game Maker (often abbreviated to GM) is a Windows and MacOS IDE
originally developed by Mark Overmars in the Delphi programming
language. It is currently developed and published by YoYo Games, a
software company in which Overmars is little involved. It allows users
to quickly create games with little to no programming knowledge, making
it a viable tool for introducing people to programming.

ENIGMA was forged to keep the simplicity, flexibility and standard IDE
format which Game Maker provides except correct some of its major
downfalls in the process. Such as:

• Cross-platform features are implemented quite brutally.
• It has a limited, slow scripting language, which is interpreted, not
  compiled. (It will soon be LLVM, but still not as quick as compiled
  code).
• It's not open source
• It's much more sluggish and larger than necessary. Using
  ENIGMA can result in much smaller and faster
  games.
• It's not free (gratis); the "Lite" (crippled) version is free, but
  the paid version is $49.99 USD.
• Registered users have been targeted as software pirates and have had
  months of work destroyed thanks to their horrible DRM integration.
• It currently has removed all major debugging abilities, making it
  next to impossible to properly test games.
• Studio forces an unnecessary physics engine on all games, even if
  they do not ever use them.
• Lack of proper 3D interfacing, there is no animation support,
  multi-texturing, basic mip-mapping, no anisotropic filtering, and
  next to no trigonometric math functions.
• Lack of good memory management interfacing, most GM games use
  excessive amounts of memory and usually have "leaks"

External links

• YoYo Games — Official website
• 1 — Website forum
• Game Maker Community — Official forum
• YoYo Games Wiki — Official wiki