GameMaker is going free for non-commercial use

https://gamemaker.io/en/blog/gamemaker-free-platforms

Plus switching from the subscription model to a one-time fee for commercial PC-only license. Nice.

I enjoyed this part of the announcement:

We have seen other platforms making awkward moves with their pricing and terms, so we thought, what if we did the opposite

I wonder who they could possibly be referencing 🤔

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saffron@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This is so great for people like me who will never ever make any games worth selling 🙃

teahands@mastodon.gamedev.place · 8 pts · 2y

@saffron That's the spirit 😂

ihopethisisnotawful@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Funny, I was looking at the gamemaker pricing earlier this week and thinking about how it was absurd to be a subscription

TeaHands@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Perhaps losing you was the final straw that convinced them to change

ihopethisisnotawful@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

Oh no I hadn't used it before

Linkyu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Well that was unexpected! I'm glad to see them go back to a one-time fee, that previous switch was basically the final nail in the coffin that cemented my migration to Godot at the time

TeaHands@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Encouraging to see that lessons can still be learned, at least!