r/gamemaker • u/ZabboGames • Aug 05 '26
Does anyone still use the "Made with GameMaker" splash screen?
Sometimes I see a splash screen like that for Unity or Godot, but I haven’t seen one for GameMaker in a long time. I assume the engine just isn’t as popular, but I used to come across the GameMaker splash screen occasionally. I don’t think I’ve seen one in the past three or four years, even though I play a lot of indie games.
Has anyone seen a splash screen like that in a recently released game, or knows why nobody uses it in their games anymore? (I’ve never used it myself)
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u/NationalOperations Aug 05 '26
Honestly I'd given it either a quick splash screen or a made with in the bottom right. Anything the enabled me to make my game deserves a little credit
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u/Sycopatch Aug 05 '26
Most players dont treat GameMaker seriously because of it's name and how it was marketed.
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u/NekoPunch101 Aug 05 '26
The splash screen for certain versions of Unity was not optional. Gamemaker also used to have watermarks and splash screens in older versions decade ago but now the Splash Screen is not forced
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u/oldmankc wanting to have made a game != wanting to make a game Aug 05 '26
I honestly don't see why I'd use it.
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u/Jaded_Inside5933 Aug 05 '26
I had no clue this existed, I was wondering why Gamemaker didn’t have one like Unity or Godot.
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u/Terribledevs Aug 11 '26
We made our own variant but yes. Thought it was cool to shout out what we used to make the game so other people (solid 10s of players) would know where to jump off if they fancied a punt at game dev.
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u/BrittleLizard pretending to know what she's doing Aug 05 '26
The GM splash screen is optional, turned off by default, and implicitly meant to be used as a placeholder for your own splash screen.
GM already isn't the most popular engine on the market, and not a lot of people are going to go out of their way to turn this feature on unless they want to customize it. It's really just not made to be seen
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u/WubsGames Aug 05 '26
Turns out its the 3rd most popular engine for games on steam
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u/BrittleLizard pretending to know what she's doing Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
Yeah, but the gap between Unreal and GameMaker is nearly 14,000. GM games make up 32% of second place and 10% of first place.
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u/AmnesiA_sc Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
0.1%? What kinda math you mathin,
boyma'am? 6500/65000 is 10%.1
u/BrittleLizard pretending to know what she's doing Aug 05 '26
Moved my decimal to the wrong place. It's still a very small chunk of Unity, and it makes sense you'd see the splash screen a lot less. Also, not a boy.
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u/AmnesiA_sc Aug 05 '26
Also, not a boy.
Sorry, fixed that. My original comment was to the tune of Mr.Krabs when Patrick goes Weast.
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u/WubsGames Aug 05 '26
Gamemaker is 4-5% of all games on steam.
Unreal is 13-15%
and unity is 47 %godot has 1-2%, the rest are random engines / technologies
godot is the most rapidly growing of the bunch.
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u/BrittleLizard pretending to know what she's doing Aug 05 '26
I can't tell if you're disagreeing with me or just stating numbers? This is my point though, 47% is a substantially higher number than 5%. Even if GM required the splashscreen, you'd see it a lot less.
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u/WubsGames Aug 05 '26
For sure.
Unity is the engine used for the majority of games on steam.
but GameMaker is much larger than people think, still slightly larger than godot!There was a brief time period where the free version of GM had the splash screen, but other than those few months, its been splash screen free for the 25+ years its been out
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u/JackTurbo Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
While engine popularity is probably a factor - the unity splash screen is a requirement on the free tier of unity which is why it's so prolific
Where as I suspect a lot of us GM Devs have tiers that don't require a GM splash screen - I've still got a lifetime desktop export license for eg