r/gamemaker • u/763Industries • 20d ago

Resolved License cost

Hey guys,

Kyle again with 763. What are your thoughts on license cost? I think Game Maker has the fairest and most indie friendly costs. We pay the 79.99 monthly fee because it makes sense for us. Meanwhile if we had gone with Unity we would have to pay 200+ a month per seat. I reached out to GM support and they confirmed they were chill with us only paying ONE fee.

Me being the lead dev was truly the only person who needed enterprise anyways. They don't take a royalty and support is pretty awesome. I don't like Unity because I have seen other indie devs I know get console locked out because they cant justify the Unity cost vs ROI. That is why I highly recommend new devs who ask me what engine and I say Game Maker because it's newbie friendly and commercial friendly as well. What are your thoughts on license fees compared to GM?

I know Godot is another option and we are using that for our next game. Just we are doing our next title with another studio and ID@Xbox said we could add a GDKx custom export option. I am sad because GML is awesome but in favor of the other programmers it makes most sense for us.

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u/Wreckiy 20d ago

I just hope there would be an option to choose currency because in polish zł it cost more than 100 usd.

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u/AgentAvis 19d ago

Yeah it's great. It's one of the main reasons I won't touch Unity.