RichHopefulComposer
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Everyone's talking about GameMaker's new payment model right now....I can see the pros and cons of it, and overall I'm mostly happy/okay with the change. The one thing that worries me about it, and seems to worry a lot of people is "what about hobbyists and people who just want to do Game Jams a few times a year?" It feels like they might be left behind to me, which would be too bad, but I just saw an interesting conversation on Twitter:
So...YYG probably doesn't want to do a free version that exports exes, because then there'd be no incentive at all for a lot of users to use anything else; most hobbyists are only going to export to Windows desktop. But what about introducing a filetype that can only be opened using GM, like a YYZ, but read-only? People could post those and stuff on the GMC for gamejams and among developer friends for play testing, but anyone serious at all about development would still want to upgrade so they could post exe's to Twitter and itch.io and stuff like that. I dunno, I thought it was kind of an interesting an idea, so I figured I'd share it and see what you guys thought.
So...YYG probably doesn't want to do a free version that exports exes, because then there'd be no incentive at all for a lot of users to use anything else; most hobbyists are only going to export to Windows desktop. But what about introducing a filetype that can only be opened using GM, like a YYZ, but read-only? People could post those and stuff on the GMC for gamejams and among developer friends for play testing, but anyone serious at all about development would still want to upgrade so they could post exe's to Twitter and itch.io and stuff like that. I dunno, I thought it was kind of an interesting an idea, so I figured I'd share it and see what you guys thought.
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