XanthorXIII
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Would it make sense to drop the 2 from GameMaker and go back to calling it just GameMaker: Studio with versioning being the version that we are on, like 2.3.7? Just a late night thought.
“GameMaker”I have no idea if this falls under speculation, but it'll probably lead to it.
Business-wise I'd imagine they'd choose just Game Maker, if they were to choose anything for a long-term subscription name. That is the actual name of the product, the Studio is just added on as a version of Game Maker. Plus it makes it simpler now it's on a subscription model. Having iterations of a subscription product is always a little strange.
GameMaker is already trademarked by YYG. It says it on the GMS2 splash screen. I imagine it was previously trademarked by Mark Overmars a while back when the program was just called Game Maker. As it wasn't really known by the version number until Game Maker 6 or so. (I.E. the window title was just Game Maker)“GameMaker”
Game Maker is ambiguous and probably extremely hard to trademark.
Although Gary Kitchen released “GameMaker“ in 1985, so I’m probably just full of crap.
Don’t take legal advice from me (or anyone on this forum for that matter)
Yeah, I imagine YYG trademarked it now as the trademark for that should have expired in the early 2000's at the latest.