Game development insights, tutorials, and updates from the Egmatic team.
GameMaker is free to learn; selling games costs $99.99 once (Professional) with no royalties. Console export needs Enterprise at $79.99/month.
Godot is not too hard for beginners, but it is different. Reaching the point where you finish small complete 2D games takes about 2-6 months of practice.
The fastest way to test a game idea: isolate the one mechanic that must be fun, build the cheapest version, and playtest with players within days.
Blueprints run 10-100× slower than C++. Fix by cutting per-frame Tick, moving hotspots to C++, using soft references, and profiling with Unreal Insights.
A build error stops your game from producing a runnable build. Read the log, fix the first error first — works in Unity, Godot, MonoGame and GameMaker.
MonoGame is a free open-source .NET framework for 2D and 3D C# games, successor to XNA. Build a first project: game loop, textures, a movable sprite.
MonoGame is a free, open-source .NET framework for 2D and 3D games in C#, the community successor to XNA. It is a framework, not an engine, with no editor.
Slow builds come from four stages: asset import, IL2CPP C++ generation, shader variants, or a cold cache. Measure first, then attack that stage.
Small teams win by working fewer things. Hollow Knight, Among Us and Stardew Valley shipped with three or fewer via scope discipline and a vertical slice.
A good-looking 2D scene is four principles, not talent: a clear focal point, depth from layered planes, a limited color palette, and one light source.
A stutter at a scene transition isn't rendering, the transition frame also loads the new scene. Fix it by loading asynchronously ahead and pooling objects.
A node editor builds logic by connecting boxes with wires, not code. Covers nodes, ports, data-flow vs execution-flow graphs and how a graph maps to code.