'GameMaker basically taught me how to make games.'
It was the perfect stepping stone for me to go from knowing nothing to feeling like I am an experienced games programmer.” “Using GameMaker's in-built tools let me understand the role they play in game development and gave me the foundations I needed to go on to recreate any of them for myself in larger contexts. 'GameMaker's systems were easy enough to approach as a novice and are now so second-nature to me that I'm comfortable tackling larger-scale problems that I wouldn't have dreamt of four years ago.'