Overall, I was surprised by this game engine, in a fantastic way. Its community is evolving, the engine is growing its potential every day, and it is easy to pickup and very performant. So far, I'm sticking with it for the long-term and I believe it's great not only for teaching game design basics, but also reaching high-quality projects.

I think it's way more intuitive than other engines. Without watching any of its amazing official tutorials or reading its complete wiki, you could create something simple in your very first try.I code on a daily basis, so I was used to working with other engines/frameworks that use mainly code to work out functionalities. I bumped into GDevelop accidentally and I liked how powerful it can be, I strongly believe its current potential has not been fully exploited. The extensions systems, ability to write custom code, and external layouts/events makes it also interesting for experienced developers. But it's still very beginner-friendly, allowing almost anyone with no game design experience to come out with a game/interactive story/graphical guide. It is free and open-source, two things that I really value, and it is constantly evolving.Haven't seen another engine matching the export features of GDevelop, in 10 minutes and no more than 5 clicks you could have an HTML5, Android, Windows, Linux, macOS distribution, ready to go. And only one click away to publish to their own game page.

It has a really cool mobile app (with almost all the same options as the desktop one) but its layout is not as useful, and arranging sprites/zooming can be very frustrating.Although it has support for tiles/tile maps, it would be very convenient if it has it as a native feature.3D still needs some work, it's a recent feature, and I'm sure it will evolve.One thing that may be a deal-breaker is that it currently stores all the game logic in a single-file. Whether this is really convenient for sharing or copying your game, it could be frustrating when you are collaborating through git, for example. I think that changing the way logic is stored could help a team collaborate better and reach bigger projects and easier scaling.

I have had a great time using it and I expect to keep using it in the future. I really hope that this keeps expanding with more features and more code added to the no-code part.

I really like how easy to find and use GDevelop is. Not many things are locked under a paywall and the features are really nice and neat. The idea of letting the community build upon this is an amazing idea and makes practically anything possible! I also love the idea of adding ads into your games to be able to get monetized.

I dislike the lack of a movement script or a change of perspective. These things would make it way better and much more compatible with other games.

I would highly recommend this engine to anyone who wants to learn game development or wants to try out 2D development. GDevelop is inexpensive and a fantastic starting point for devs and makes game development accessible.

GDevelop holds a special place in my heart. It is so easy to pick up and make games in, even if you have no coding experience making game development accessible for once. Recently they started adding 3D game development into the engine, I am extremely excited for the future of the engine.

I hope to one day see implementation of sprite strip / tileset editors in the IDE like Gamemaker has. It can be a pain to cut up every tileset and import each frame of a player or enemy animation.

I love how easy it is to use GDevelop. It is great and easy to learn.

I don’t like the paid features as compared to others that offer the same features for free.

Overall, I have been using Gdevelop for a little over 5 years now and in all my time of using it, I have never once felt that it has let me down. Ever since the beginning it was one of the most beginner friendly and easy to work with/understand game engine I have ever worked with. I have made so many games over the years and have learned so much. Crazy enough as it sounds, despite being a no-code engine, learning the Gdevelop events sheet has actually made it significantly easier when I started learning coding languages such as JavaScript and C#. I also really love watching Gdevelop grow and update more and more over time. There are so many new features and changes that have been added since I first started, and all for the better. In turn I have also seen my games getting better and higher quality due to my skills increasing and being given more access to new tools. In conclusion, I personally love Gdevelop and it easily fits my every need when developing games.

I love it's simple and easy to understand interface as well as it's kind and welcoming community. I can't stress enough how natural it feels to use Gdevelop compared to other game engines. Everything just flows so nicely and even at times when I run into roadblocks, there is always someone willing to help out.

Despite all of the absolutley spectacular things about Gdevelop, nothing will ever be perfect. However, Gdevelop sure isn't too far from perfect in my eyes. My only real complaints is that occasionally the built in pixel art editor "Piskel" will crash after I press undo "Ctrl + Z". Which in turn makes me lose any progress I made to the sprite I was editing or drawing. Again though, this does happen quite rarely.

There are a lot of tools for developing videogames these days, and most of them are free to some degree... But there's always a catch. For some it's the insane system requirements, for others is a steep learning curve, and for some others it's the cost. And others are just overkill if you just want to make a running or platform pixel art game.With GDevelop you get just the right tools, its very lightweight on resources, you can start from free and the learning curve it's almost inexistent, you dont even need experience coding. A compact, well optimized package that can take you from prototype to final product, quick and easy, and on lots of platforms.

Really lightweight on system resources, I've even tried it on my phone and it seems totally possible to fully develop and publish at least a simple game on it. You can quickly preview your work in progress in a browser window from within the app. It provides you with everything you need to create your project from scratch and even publish the final product.Feeling lost? You can just import one of the several premade starter and tutorial projects and start building from there. There's also plenty of official videos and documentation, and they're all really easy to understand. Skill level? From zero to hero.The price? You can start from free, there's a lot of free resources and assets and if you want to go the next level, the premium ones are really accesible. You can also subscribe to the premium version with cloud features, etc, the starting point being literally that of a sandwich a month.

I personally won't use it, but 3D seems a bit limited, at least for big complex projects... For simple lightweight games it seems good enough.

I'm using it for fun, testing, quick and dirty prototypes and it's a marvelous tool for kids and semi-serious devs.

It's a super light tool to use. Gives a feeling of doing a game right in the game due to a lack of actual scripting editor. There are, however, advanced funtionalities for the curious/experienced ones, which I am not.It's also extremely easy to use, which makes you focus on the art more... I'd assume most users looking into GDevelop appreciate that.The extensions are just amazing. You can easily do basic and semi-advanced things extremely quickly, like making player move, laying out the levels, integrating physics and such.

The UX/UI could be much better. Initially that was a turnoff for me but it grew on me eventully, and it has improved since in both speed and usability.Would love a console export support (especially Switch, which GDevelop seems like made for) but that is probably not hapenning.Finally, seeing more reviewed extension (with better documentation) and more support for devs that build extensions would be great — they have the potential to make GDevelop skyrocket (like the recent 3D implementation). There are some amazing extensions out there (Dynamic Water comes to mind), as well as advanced examples you can get on GitHub, but they're hard to find and/or understand with limited info.

I have been using G develop as my primary engine and I have completed one game and I have started on another, which is going to be my first actual game release.

I tried game design on unreal engine 4, and it was kind of difficult to use. I only used the no code portion of the engine, but it was still so complex, and I was new to game development. I kind of quit because I got nowhere in Unreal engine 4 after about five years. When I started, GDeveloped, I just fell in love with the engine because it was so simple. I actually created basically a full game in a couple months as opposed to years without a success.

One of the things that unreal has that G developer doesn’t, or at least I don’t know how to use it much and it seems a little bit complicated in the engine. That is the debugging feature. And you, E4, you can run the engine and then look at the code, and it will show real time the engine processing the code, which helps you see where your hiccups are, this was my favorite feature of you in for, and it would be really cool if GDevelop could implement something like that.

GDevelope is one of the most engaging and friendly software which is great for beginners and pros, the best things/features we like about GDevelope is:1. The community2. The features3. The low price.4. The pre built modules5. GDevelope :D

I personaly like the way how friendly and angaging the GDevelope features and communities are. They are open for the people starting from newbies to the very expert programers. The pre-build modules are excellent for the newbie programers to grasp on what are the foundations of building and animating modules.

Even though there are only few countable errors or things us the community don't like that are limited feature, all good/smooth features are premium that is paying money for them. Only these minor mistakes are hated by the community.

This became my main engine for the moment

Ease of use and exportation of projects, also it's quite intuitive to do a lots of things, behaviors are the strong point of this engine

When you get the hang of how the "no code" enviroment works it gets kinda slow to keep using events, should be an option for a more faster coding experience

Overall, I'm very happy I found GDevelop. I've tried similar products (Construct) but there is just so much more (and more value) available at GDevelop. I've bounced around several different game engines and languages, but I think this one is a keeper!

I enjoyed the "onboarding" with the helpful tutorials to help explain how the development environment works. Also, I really enjoy the videos at YouTube, they keep me learning along the way.

I'm still learning, but the only thing that sticks out so far is the handling of tables/arrays could be a little more intuitive. I'm starting to figure out how GDevelop handles tables, but there's still something missing. Hard to explain.

To date, I have developed and published seven projects on Google Play, sorted from the most popular:"Map of air alerts of Ukraine" is an application that displays threats to the population of Ukraine in real time in a graphical form on the map of Ukraine. This app was built entirely with built-in features of GDevelop, no external solutions like JS code, the app has been downloaded by 350,000 users all the time, and it brings real value to people. It doesn't seem like a lot of downloads, but according to GDevelop statistics, the application has been launched about 20,000,000 times in all the time! "Gearbox" is a manual transmission simulation game. For all the time this project was downloaded by 150,000 people and this is exactly the project that I released in the first month of my use of GDevelop and this proves that you don't need to study for years, but you just need to do it and everything will be fine. "Submarine" is a game in which you can build your own submarine and install cannons on it to counter underwater enemies. This game was created within 10 days for GDevelop's building-themed jam, but that hasn't stopped it from garnering close to 4,000 downloads to date."Weather Feels Like" is a weather app that focuses more on temperature sensations. Again, it was created with built-in functions in the engine, without the use of external solutions, it works perfectly interacting with the Internet in the same way as the Alarm Map.

Ease of use - in GDevelop you can really quickly and easily learn how to create games and applications of any type, I say this from my own experience, since I came to this engine with almost nothing in programming and development, but after a day I was able to create my own , although a simple game based on an example, and a week later I released another game, but it was more complicated and a month later I released my first successful game, which I will talk about a little later. Frequent updates - Gdevelop quite often introduces new features and improves old ones, and especially quickly solves bugs related to engine functions. And of course the community - the GDevelop community is the best community I have ever met in my life, if you have a question or a problem, then 100% there will be people who will definitely help you, even if your problem is very simple and obvious, or vice versa very complex and generally not obvious. You can contact the community at any time and in almost any language and they will definitely help you.

I would not say that this is a big minus, but at some point in my work, I lacked the variety of integrated ad networks SDKs for mobile devices. At the moment, if I'm not mistaken, only AdMob is available from such networks, but I would like to have at least some alternative, for example, if Admob decides to stop cooperating with you at some point, then you will lose most of your profits ( if you're a mobile developer like me) and you won't be able to recoup those profits by changing the network (unless you're a genius programmer who can integrate the ad SDK on your own). But in general, I'm glad that Gdevelop is developing and I hope that new ad networks will appear and be supported in the future.

I’ve had a very good experience so far and as I still build my game after 1 year I have learned so much and feel I am progressing a lot. I now feel like I can make any type of game in Gdevelop. Love the software and keep improving!

The No code aspect is a huge part of why I started using it and the ease of use / quick learning I experienced were stellar. I love the interface and how easy it is to visualize your conditions and actions working together. It’s a very intuitive system and for someone like me with experience using 3D software, I picked up on GDevelop fairly quick and now I feel I am near Expert Level after almost 1 year. I also love the ease of build creation and live / mobile preview! Very smart!

I feel like there can be better organizational tools for developers. I see there is groups in conditions but it would be better to expand upon the customization for Ease of Life changes while coding and setting up large numbers of conditions and objects. Specifically I want to have nested object folders like in all 3D outliners such as Blender or Maya.

Keep up the good work GDevelop. Your presence is always a pleasure to many.

Am delighted by the potential in this software. It offers so much under one roof. Debugging is the most salivating thing among other capabilities. GDevelop is easy to use and provides the comfort a web developer deserves. It is quite fast and accurately performs tasks.

With my experience, I can proudly say that GDevelop is a user friendly software. It stretches it's reach to even people without much knowledge on game development. I highly recommend.

We made and release our first game and we were invite to a Live on an YouTube channel on Brasil. It really is simple.

Their videos on how do things, you can't not love it. You can see how it engines works. And the no code for me is the best.

You need more support on the inapp purchases, we don't know yet how we can use it on steam.

We can starting develop at first day, learn and instant use.

Team work, it is hard to manager. Need a better way to work as a team.

I like most about Gdevelop is user friendly, easy to navigate, its free use and as well open source, also its easy to use animation features, also the compiling of the project and just a click no coding required you can build a complete game

I hope they can increase the limits of building packages or project compiling in a day :)

It is a perfect fit for our STEAM programming classes. I don't ever know what type of game the class will develop as we start with Concept Ideas, Prototyping and Development. Gdevelop's flexibility lets us go many directions from resource management, to top down adventures, to platform games. While I occasionally have to step in and lower the students expectations, that is usually a time restriction rather lack of GDevelop's capabilites.

It provides all the features for complete 2d games without overwhelming my elementary students. It's development and capabilities have sky-rocketed over the last couple of years and I'm excited to see where it heads from here.

While I occasionally come across bugs in the different exports they are either quickly resolved or adequate work around offered.

GDevelop is a fun and very powerful tool, with everything you could want in one place! I used it to create a fun game to show my students how they could create their own games, as many of them are interested in video games. Unfortunately, the high level of entry with how much research and background knowledge a user must have to create something kept me from trying to have my students test it out, as it would have required much more time and research than we had. I did mention to students what I used in case they wanted to try it on their own, but I wish that GDevelop made their program even more user friendly by adding built in tutorials, or simpler "challenges" to guide someone through making their first game.

GDevelop packs a ton of features into it's software! Users can edit almost anything they want to - from creating their own character or environment sprites, to detailed interactions and game logic and rules. It's amazing what someone can do with these tools given the time and effort, and for those who are interested in game design and have some ideas of what they want to do, this is a great program!

My biggest complaint with GDevelop is that it really leaves the user to fend for themselves. While it does offer a selection of templates, from platformers to 2D shooters, it does not provide much help beyond that. It is up to the user to either search out help online, on their forum, or to just guess and test whatever they might want to mess with. Someone with more experience or familiarity with the terms that game developers use might have an easier first time, but it can be quite a challenge for someone new. I also wish there were tutorials that could involve younger users to take the first step in game development

Overall impressed & happy. Currently my engine of choice & excited to watch & maybe help it grow.

I'm able to create & edit game projects on-the-go, in-browser without needing to install software. It's very beginner friendly & offers more than similar competitors with 0 cost. It even runs on mobile devices like phones & tablets.

I would like to be able to export raw files used from asset store for editing & to be able to use more common 3d model formats.

I like how simple and intuitive everything is, after learning the basics I can always get by on my own without much need for tutorials. Everything is very well organized and I love the fact that it is Open Source.

The only thing I wish was possible is exporting to consoles, such as Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo. However, I understand that there is a limitation because the games are in HTML5. But it would be perfect if that possibility existed.

in game design its important to have a game engine that is easy to use, and Gdevelop is one of them

Easy to usefreegreat communitylost of extensions

sometimes documentation for some features is not complete

The editor is one of my favorite editors in a game. It's so quick to get your graphics and animations in the editor.

My biggest con is the lack of tutorials. Gdevelop is an easy engine but like all engines there are still things you need to figure out and that's hard when there aren't many resources available.

I prefer to drag and down them where i want them to choose their colors, size and other attributes.

I enjoyed the being arrangement more visual and the widespread industry wide termination of applications like visual basics . It is good and user friendly to use and manage.

There is some improvement needed in 3D features of GDevelop. There is nothing more to dislike for this product.