“We look forward to further expanding Opera GX and promoting the growth of GameMaker, making it more accessible to novice users and developing it into the world’s leading 2D gaming engine used by commercial studios,” he said. Krystian Kolondra, EVP Browsers at Opera, in a blog post.
But what is the end goal here? That’s hard to say. Many companies, including Google, Microsoft and Amazon, see streaming as the future of browser-based games. Does Opera want a similar offering for Opera GX users? Or does he want to follow companies like Epic Games, which owns the popular Unreal Engine? For now, we can only speculate. “We’ve always had big plans to improve GameMaker on all platforms, both from the perspective of improving accessibility and improving the features available to commercial studios,” said Stuart Poole, general manager of YoYo Games. “And now we can not wait to see them arrive much sooner.”