Quote Originally Posted by Kentarou View Post
Programs like that make game making easier for people that know how to program, and are willing to really put hard work into it.

Or at least, that's how it seems. I've never actually used Game Maker, so I'm no one to say.
Game Maker has two main ways of programming; one that is icon based and one that is text based. The icon based one is basically for new users and part-timers and allows for quite a bit but can get really messy with more complicated programs. The text based one is a kind of pseudo-C++ environment that allows for more complicated coding, but really using that the thing just becomes a down-market version of several other engines you could use to create a game in. In other words it's like the Fisher-Price of coding.