Is there life after Game Maker?

[bowsette_game]

I certainly hope so. GMS became too restrictive, implemented a rather aggressive Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) scheme on the latest version, and they overhauled the interface. I'm not a fan honestly - the main reason I used GMS1.4 was because I was already used to the old GM interface (my first games were made with 5.3/6.1 very long ago).

Hopefully Godot will get more traction and more tutorials will pop in. Being 100% free software is a huge plus. It also runs natively on GNU/Linux and macOS. I probably won't keep using GMS1 after I finish the 2 projects I'm still working on.

ENIGMA is also a pretty good tool depending on your requirements. It's 100% FOSS and also multiplatform, like ENIGMA. If your game compiles with GM8.1, then it probably works with ENIGMA without any changes. However, if you rely on new features introduced on GMS1.x, chances are you gonna run into incompatibilities. For example, it doesn't support enums and acessors. They also are making a new IDE, which isn't usable and god knows when it will be.

ENIGMA currently uses LateralGM for its IDE, which I've found to be very unstable, even resulting in code loss sometimes. It's usable if you only want to look into GM source code, though.

tl;dr use Godot