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Phaser vs Gamemaker Studio 2: What are the differences?

Developers describe Phaser as "Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework". It is a free open source HTML5 game framework. It uses Pixi.js for WebGL and Canvas rendering across desktop and mobile web browsers. Games can be compiled to iOS and Android apps via 3rd party tools. On the other hand, Gamemaker Studio 2 is detailed as "A 2D development environment". It has everything you need to take your idea from concept to finished game. With no barriers to entry and powerful functionality.

Phaser and Gamemaker Studio 2 belong to "Game Development" category of the tech stack.

Phaser is an open source tool with 25.7K GitHub stars and 6.02K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Phaser's open source repository on GitHub.

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What are some alternatives to ?

Godot

It is an advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open source game engine. It is developed by hundreds of contributors from all around the world.

AppGameKit

It is an easy to learn game development engine, ideal for Beginners, Hobbyists & Indie developers. It solves many problems caused by mobile device fragmentation. With it you can code your game once and then deploy your game to multiple platforms. Different resolutions and input systems are all easily handled by it.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Python

Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

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