GMS2 Future Feature Considerations

gms_consideration.txt

Planned Features
This page is now outdated and does not accurately represent the planned future for GameMaker - please see our Official Road Map for up to date details.

The list below represents some features that have been considered for GameMaker, this is not necessarily the order they will be developed or released in and inclusion on this list does not guarantee they will be added. Other items may well be released directly without ever appearing on this list.

While we will try and keep this list updated, items listed are also subject to change or removal without notice.

        9-Slices
        Adaptive Icons (Android)
        Additional IDE Translations
        CI Building
        Colour tinting of tiles
        Education Updates
        Facebook Instant Games
        HTML5 Web Sockets
        Local Multiplayer
        Redefine key bindings for the IDE
        Sequences
        Source Control Updates
        Spine Update
        Sprite Attach Points
        Todo List
        Video Playback
        Vulkan

 

    GML: Chained arrays and accessors - allow foo[a][b][c] (and accessor equivalents)
    GML: exception support  - try… catch… finally… and throw
    GML: Garbage Collector
    GML: Inline functions - allow var a = function( a, b ) { ….. }
    GML: lightweight objects - new and delete + constructors.
    GML: method data type to allow calling scripts through variables (i.e. foo=myscript; foo( 0, 1, 2); )

 
 
Future Considerations (In discussion only!)

    64bit runtime support for Windows
    Allow auto tilesets to be used at runtime
    Audio - basic audio generator in IDE
    Audio - basic sample editor in IDE (cut / copy / paste / Trim / resample / Fade In / Fade Out)
    Code editor - Document replace text support
    Code Editor - Pretty Print / Format of selected code.
    Game Language support - IDE Language Resource
    IDE Find All References - quick search in IDE to find all the references
    IDE Search in preferences
    Image Editor - Animated Brush support
    Image Editor effects
    Import PSD file format to projects (NOTE: Will still convert to PNG) - should handle layers
    Import SVG graphics
    Inherited projects
    Minimap - Workspace and Room Editor
    MipMaps - mipmap generation, mip filter selection (HTML5)
    Mobile - allow load and save of pictures from camera/picture albums
    Mobile Templates - an indication of what room views will look like on popular platforms.
    Orientation Events - a new event for supported platforms.
    Particles Editor (and new Resource type)
    Personal Asset Library - quick access for personal code snippets, assets, extensions etc
    Plugin documentation and SDK
    Quick 47 Tile Tilemap generation from a simple 5 tile
    Refactor support
    Resize Event - so it works as expected when the window is resized (or fullscreen)
    Room Editor: Audio Emitter on Asset Layers
    Room Editor: Particle Emitter on Asset Layer.
    Room Editor: Static Text on Asset Layers - include Language Resource support
    Signed Distance Field for Fonts in the IDE to improve text quality when zooming
    Runtime Signed Distance Field for Fonts
    Runtime support for Game Languages
    Export as GIF in the Image Editor
    Tile Collision - built-in support for tile collision
    Tileset resizing
    UWP - Full Open Live support
    Wrapping Tilemaps - also allow smaller tilemaps than the room for simple parallax 
    GML: data structures as a true datatype (not just an index)
    GML: Accessor literals - allow data structure literals - var a = {|  1, 2, 3 };