I know this has been asked before but I think it is worth bringing it up again in light of the GameDev Humble Bundle offering the full Game Maker suite for $15.
I’d love to stay with Corona but the GUI of Game Maker just makes things easier for me. I really wish Corona would release a Windows version. I’d come right back.
Just checked out Game Maker, haven’t been following its development but the ability to build for PS4 certainly piqued my interest. For arcade-y games it looks like a good option, but it doesn’t have the sort of features I need like encryption, SQL lite, widgets etc.
Do you need SQL lite specifically? Game Maker has pretty decent data structuring and there are full featured database plugins available from the market e.g. https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/1592/gmsdb-gm-simple-database
As for encryption, what do you need to encrypt? Here is a tutorial on file encryption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_SZUupZZDg
Interesting. For encryption I need to speedily encrypt and decrypt strings.
But my main concern about switching would be no lua tables. They really are brilliant 
The closest editor akin to GUI Composer which is supported for Windows and specifically to Corona is Level Director.
I’ve been using it for years and the new ‘X’ (cross-platform) version is excellent as-is the on-going support.
Just checked out Game Maker, haven’t been following its development but the ability to build for PS4 certainly piqued my interest. For arcade-y games it looks like a good option, but it doesn’t have the sort of features I need like encryption, SQL lite, widgets etc.
Do you need SQL lite specifically? Game Maker has pretty decent data structuring and there are full featured database plugins available from the market e.g. https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/1592/gmsdb-gm-simple-database
As for encryption, what do you need to encrypt? Here is a tutorial on file encryption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_SZUupZZDg
Interesting. For encryption I need to speedily encrypt and decrypt strings.
But my main concern about switching would be no lua tables. They really are brilliant
The closest editor akin to GUI Composer which is supported for Windows and specifically to Corona is Level Director.
I’ve been using it for years and the new ‘X’ (cross-platform) version is excellent as-is the on-going support.