"We welcome Unity's support for 2D games, but GameMaker doesn't carry the overhead of unnecessary 3D technology and is built from the ground up to create 2D games." Faster pussycat This underlining ...

I'm going to clue you in on two of the most popular game engines that people use in the industry, Unity and Unreal Engine.

Unity has been the engine of choice for thousands of developers and it's still really good if you want to have a go at making a simple 2D game for a host of different platforms.