Hi, I’ve seen quite a couple of really nice games that were developed using playmaker. I was wondering, is it a beginner-only thing? I’m good enough with C# programming to be able to do what I want, should I stick to that or does playmaker have other advantages other than “You don’t have to code”?
PlayMaker is still a form of programming, even though you’re not writing code. You still have to know the same sort of logic, which could help you learn to code later. And don’t knock, as even the professionals use it. The aforementioned Hearthstone uses it for a lot, that newest Longest Journey game (and probably Draugen too) use it for conversation logic, some shooty games have 100% PlayMaker logic.
It’s definitely great for a subset of the overall logic that the non-programmer types on the team can understand. I still prefer uScript though