Game Maker gives you two modes of scripting, custom blocks and direct GML script. This is something no other dev hub has achieved till now. I often went there to play games as a gamer, than as a developer. Game Maker had a really cool Arcade where they promoted the work community did, and allowed you to upload screenshots etc of games, and get systematic reviews too. You could find code of almost all successful game maker games and engines, as they called it open source and save a lot of time. Game Maker has always had an elite and generous user community. Unfortunately, the stable version of Game Maker had lesser bugs than the stable versions of Stencyl. Also GM had better resource management and editing.
There are some features in Game Maker(like dynamic zoom) which Stencyl sill doesnt have. For iOS games, stencyl is more ' direct' than game maker and in terms of development pipeline. If you compare the PC/Mac versions of both, i'd say Game maker is as good as Stencyl. I have not tried the newer versions of Game maker, the ones which promised easy mobile exports, because by then i had established a comfort zone with stencyl. I have not used Scirra and Torque, maybe u wanna give them a try.
I have used Game Maker for about an year, when it was at its peak.
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