Thank you for a cool product
Howdy.
I have been developing websites / apps / games for some time now. I happened upon a random forum post mentioning the word Fusion in a game development aspect and googled it. Happened so that it was also on Steam and on Humble Bundle. I bought the highest package and started playing around.
This product is super neat but is not for the faint of heart.
This program can be compared to a tool belt. However most times you cannot just reach in and grab your hammer, you have to reach in and build your hammer first. You are not going to find a perfect solution for the things you would like to build without first making that solution. Which can be daunting. Here is the great thing though compared to other programs in a similar range like Construct 2 for example where crazy easy features are built right in so you can really make something fast compared to Fusion, but here is the kicker, it's building an html canvas game / app and it does not build natively. That means, for most games you are probably going to make, you will have low frames. But with Fusion, when you push that app / game to another device besides your computer, it runs native to that device. That is a very very strong aspect and I am very happy with the amount of aspects and objects I can add to a game / app without damaging my frames per second and without having to code in all the tiny little pieces.
Fusion is a great piece of software for making native and smooth games or apps.
The only thing I would suggest for user convenient improvements would be just to take the time one day to code in a bunch of conveniences into the program. In this program, most of the time, there is only one way to do anything, just one and you have to discover that way. In most other programs there are a couple ways to do the same thing. Mainly Fusion leaves you to do a lot of that manually. This falls in the category of small things (like if you double click a green checkmark and there is only 1 event, that should default to editing that event rather than opening the event list of that row and then disabling the ability to F7 run at the same time, so you have to go back again to test once a change is made) but when someone is spending hours constantly touching all those small things, they become bigger issues.
I have super high hopes for this program and I hope Fusion 3 takes off well. If there is anything I can do to help with development / testing, feel free to let me know.
Thanks,
Jesse