I didn’t know where to post this so I chose the Unity subgroup. Anyway … I was just taking a quick look at Unity as I was up early couldn’t sleep properly from the heat - and I saw this thing called Unity 2D Experimental it it totally blew me away. This thing if it ever goes into full production mode is going to totally revolutionize Unity in the 2D realm. It’s currently in beta so here’s hoping. From the look of it it is going to have features that GameMaker used to have in it, but, I found that software to be buggy and had numerous problem.
I can’t seem to find much on it at all in the way of tutorials, so, it hard to get a grasp on what it does exactly, but, it’s a major step up on the existing 2D toolset.
https://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/06/13/2d-experimental-preview/