GameMaker News

GameMaker’s latest monthly update is now available to download. This month's update focuses on runtime stability and fixing several crashes.

New Free Monthly Asset Bundle - Cute Building sprites for your next medieval or fantasy game. Great for city builders, RTS games, or your virtual tabletop.

Create a Live Wallpaper using GameMaker showcasing some of the new interactive features. There are 20 chances to win a cash prize of $1,000 USD.

A unique game jam was thrown in aid of Comic Relief 2024, led by Gower College Development Studios (GCDS), and supported by the British Esports Student Champions – GCS Owls. 

Write an article about the Epic Online Services extension without saying ‘make your game more epic’? Challenge accepted. GameMaker has a large suite of extensions that allow developers

Thor of Pirate Software talks: indie dev life, promoting your first game, the biggest challenges of the RPG genre, and what lies beyond his game Heartbound

Tony Grayson is the head, lead designer, and composer of Summitsphere, the indie studio behind Antonball Deluxe and the upcoming ANTONBLAST. We asked Tony about the game’s red-hot Kickstarter…

GameMaker 2024.2 is here, bringing new features, a plethora of bug fixes and behind-the-scenes refactoring in various areas of the runtime. Audio FX Parameter Tracks The Sequence Editor now…

‘My main value is to focus on everything that you can do with your community.’Buckle up for a two-part interview series with Jason Thor Hall, the lead programmer at Pirate Software, the winner of the…

Technology can open up the gaming industry to people with physical disabilities like limited movement. Jason Vearing (Winx hands free gaming) is developing software that allows people to play video…

Dylan Gedig and May Gardens, known better in the indie space as Red Nexus Games (RNG), created the dangerously addictive pachinko roguelike Peglin, where you seek payback on a greedy dragon for…

It’s time to farm some XP with Farm Survivor, the latest game template for GameMaker. Move your character, level your weapons, and see if you can survive until the end of the game. The Farm…

You may know Summitsphere as the studio behind upcoming destructive platformer ANTONBLAST, but did you know the Anton series actually began with Antonball Deluxe?Lead designer and Summitsphere head…

Nate Haddock of Lateralis Heavy Industries is a game developer, artist and composer. He’s the creator of OTXO, Dogworld, Manus Dei and the composer for We Kill Monsters. We sat down with Nate…

People come into game development from many different routes, Graeme Hawkins (Retchy) started off as an animator with no coding experience. Armed with his visual expertise and inspired by early film…

GameMaker 2023.11 is here. What’s new? New Changelog System We are replacing our release notes page with a direct view into our public GitHub milestones (our releases) and the issues inside…

We see development teams of all shapes and sizes using GameMaker, but it’s pretty rare to see a father and son creative team. Rarer still to see one where the creative lead on the project is a 6…

James Chapp Fillmore is an independent video game developer, bass player, and medieval toy-crafter based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.When he’s not developing new projects, James runs a YouTube…

Hi everyone, we have a special gift for our community this Thanksgiving. From now on, GameMaker will be free for non-commercial purposes on all non-console platforms. At the same time, to meet…

How to Write Compelling Characters For Video Games ‘If you create an engaging character, players will follow them anywhere.’ - Angus FletcherJust think about Kratos in God of War, or the hype around…

Oscar Gonzales’ mother wanted him to become a doctor. Now known online as BOON, Oscar defied that request to become the developer of dungeon-crawler Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS.In our…

During the day, Barry Young works a regular job in the game industry. At night, he becomes Delayed Victory, the developer of upcoming online co-op, Mining Mechs.We managed to steal some of Barry’s…

Schools can now teach game design and access high-quality game development course materials and tutorials for free with GameMaker - the fastest and friendliest cross-platform game development engine.…

Satisfy your sweet tooth with GameMaker’s latest puzzle game template: Match 3! Line up the matching donuts to rack up the points and reach the target score before you run out of moves.The Match 3…