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GameMaker Release 2024.4
GameMaker’s latest monthly update is now available to download. This month's update focuses on runtime stability and fixing several crashes.
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GameMaker Asset Bundles - Fantasy Town
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.
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GameMaker Live Wallpaper Jam - Win Cash Prizes!
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.
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ANTONBLAST: If We Didn't Succeed, We Would’ve Been On The Streets
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…
Peglin Developers: Switching from Unity to GameMaker
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…
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10 Hit Video Games That Started Life As Mods
Video game mods are a pillar of modern PC gaming. Communities come together to create mods that improve textures, FPS counts, and accessibility; other times they make wild and ridiculous changes like…
Luiz Alves: After Working At The Hospital, I Never Imagined I’d Be Making A Game For It
Luiz Alves, known in the GameMaker community as Alves, is a jack of all trades: software developer by day, game developer by night, and YouTuber whenever time allows.During our interview, he explored…
GameMaker Awards 2023: Winners Revealed
The GameMaker Awards are always hotly-contested, but this year, with perhaps the most stacked field in the history of the competition, it seemed impossible to call.That’s where you came in, and you…
Should I Move My Games From Unity To Godot, Unreal Or GameMaker?
On September 12th 2023, Unity announced plans to start charging developers earning over a certain threshold each time their game was installed on somebody’s system.Doesn’t matter how it was installed…
Version 2023.8: Tile Collisions, Font Effects And Custom Debug Views
GameMaker 2023.8 brings text effects, improved debugging, tile collisions and more.
More Debug Tools
You can now make in-game debug windows.
After enabling the debug overlay, call dbg_view()…
These Doomed Isles: The Importance Of Balance In Card Games
Andrew is a solo game developer and the head of Triplevision Games, the studio behind metroidvania Mable & The Wood and the upcoming strategy/card game, These Doomed Isles.During our interview,…
The GameMaker Team Barbecue
One of the things I really like about working for GameMaker is that we’ve fully embraced a work-from-home culture. So long as the work’s getting done, it doesn’t really matter where that work is…
Are Students Benefiting From EdTech?
Schools and teachers love to bring the latest technology into their classrooms: they can create more engaging environments for students, and help them learn skills and tools that will underpin the…
GameMaker Community Celebrates 50th Jam
This blog comes from Alice, a long-time GameMaker Community staff member and passionate jammer running the forum's own game jams. The Jam Unlike Any OtherHave you ever heard of GameMaker…
What Are Indie Games & How to Develop Them
Whether you’re looking to play football with rocket-powered cars or date a hunky cartoon rendition of KFC’s Colonel Sanders, indie games - titles made by small indie game studios and solo indie game…
Voting Opens For GameMaker Awards 2023
It’s time! Our expert panel has selected their fifteen finalists for the 2023 GameMaker Awards, and now, you get to crown this year’s winners!Choosing finalists for the GameMaker Awards gets harder…
2D Games vs. 3D Games: What’s The Difference?
Sonic vs. Robotnik. PlayStation vs. Xbox. Aristotle vs. Mashy-spike-plate!
The games industry has provided hundreds of iconic rivalries over the years, and in the late 90s, one of the biggest…
How To Make Money Making Indie Games
For some indie developers, making money off their games is a bonus. For others, developing money-making video games is what puts food on the table.
If you’re planning on making money from your…
New Brick Breaker Template Now Available
2023 has been a banger year for remakes and remasters: Resident Evil 4, Metroid Prime, Dead Space, and now, we’re adding Brick Breaker to the list!Based on Atari’s arcade classic, Breakout, Brick…
What Are The Best Game Jam Games Ever Made?
Game jams are a fantastic way to push your creative boundaries. With a theme to work around and the clock ticking, you’ll generate ideas you’d never have conjured otherwise - ideas which may even…
Conscript: I Didn’t Even Know What Coding Was
Jordan Mochi is the solo developer behind the upcoming World War I survival horror game, Conscript.During our interview, we asked Jordan about his interest in history, experience with game…
How To Make Pixel Art For 2D Games
So, you want to make pixel art - to design your own 2D game art and characters? Or perhaps you want to create a .gif of your dog soaring through the clouds into a pink and purple…
Gender Equity, Learning Barriers, and Computer Science
A study published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly has left Frank Moody, GameMaker’s Head of Education Relations, pondering some pretty big questions.In this article, Frank explores the report’s…
GameMaker's 2023 GMTK Game Jam Log
The 2023 GMTK Game Jam is in the books, and this year, five members of the GameMaker team - Alice Casagrande Moretti, Lucy Roddam, Neve O'Neill, Patrick Roche and Scott Dunbar - came together to…
What Is An Educator?
Frank Moody, head of Education Relations at GameMaker, has spoken to hundreds of educators during his career. Some work for schools and universities, some lead after-school programs, and others are…
What’s The Best Game-Making Software For Beginners?
Ever dreamed of making your own video game? You’re not alone.
Millions of gamers nurse the dream of one day creating their own game, but it can be difficult to know where to start. With so many…
Version 2023.6: Parametric EQ, New Debug Overlay, And More SDF Support
GameMaker 2023.6 brings a new audio effect, an updated debug overlay and expanded SDF support.Parametric EQThis release introduces a parametric EQ audio effect. This gives you more control over…
Writing For Video Games: The Must Know List of Character Archetypes
Writing for video games is often about creating flow charts, side quests, cutscenes and collaborating with the rest of the design team. Character development is sometimes difficult to sandwich…
