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GameMaker Card Game Template Project and Card Game Bundle
Introducing the GameMaker Card Game template project and the Solitaire Booster Pack! There’s plenty of scope to expand this template with new game modes, power-ups and daily challenge modes.
See MoreGameMaker Release 2024.8
GameMaker’s latest monthly update is now available to download. This month's update brings stability fixes and performance improvements.
See MoreGameMaker Asset Bundles - Solitaire Booster Pack
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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See allLegendary Tasks and the Game Dev Behind Supermarket Times
Lauded as a “surrealist adventure in a store of secrets”, Supermarket Times is unlike anything else we've seen. Rabit Hole Games discuss the game's development and humour
Developing Cryohazard: How to Make a Video Game Start to Finish
How do you make a game in six months as a solo game dev with no experience? BossyPino is a developer who did just that, and he shares his essential tips for getting your game finished.
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Legendary Tasks and the Game Dev Behind Supermarket Times
Lauded as a “surrealist adventure in a store of secrets”, Supermarket Times is unlike anything else we've seen. Rabit Hole Games discuss the game's development and humour
GameMaker Card Game Template Project and Card Game Bundle
Introducing the GameMaker Card Game template project and the Solitaire Booster Pack! There’s plenty of scope to expand this template with new game modes, power-ups and daily challenge modes.
GameMaker Release 2024.8
GameMaker’s latest monthly update is now available to download. This month's update brings stability fixes and performance improvements.
GameMaker Asset Bundles - Solitaire Booster Pack
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.
Developing Cryohazard: How to Make a Video Game Start to Finish
How do you make a game in six months as a solo game dev with no experience? BossyPino is a developer who did just that, and he shares his essential tips for getting your game finished.
Voting Opens For GameMaker Awards 2024
Our expert panel has selected their fifteen finalists for the 2024 GameMaker Awards, and now, you get to crown this year’s winners!
GameMaker’s Design Team Talk at UX Scotland
GameMaker's UX team, Scott McCallum and Neve O'Neill, represented GameMaker at the UX Scotland Conference. They talk about their experience, and their work within the engine
Loungeware Games: A Unique GameMaker Project You Can Be Part Of
A GameMaker community called Loungeware are making their own motley collection of microgames. We interviewed space, La Presidenta of Loungeware, to get you the low down.
Submit Your Entry For The 2024 GameMaker Awards
It’s time for the 2024 GameMaker Awards! Every year, we celebrate the incredible work of the GameMaker community in three different categories.
Kenney on Assets, Creativity and the Future
Kenney’s a prolific creator who’s made thousands of free game assets. We asked Kenney to share his creative process and discuss how he manages to produce high-quality assets.
GMRT Open Beta
GMRT is currently in development, but we’re releasing the beta to developers who want to help us find compatibility issues and try out GMRT’s new features.
Creating User Interfaces with GameMaker’s Flex Panel Functions
Use the new Flex Panel runtime functions to calculate layouts that you can use anywhere.
Version 2024.6: Text In Rooms, Physics Raycast, Depth And Stencil Buffers
GameMaker’s latest monthly update is now available to download. This month's update introduces text in rooms, physics raycast and surface depth buffer.
Buttery Smooth Tech: Automate Your Builds in GitHub Actions
How Butterscotch Shenanigans use GitHub Actions as build automation servers to make builds for their upcoming game, Crashlands 2.
Super Chicken Jumper Template is out now!
We're thrilled to announce our template: "Super Chicken Jumper"!
From the creators of the indie hit "Super Chicken Jumper" this template brings you three exciting levels of packed surprises.
Live Wallpaper Jam Winners
The Live Wallpaper Jam comes to an end. The winners are here! Find out which 20 Live Wallpapers took home a cash prize in the Live Wallpaper Jam. Thank you for all the entries.
What's Coming To GameMaker In 2024
Join us for a look back at GameMaker in 2023 and we'll also discuss and detail what's upcoming for GameMaker in 2024 and beyond!
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.
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.
Empowering Students To Access The Gaming Industry for Comic Relief 2024
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.
Connect GameMaker To Epic Online Services
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
Pirate Software: Indie Game Development With Heartbound And Beyond
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
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…