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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.
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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.
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GameMaker Asset Bundles - Desert Shooter
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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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.
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…
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GameMaker Is Growing, Celebrate With More Free Options This Thanksgiving
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
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…
Wally And The FANTASTIC PREDATORS: ‘It’s Nuclear Throne But Worse’
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…
Mining Mechs: Every Project Taught Me Something New
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…
Teach Game Design Courses For Free With GameMaker
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.…
Introducing GameMaker’s Match 3 Puzzle Game Template
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…
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…
