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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
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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.
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GameMaker Asset Bundles - Particle Effects
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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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.

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.
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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.

GameMaker Asset Bundles - Particle Effects
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.

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…

Version 2024.2: Sequence Audio Effects, HTML5 Optimisation Control And More
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…

Pirate Software: From Infosec and Blizzard Entertainment to Streaming Gamedev
‘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…

Designing Games for Gamers with Disabilities: Winx Hands Free Gaming
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…

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…

Farm XP In The Survivor Game Template
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…