GameMaker Blog

Everyone new to Game Maker should read this well-written article by Rick_Slick at the GMC.
Computer programming is more often an art rather than a science. You can read all the books on computer programming that you want, but unless you’re one of those people that just pick things up right away, the only way you [...]

GMTV are back with a second weekend extra tutorial, this time explaining how to make a “Orbiting Effect” without using paths. Most of the tutorial seems fine although it is very fast and I hate the way that the code is given out.
There is still no sign of the first full [...]

Finally a decent gamemaker video tutorial. (GMC topic)

In an poor attempt to emulate GMKing’s ‘leaky pipes‘ promotion technique, as used for announcing the YoYoGames endorsement of MarkUp, you probably haven’t noticed the few subtle hints I have been trying to drop about a Game Maker related project I am planning.
Maybe you have now. Well the domain was avalible and I [...]

You may feel that taking a screenshot is easy, and indeed it is, but a lot of the screenshots I see promoting games at the GMC and on sites devoted to gamemaker games fail to follow even the simplest of rules to make your screenshot effective.
There are a number of factors determining the effectiveness of [...]

What format should I save my screenshot as?
The one vital rule:

Not as a bitmap (.bmp)

If you don’t know the differences between different image formats, and how data relating to the picture is stored you might want to check out this article on Wikipedia about the way bitmap files are stored.
Using a bitmap, such as the [...]

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