Game Maker 8

When on Sunday we revealed that a beta of Game Maker 8 was “not far away” little did we know just how soon it would emerge. Earlier today Mark Overmars posted details of how to obtain a copy of Game Maker 8 beta on the YoYo Games blog.  To receive a copy of the beta […] More

Sandy Duncan has revealed that a “GM 8 Beta is not far away….”.   The statement was made in a response to a question by Polish student Piotr Gnys on Twitter. A preliminary list of features for Game Maker 8 was only revealed a couple of days ago so the news may come as a […] More

Mark Overmars has posted on the YoYo Games blog with a preliminary list of features that are planned to be included in Game Maker 8. We already knew about the improved image editor with support for alpha transparency, the new bundled resources that YoYo were seeking artists for and GMB had speculated about an object […] More

YoYo Games have been very quiet about the features that will be added to Game Maker 8.  One addition that does appear to be on the way however is an Object Exporter. More

After much discussion by users of the software Sandy Duncan has given the first glimpse into who will have to pay for an upgraded version of Game Maker 8 when it is released later this year. Whilst we haven’t as yet decided on our broad policy of what/if/how you upgrade from GM7 to GM8 I […] More

Mark Overmars has released a “preliminary version” of the sprite and image editors which will be included in Game Maker 8 for bug testing and to get feedback from the community. The editor (< 1MB .zip) contains anti-aliasing and transparency options that are not available in Game Maker 7. Mark also added that it will […] More