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Our recent $3000 software giveaway has come to a close. Unfortunately, we experienced some unforeseen technical difficulties during the last few days of the promotion, though we still received thousands of entries into the draw. Winners have been selected by random draw, and have been contacted at their supplied email address. Check your inbox! Subscribe […] More
Recently GameMaker Blog experienced some unexpected extended downtime. The downtime, which lasted approximately 72 hours, was caused by the company hosting our server. Due to a serious network error and a minor omission in our backup system, we have lost access to images used on the site over the past year. However, all other data […] More
[highlight]This event has now ended. Subscribe to our newsletter in the sidebar to be notified of future giveaways.[/highlight] As of today, GameMaker Blog has been online for 7 years! To celebrate this milestone we’re giving away $3000+ worth of free software, including licenses for GameMaker Studio, the beginner-friendly game development engine that this website is […] More
YoYo Games, the developers of GameMaker Studio, have posted a new tech blog article discussing how to profile the performance of GameMaker projects using the Debug Module. Below is an excerpt. “If you are unfamiliar with the term, profiling is simply a way of checking a game’s performance while [it is] running, whether it’s checking […] More
Cook, Serve, Delicious! by Vertigo Gaming is an entry in the woefully underrepresented hardcore time management genre. Tasked with developing a five star, world-class restaurant from scratch, you’ll start by preparing simple orders like pretzels, hotdogs and soda, and eventually work your way up to steaks, complex soups and even a Bananas Foster flambe! Still, […] More
YoYo Games, the developers of GameMaker Studio, have posted a new tech blog article explaining how to create extensions for Windows, Mac, and JavaScript targets. Below is an excerpt. “If you are developing for Windows and Mac platforms, it is worth noting that you can create a single extension with only one set of functions […] More
A collection of interesting links and content from within the GameMaker community. More
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