This article is about the software by YoYo Games for Microsoft Windows and macOS. For the software by Recreational Software Designs for MS-DOS, see Game-Maker. For other uses, see Gamemaker.
GameMaker
Original author(s)
Mark Overmars
Developer(s)
YoYo Games
Initial release
15 November 1999; 24 years ago (1999-11-15)
Stable release
v2024.2
/ 29 February 2024; 58 days ago (2024-02-29)
Written in
C++ (runtime)
C# (IDE)
Operating system
Microsoft Windows
macOS
Platform
Microsoft Windows
macOS
Ubuntu
HTML5
Android
iOS
Amazon Fire TV
Android TV
Universal Windows Platform
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Xbox One
Xbox Series X/S
Nintendo Switch
Available in
English
French
Spanish
German
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Chinese (Simplified)
Polish
Italian
Korean
Japanese
License
Proprietary
Website
gamemaker.io
GameMaker (originally Animo, Game Maker(until 2011) and GameMaker Studio) is a series of cross-platform game engines created by Mark Overmars in 1999 and developed by YoYo Games since 2007. The latest iteration of GameMaker was released in 2022.
GameMaker accommodates the creation of cross-platform and multi-genre video games using a custom drag-and-drop visual programming language or a scripting language known as Game Maker Language, which can be used to develop more advanced games that could not be created just by using the visual programming features. GameMaker was originally designed to allow novice computer programmers to be able to make computer games without much programming knowledge by use of these actions. Recent versions of software also focus on appealing to advanced developers.[1]
^Vinciguerra, David; Howell, Andrew (16 October 2015). The GameMaker Standard. CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-317-51469-5.
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