GameMaker Update 2024

Listen up GameMakerers… We know you want to make games and live forever 🤩, so here’s GameMaker’s coming updates for 2024. We’ve packed in exciting features and improvements that will revolutionise your GameMaking process, or not 🎉

What is GameMaker? 👀
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GameMaker is the industry’s premier 2D game engine, used by thousands of developers every day to create indie gaming classics like Undertale, Hyper Light Drifter, and Chicory: A Colorful Tale.

It’s completely free, with dozens of written guides and video tutorials to help you bring your games to life.

When your project is complete, you can publish your creations to all major platforms, including PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch.

[kenan]

What? A game engine that tries to improve its developer experience and not just monetary gains? Wonderful, keep going

[Miaut]

GUI tools to set up buttons and stuff. Crossing fingers 👀

[RewdanSprites]

Loving that reference for the cost per install 🤣.

[mikilr]

I still have hope of being able to execute all the Gamemaker 1.4 projects in Gamemaker 2, this would be a Total Success. Recover hours, days, weeks, months of long work so that version 2 does not update these later.

[GlorySnowstar]

I'M JUST NOW GETTING TO UI FOR MY GAME. THIS CAME AT THE PERFECT TIME.

Also I vote this become the new default splash 9:30

[stoaty_KoDy]

at this point I think that Gurpreet is the official OC of game maker c:

[charlot]

I really appreciate you guys having CC written for these videos. So often overlooked but really helpful

[WangleLine]

I really hope we'll be getting IDE plugins this year

[mrnobody]

I'm working on an ambitious project using gamemaker. It'll rival Hotline Miami (a successful game that was made on this engine) mark my words.

[dot_soundlabs]

"It's not like we're trying to do something dumb like, idk, cost per install?" caught me off guard af, I laughed so hard

[Gadgetmawombo]

The Texture Compression you added in this last update for me is a game changer, especially for games with big texture assets. It's buggy for me but I really see the potential with it, biggest most underappreciated feature by far imo.

[luxetecnogames]

What program do you use to make games? 09:29
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Woah! I've been using Game Maker Studio for 10 years, excellent changes! Looking forward to them. Congratulations, great job.

[colin_actually]

Really great updates. Code editor, prefabs, and plugin support will absolutely make this a very tempting engine choice for me. Keep up the good work.

[JAMPLEYDEV]

It's nice that you guys are gonna to add support for other programming languages. I like GML, I just want to learn other programming languages in a familiar environment. Looking forward to the new code editor.

[BrendonReimerGameDev-xnob]

I'd absolutely love a 3d esque system for easy to use layers on a z axis. Right now I simply move layer speeds based on camera position, but would love something more friendly in the level editor.

[quickmix-streammusic]

1:24 oh the jab at a competitor 😂😂 i love it

[tuesi]

I'm so glad I chose to start with gamemaker, keep up the great work! Excited for the updates!!

[TheGrimGary]

I can definately appreciate the JS integration. But I do miss the Rollback Multiplayer idea, and I hope it makes a return after all this is up and running. =)

[romanpereyaslavskyy]

It will be great if you add SVG support.

[ollie_r]

I really love the icon/grid view of the prefab library. It would be awesome if we could get this view mode for the asset browser too! It would make picking out decorative sprites during level design so much easier. <3