The GameMaker: Studio™ Family

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The GameMaker: Studio™ Family
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Studio™ Standard $49.99 Learn more Buy now
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Master Collection $499.99 Learn more Buy now

Fast, cross-platform games development

The GameMaker: Studio™ family of products caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create casual and social games for, iOS, Android, desktop and the Web (HTML5) in record time and at a fraction of the cost!

As well as making games development 80 percent faster than coding for native languages, developers can create fully functional prototypes in just a few hours, and a full game in just a matter of weeks.

And when you're done, GameMaker: Studio™ will produce an "app store"-ready iOS, Android or OS X app, Windows executable or HTML5 code, all at the push of a button and all from the same source code.

Discover how easy it is for yourself and get access to GameMaker: Studio™'s key features – including its easy to use integrated development environment (IDE) powerful scripting language and Box 2D Physics – by simply downloading GameMaker: Studio™ for free.

GameMaker: Studio™ – Key Features

Feature Studio MIPS Edition Standard Professional Master
Price (USD) FREE FREE $49.99 $99.99 $499.99
Unlimited Resources No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Mac OS X Export Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Windows PC Export Yes Test only Yes Yes Yes
Windows 8 Export yes No Yes Yes Yes
Texture Management No Yes No Yes Yes
Multiple Configurations No Yes No Yes Yes
Team Features No Yes No Yes Yes
Developer Services Portal (DSP) no Yes no Yes Yes
Mobile Testing no Yes no Yes Yes
Android Export – x86, ARM and MIPS No MIPS only No +$199.99 Yes
HTML5 Export No No No +$99.99 Yes
iOS Export No No No +$199.99 Yes
Ubuntu Export No No No +$99.99 Yes
Windows Phone 8 Export No No No +$199.99 Yes
Automatic upgrade to future export modules No No No No Yes
Download Free Download MIPS Buy Standard Buy Professional Buy Master

Multi-format Export

multiformat

When combined with additional export modules, GameMaker: Studio™ can take your game's single codebase and produce ready-to-run executables and store-ready apps for multiple platforms with a single click. With modules already available for Microsoft Windows including Windows 8, Mac OS X, iOS*, Android*, HTML5* and Windows Phone 8* - and more coming soon - GameMaker: Studio™ is the fastest and simplest way to develop multi-platform games for mobile devices, home computers and the web.

*Only available for GameMaker: Studio™ Professional and Master Collection

Find out more about multi-format export

Developer Services Portal (DSP)

Developer Services Portal (DSP)

To help easily monetize and analyze their games, GameMaker: Studio™ gives developers unprecedented access to, and removes the technical hassle of connecting with, some of the biggest advertisers, analytics and engagement services on mobile and web.

Find out more about Developer Services

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

The GameMaker: Studio™ IDE has everything that you need to deal with fonts, sounds, images and music, as well as other resources that you may need for creating your game. It enables you to define game entities, known as 'objects', and their behaviours in an intuitive, event-driven way and has an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface.

Powerful Scripting Language – GML

Powerful Scripting Language - GML

With GameMaker: Studio™'s built-in GameMaker Language (GML), you can control every last detail of your game – pathfinding, physics, object interaction, particles, data structures and more…

And should you find that even that is still not enough for your project, you can easily expand GameMaker: Studio™ by using GML extensions – or creating your own – to include social networking, payment systems or any other feature you can think of.

Team Features

Team Features

GameMaker: Studio™ also includes a comprehensive source control scheme, to make working on a project within a team easier than ever before.

Currently incorporating Subversion (SVN), and with more solutions on the way, GameMaker: Studio™ is the only development tool your team needs to get things done in record time.


System Requirements

GameMaker: Studio™ IDE

  • Windows XP, Vista, 7 or Windows 8
  • 512MB RAM
  • 128MB graphics
  • Screen resolution of 1024×600

Games on Windows

  • Windows XP, Vista, 7 or 8
  • 512MB RAM
  • 128MB graphics

Games on Windows 8

  • Windows 8
  • 512MB RAM
  • 128MB graphics

Games on Ubuntu

  • Computer running Ubuntu required for export
  • Ubuntu 12.04 or above
  • OpenGL-capable graphics card with valid driver
  • 512MB RAM

Games on Mac OS X

  • Mac OS X computer required for export
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • 1GB RAM

Games on iOS
Requires the iOS export module

  • Mac OS X computer required for export
  • iOS 4.3 or abve
  • 3rd-gen iPod Touch or iPhone 3GS and above

Games on Android
Requires the Android export module

  • Android phone or tablet
  • Android 2.2 (Froyo) and above

Games on Windows Phone 8
Requires the Windows Phone 8 export module

  • Windows Phone 8 SDK required for export – SDK requirements
  • Windows Phone 8 device