GameMaker: Studio™ Free

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Fast, cross-platform games development

Immediately get started creating a high quality game then publish native executables for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X with a resource limited FREE version of GameMaker: Studio™.

GameMaker: Studio™ – Key Features

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

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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.

Compare the GameMaker: Studio™ family

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

GameMaker: Studio™ Free – Limitations

Feature Limit
Rooms 5
Sprites 20
Sounds 10
Objects 15
Backgrounds 5
Timelines 5
Scripts 10
Fonts 5
Paths 10
Included files 5

Excluded features

The following features are not available in GameMaker: Studio™ Free:

  • Configurations
  • External Resource Loading
  • Texture Grouping
  • Extensions
  • Export Modules
  • Team Source Control
  • Developer Services Portal

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 Mac OS X

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