GameMaker: Studio™ now supports publishing to Linux for the first time, with GameMaker: Studio™ Ubuntu Export.

As the world’s third most popular desktop operating system, Ubuntu reaches 20 million users around the globe, providing a new marketplace for the GameMaker development community to distribute and monetize games.

With GameMaker: Studio™ Ubuntu Export it couldn’t be easier to publish games to the Ubuntu Software Center and take advantage of this opportunity to reach a new audience. Developers can simply export their newly created and pre-existing games as an Ubuntu Software Center-ready application, all from the one code base and all at the touch of a button.

Bring your newly-created and pre-existing games to a flourishing new market with the Windows Phone 8 Export Module. With its one click exporting capability, GameMaker: Studio™ makes publishing to Microsoft’s Windows Phone Store a quick and easy process, as well as giving developers access to some of the great features of the new Windows Phone with its Start screen and Live Tiles.

Note: only available for GameMaker: Studio™ Professional and Master Collection

By creating Windows Store ready applications, GameMaker: Studio™ allows you to integrate with the new, fast and fluid Start screen, with access to Live Tiles, Snap View and Charms as well as allowing you to target multiple Windows 8 devices, from tablets to laptops to all-in-one devices.

Note: only available for GameMaker: Studio™ Standard, Professional and Master Collection

Find out more about Windows 8 Export

GameMaker: Studio™ makes it easy to develop for Android by streamlining the process of ensuring your app's compatibility with the different hardware and screen resolutions across the entire range of Android handsets, tablets and other devices.

With more than 400 million devices sold by mid-2012, Android is an operating system that brings the power of Google and the web into your hands. Android creates ways to connect and share the latest apps through the world’s biggest Android marketplaces including the Google Play store, Barnes and Noble's 'NOOK Apps', Amazon's 'Appstore for Android' and 'Samsung Apps' to name but a few.

Note: only available for GameMaker: Studio™ Professional and Master Collection

Share your project using GameMaker: Studio™ simply by embedding the generated HTML5 and JavaScript code on blogs, forums and websites - including Facebook. Web development gives you the opportunity to reach an unprecedented marketplace audience of more than a billion people, and with the emerging HTML5 standard you can now create games and applications that will run natively in a browser without requiring any third-party plugins.

Note: only available for GameMaker: Studio™ Professional and Master Collection

GameMaker: Studio™ allows you to export your game as a native app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices which can then be submitted like any other XCode application to the App Store – the world's largest application platform, which has had more than 25 billion apps downloaded since mid-2008.

Note: only available for GameMaker: Studio™ Professional and Master Collection

GameMaker: Studio™ has been optimized for the two largest home computer platforms, which means you can create and publish your title either as a downloadable game, or box it up on disc for store shelves – the choice is all yours.

With the ability to create native executables for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X included as the core modules of GameMaker: Studio™, you'll be able to build and distribute your games to home computer users around the world with minimum fuss and effort.