GameMaker for Windows

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Are you new to game development? Do you have great ideas for games, but don't have the programming ability to make them a reality? Or are you an experienced designer, artist or programmer who just wants to speed up your game development process?

Whatever level of experience you have, GameMaker for Windows will provide you with the tools you need to make exciting games, quickly and easily.

GameMaker 8.1

Offering a drag-and-drop interface for rapid design and iteration of gameplay features, graphics and sound, as well as a fully-featured integrated development environment (IDE) and a flexible, built-in scripting language (GML, GameMaker Language), GameMaker for Windows is the perfect low-cost tool for quick, easy games development for Microsoft Windows.

Or if you're interested in multi-platform development, including HTML5 web applications and mobile devices, take a look at our flagship product, GameMaker: Studio™. As well as add-on export modules, GameMaker: Studio™ also includes a host of new features like built-in physics and source control management.

Made with GameMaker

See what's possible with GameMaker! The Game Showcase contains a complete list of the great games made with GameMaker and published by YoYo Games on iOS, Android, Symbian and in HTML5.

Try GameMaker

If you want to try out GameMaker for Windows before you buy, you can download GameMaker 8.1 Lite now.

Key features

A side-by-side comparison of features in the Full and Lite versions of GameMaker 8.1:

Feature	Lite	Full
Price (USD)	Free	$39.99
Drag & drop interface
Backgrounds, sprites & images
Animated graphics
Rotate sprites
Internal image editor
Modify resources at run-time – sprites, backgrounds, paths etc.
Particle effects
3D graphics
Full-screen anti-aliasing
3D hardware acceleration
Off-screen surfaces – for rendering dynamic textures
Interstitial screens – loading screens, videos
Font control
Advanced text drawing – rotation etc.
Sound effects & music
Audio processing effects – reverb, delay etc.
3D sound
Built-in data structures – stacks, lists, dictionaries, queues etc.
Paths and timelines
AI pathfinding
Internal code editor – with user-definable syntax colouring
GameMaker Language (GML) – highly flexible scripting language
Extensions – using custom external DLLs
Packaged with images and sounds – freeware samples
Auto-updater – for updates and bug fixes
Create executables
GameMaker watermark on executables
Price (USD)	Free	$39.99
	Try	Buy