GameMaker for Windows

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Do you want to develop computer games without spending countless hours learning how to become a programmer? Then you've come to the right place. GameMaker allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code. Making games with GameMaker is a lot of fun!

GameMaker 8.1

Design your very own games using easy-to-learn drag-and-drop actions – you can create professional-quality games within very little time. You can make games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects. And when you've become more experienced, there is an easy built-in programming GameMaker Language (GML), which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with GameMaker.

You can do anything you want with the games you produce, you can even sell them! See the successful games already in our showcase. GameMaker comes preloaded with a collection of freeware images and sounds to get you started.

Made with GameMaker

Froad Grave Maker Rick O'Shea Reflexions Pollushot Ninjammin Beat-jitsu

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.

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Try GameMaker

If you want to try out GameMaker before you buy, you can do so free of charge! Download GameMaker 8.1 Lite now to try out this amazing application!

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 Yes Yes
Backgrounds, sprites & images Yes Yes
Animated graphics Yes Yes
Rotate sprites Yes Yes
Internal image editor Yes Yes
Modify resources at run-time – sprites, backgrounds, paths etc. No Yes
Particle effects No Yes
3D graphics No Yes
Full-screen anti-aliasing No Yes
3D hardware acceleration No Yes
Off-screen surfaces – for rendering dynamic textures No Yes
Interstitial screens – loading screens, videos No Yes
Font control Yes Yes
Advanced text drawing – rotation etc. No Yes
Sound effects & music Yes Yes
Audio processing effects – reverb, delay etc. No Yes
3D sound No Yes
Built-in data structures – stacks, lists, dictionaries, queues etc. No Yes
Paths and timelines Yes Yes
AI pathfinding No Yes
Internal code editor – with user-definable syntax colouring Yes Yes
GameMaker Language (GML) – highly flexible scripting language Yes Yes
Extensions – using custom external DLLs No Yes
Packaged with images and sounds – freeware samples Yes Yes
Auto-updater – for updates and bug fixes Yes Yes
Create executables Yes Yes
GameMaker watermark on executables Yes No
Price (USD) Free $39.99
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System requirements

  • Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
  • DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory
  • Pentium or equivalent processor
  • DirectX 8-compatible sound card
  • 156MB of memory or greater
  • 800x600 or greater screen resolution with 16-bit or 32-bit colors

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