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YoYo Games launches GameMaker: Studio May
22

The YoYo Games team are delighted to bring you, at long last, GameMaker: Studio! The worlds' fastest and easiest to use cross-platform games development tool.

“GameMaker: Studio is the next evolution of GameMaker technology,” says Russell Kay, chief technology officer at YoYo Games. “An impressive seven thousand developers participated in the GameMaker: Studio beta and have been instrumental in helping us deliver a tool that is ideal for independents and professional development teams.”

GameMaker: Studio features include:

Export native iOs and Android packages
Produce ready-to-run HTML5 web code for Facebook or web publishing
Export native executables for Windows and Mac
Native source control environment
Powerful scripting language and internal customizable code editor
Native physics support
Internal image editors
Advanced IDE that includes path and timeline editors

The base price for GameMaker: Studio is $99 (includes Windows and OSX exports).

HTML5 export is only an additional $99

iOS export is $199

Android export $199

An upgrade to GameMaker: Studio (including HTML5 export) for existing GameMaker: HTML5 customers is free.

*Please note, GameMaker:HTML5 will no longer be available to purchase as from today. This does not affect GameMaker Standard 8.1 or GameMaker for Mac (V.7).

GameMaker: Studio is available directly from YoYo Games only via here.

The full press release can be found here

GameMaker: Studio FAQ - http://wiki.yoyogames.com/index.php/GameMaker:Studio

GameMaker: Studio Forum - http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showforum=104

GameMaker: Studio news update May
18

Today we are officially closing the GameMaker: Studio beta. We’d like to thank the almost 8,000 beta participants for helping us gather a wealth of information and allowing us to create an exceptional tool for creating and publishing games on multiple formats.

We will be making an official announcement soon! To ensure you don’t miss any GameMaker: Studio news, please sign up for our mailing list at http://yoyogames.com.

GameMaker Community Forum restructure May
18

This week you may have noticed we have changed the Game Maker Community Forum structure around. No need to panic, everything is still there but we have improved the layout, moved threads to more appropriate places and added new sections.

Hopefully this will improve navigating better for existing members and those who will be visiting us with the launch of GameMaker: Studio. We have placed all the GameMaker family together in time for it's release. That means only one thing, it is coming..........very, very soon!

In light of this, we will be releasing some official news which will hopefully be a welcome relief to those waiting patiently for the fastest and easiest to use 2D multi-platform games development tool!

The YoYo Team

GameMaker in Education May
9

GameMaker is the software of choice for teaching game based-learning. From technology summer camps, elementary schools, high schools, and universities, GameMaker allows students to create games in a matter of hours with the only limit being one’s imagination! YoYo Games offers academic versions of GameMaker for educational purposes because GameMaker’s simplicity and extensive selection of online resources for easy lesson planning make it an excellent tool for teaching programming, technology and game design.

Techknowkids has been running a successful game design class since 1994. Techknowkids uses GameMaker for students aged 10 to 14-years-old. Organizers created a great video showing kids and parents how game development ignites imagination and creativity here: http://techknowhowkids.com/summer-camps/game-design/game-design.html.

YoYo Games will be introducing a new education resource page called GameMaker in Education that will have information, frequently asked questions, links to resources, tutorials and help with courses for both teaching staff and students. We will also have a dedicated section on the GameMaker Community for sharing materials, school science competitions, projects and opinions.

There is so much going on with GameMaker that we want to help promote and showcase organisations that teach, hold competitions and champion after school club projects. If you are a teacher currently using GameMaker, get in touch and tell us about how you use GameMaker at http://yoyogames.com/help/contact.