Game Maker
The GameMaker: Studio™ family of products caters to entry-level novices and seasoned game development professionals equally, allowing them to create casual and social games for, iOS, Android, desktop and the Web (HTML5) in record time and at a fraction of the cost!
As well as making games development 80 percent faster than coding for native languages, developers can create fully functional prototypes in just a few hours, and a full game in just a matter of weeks.
And when you're done, GameMaker: Studio™ will produce an "app store"-ready iOS, Android or OS X app, Windows executable or HTML5 code, all at the push of a button and all from the same source code.
Discover how easy it is for yourself and get access to GameMaker: Studio™'s key features – including its easy to use integrated development environment (IDE) powerful scripting language and Box 2D Physics – by simply downloading GameMaker: Studio™ for free.
GameMaker: Studio™ – Key Features
| Feature | Studio | Standard | Professional | Master |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (USD) | FREE | $49.99 | $99.99 | $499.99 |
| Unlimited Resources | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mac OS X Export | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows PC Export | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows 8 Export | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Texture Management | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple Configurations | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Team Features | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Developer Services Portal (DSP) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile Testing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| iOS Export | No | No | +$199.99 | Yes |
| Android Export | No | No | +$199.99 | Yes |
| HTML5 Export | No | No | +$99.99 | Yes |
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 or 7
- 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
Games on iOS
- Mac OS X computer required for export
- iOS 3.2 or abve
- 2nd-gen iPod Touch or iPhone 3G and above
Games on Android
- Android phone or tablet
- Android 2.2 (Froyo) and above
Multi-format Export
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, Mac OS X, iOS*, Android* and HTML5* - and more to be announced soon - GameMaker: Studio™ is the fastest and simplest way to develop multi-platform games for mobile devices, home computers and the web.Developer Services Portal (DSP)
To help easily monetize and analyze their games, GameMaker: Studio™ gives developers unprecedented access to, and removes the technical hassle of connecting with, some of the biggest advertisers, analytics and engagement services on mobile and web.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
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.
Team Features
GameMaker: Studio™ also includes a comprehensive source control scheme, to make working on a project within a team easier than ever before.Currently incorporating Subversion (SVN), and with more solutions on the way, GameMaker: Studio™ is the only development tool your team needs to get things done in record time.