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GameMaker

GameMaker (originally Animo, Game Maker (until 2011) and GameMaker Studio) is a series of cross-platform game engines created by Mark Overmars in 1999 and developed by YoYo Games since 2007. The latest iteration of GameMaker was released in 2026.

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Available in
English · French · Spanish · German · Brazilian Portuguese
Developer
YoYo Games
License
Proprietary
Operating system
Microsoft Windows · macOS · Linux
Original author
Mark Overmars
Platform
Microsoft Windows · macOS · Ubuntu · HTML5 · Android

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GameMaker

Nodes78
Edges77
Triples126
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025641
Components1

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GameMaker

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related to Supported platforms · 24
GameMaker → Amazon Fire TV, Android, Android TV, Between, Enterprise, February, GMS2, HTML5, In, May, Microsoft UWP, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Raspberry Pi, Tizen, Ubuntu, UWP
related to history · 18
GameMaker → Animo, Delphi, DirectX, DLLs, From, Game Maker, Growing, January, Mark Overmars, November, October, Overmars, Subsequent, The, VCL, Version, Versions, YoYo Games
Platform · 15
GameMaker → Amazon Fire TV, Android, Android TV, HTML5, iOS, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Ubuntu, Universal Windows Platform, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S
related to overview · 15
GameMaker → Android, APIs, Direct3D, Esoteric Software's Spine, HTML5, Linux, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, SWF, The, UWP, WebGL, While, Windows, Xbox One
Available in · 11
GameMaker → Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish
related to GameMaker Language · 9
GameMaker → C-like, GameMaker Language, GameMaker's, GML, It, JavaScript, LLVM, On HTML5, The
related to GML Visual · 8
GameMaker → Drag, Drop, GameMaker Studio, GameMaker's, GML Visual, IDE, It, While
related to Use in schools · 7
GameMaker → Constructionist, For, It, Its, Logo, Scratch, Walter Bender's Turtle Blocks
related to External links · 6
GameMaker → Game Maker, GameMaker Studio, Programming, Wikibooks Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
Operating system · 3
GameMaker → Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows

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games yoyo version studio html5 use platforms gml users scripting visual language software programming one license overmars game released originally

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GameMakerAvailable inFrench1.00infobox
GameMakerAvailable inSpanish1.00infobox
GameMakerAvailable inGerman1.00infobox
GameMakerAvailable inBrazilian Portuguese1.00infobox
GameMakerAvailable inRussian1.00infobox
GameMakerAvailable inChinese (Simplified)1.00infobox
GameMakerAvailable inPolish1.00infobox
GameMakerAvailable inItalian1.00infobox
GameMakerAvailable inKorean1.00infobox
GameMakerAvailable inJapanese1.00infobox
GameMakerDeveloperYoYo Games1.00infobox
GameMakerLicenseProprietary1.00infobox
GameMakerOperating systemMicrosoft Windows1.00infobox
GameMakerOperating systemmacOS1.00infobox
GameMakerOperating systemLinux1.00infobox
GameMakerOriginal authorMark Overmars1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformMicrosoft Windows1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformmacOS1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformUbuntu1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformHTML51.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformAndroid1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformiOS1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformAmazon Fire TV1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformAndroid TV1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformUniversal Windows Platform1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformPlayStation 41.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformPlayStation 51.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformXbox One1.00infobox
GameMakerPlatformXbox Series X/S1.00infobox

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