Design 2D games for desktop (Windows, Mac, Ubuntu), web (HTML5), UWP, Android, iOS, PS4 and Xbox One platforms, no coding skills required

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GameMaker Studio 2. GameMaker Studio 2 is the latest and greatest incarnation of GameMaker! It has everything you need to take your idea from concept to finished game. With no barriers to entry and powerful functionality, GameMaker Studio 2 is the ultimate 2D development environment! Welcome to the GameMaker Studio 2 user manual! This document is divided into three parts with the aim of getting you introduced to the interface and basic workings of GameMaker Studio 2 before going on to more advanced usage and the functions available through our propriety scripting language GML or our visual scripting tool Drag and Drop. GameMaker Studio has a proprietary language named GameMaker Language (GML). It's similar to C and has predefined functions that can be easily called from the code editor.

What's new in GameMaker Studio 2.2.3 Build 433:

• Fixed Windows IDE 'deadlock' issue:
• Fixed 0030271, which fixes a number of issues, including Windows Explorer dialogs not appearing for New/Open/Import, the manual/Marketplace/My Account just showing a white panel, and starting/stopping builds causing the IDE to hang.
• Fixed various causes of startup crashes
• The same Deadlock change also fixed a number of the reported startup crashes in 0030245

If you've always wondered what it would be like to create your own video game but lacked the necessary coding skills, you can use GameMaker Studio to give it a try, although we're willing to bet you would immediately immerse yourself into it (we know we did).

Create 2D games without any coding skills

Dedicated to 2D games only, the tool can help you design games from scratch for any platform when it comes to desktops (Windows, Mac, Ubuntu), web (HTML5), Microsoft UWP, mobiles (Android, iOS), Playstation 4, and Xbox One. The unregistered edition can be used for free (non-commercial purposes), without time limit and with reasonable feature limitations. It offers everything required to get familiarized with the IDE.

Because getting started can be confusing, you can explore demo projects made available by the developer as well as watch YouTube tutorials that show every step, accompanied by descriptions and explanations for users who don't have the slightest clue about programming languages.

Watch a tutorial to design your first game from scratch

For example, to create a copy of the original 'Asteroids' game, you have to create the room that contain the player and asteroids, wrap it to make sure you can 'go through walls' and come back on the other side, and draw or import images (sprites) to represent your player and asteroids.

You can also make the ship gain speed by going up, rotate to left and right by creating events (the trigger) and associated actions, keep track of the score, destroy the ship when it collides with an asteroid or destroy the asteroid when it gets hit by a bullet, and so on. The game can have sound effects (shooting, explosion on asteroid destruction), along with a 'Game Over!' screen.

Has proprietary, intuitive coding language inspired by C

GameMaker Studio has a proprietary language named GameMaker Language (GML). It's similar to C and has predefined functions that can be easily called from the code editor. The help manual has all the necessary definitions and examples for each line of code, and there's also code completion standing by for assistance. In addition to GML, you can drag and drop (DnD) functions from boxes, which particularly comes in handy when you can't remember functions but don't need to customize them (e.g. room wrapping).

Rooms can have multiple layers, such as the background and instances. You can load custom fonts and tile sets, design timelines, and learn about object inheritance. All opened resources can be effortlessly explored in the workspace by dragging with the mouse wheel. The game can be compiled, run and built every step of the way to see if you've made any mistakes with the code (popup errors) or game's logic (e.g. asteroids not exploding on bullet hits).

Makes 2D game designing addictive and fun

GameMaker Studio is very easy to use and becomes really addictive (from our experience). Of course, it helps if you have basic understanding of how programming languages work. Once you get the hang of it, 2D game designing can even step outside the hobby box and become an actual job.

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• Limited resources:
• 15 Objects
• 20 Sprites
• 5 Rooms
• 10 Sounds
• 2 Tilesets
• 10 Scripts
• 5 Paths
• 2 Timelines
• No extensions
• No included files
• No shaders
• No executable reation
• No expert features:
• Shaders
• Integrated source control
• Texture groups
• Texture size select
• SWF support
• Spine support
• Etensions
• Runtime external resources (sprite_add)
• Limited support:
• All account, download and setup issues should be resolved by contacting support through the Help Center
• For any development issues or help with your game, you should use the GameMaker Community

• Minimum:
• 64bit Intel compatible Dual Core CPU
• 2GB RAM
• DX11 compliant graphics card
• Microsoft Windows 7 (64bit only, Service Pack 1 or above)
• HDD with at least 3GB free disk space
• Internet Connection
• Recommended:
• 64bit Intel compatible Quad Core CPU
• 8GB RAM
• DX11 based graphics card
• Microsoft Windows 10 (64bit only)
• SSD with at least 3GB free disk space
• Internet Connection

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