blog - posts_by Mark Alexander

Todays tech blog is courtesy of Greg Lobanov and discusses the use of triangles to generate the unique aesthetic used in his game Wandersong, which...read_more

In this tech blog we're going to give you an overview of a new and much requested feature that's been added to GameMaker Studio...read_more

The latest GameMaker Studio 2 update (2.1.5) has added a new collision mask kind to the Sprite Editor. This addition is the rotated rectangle collision...read_more

If you've ever had to make any type of enemy movement in a game (especially a top down game) the chances are that you've...read_more

Today's Tech Blog is courtesy of Hannes “Ariak” Schmieding, and it covers an interesting alternative to using "depth = -y" for depth sorting in...read_more

In this tech blog we want to discuss a couple of features that new users to GameMaker Studio (and even some veterans!) may not...read_more

The following piece was written by Julian Adams, originally for the development blog of Ruin of the Reckless. He has been kind enough to...read_more

Many people who use GameMaker to make mobile games start out with the Android module due to its accessibility and ease of use. Basically, if...read_more

The 1.4 update to GameMaker: Studio is perhaps the most important to date. Apart from greatly increasing the UI stability and adding new features,...read_more

The 1.4 update to GameMaker: Studio is perhaps the most important to date. Apart from greatly increasing the UI stability and adding new features,...read_more

Quite often we have people enquiring about what they see as odd results using surfaces, most specifically to do with unexpected transparent effects when...read_more