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Vladimir Fedyushkin and Nicolai Danielsen are working on Jet Lancer! Nicolai has written the following blog on how they use 2D and 3D tricks within GameMaker...read_more

OVERVIEWAs there are some minor changes coming to GameMaker Studio 2 update 2.2.1 in regards to surfaces, I thought this would be an opportunity...read_more

Tyler Thompson from Falcon Development breaks down the colorful tricks he used when developing Cattials (available now on Nintendo Switch).Cattails is a game with a lot...read_more

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

The GUI layer is a powerful beast, and you can do all kinds of cool things with it, but it's also one of the...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

So this is a quick one, but incredibly cool and valuable. When drawing to the screen (or a surface), most people only think about...read_more

One of the more advanced things developers want to do is create their own 2D lighting engine, but the reality of it sometimes gets...read_more