Blog - Tech

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