Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Once you learned these basics, you will very likely feel the need for something more
flexible and complex to happen in your game, at which point you can turn to its built-
in, and quite easy to learn scripting language, called Game Maker Language, to be-
gin coding stuff your own way. GameMaker even allows proficient programmers to
extend the capabilities of the engine by programming their own DLL to perform spe-
cific tasks they may need.
GameMaker has been used to develop hundreds of 2D games according to many
genre, such as platformers, maze and puzzle games, arcade shooters, and strategy
games. Even more, YoYoGames offers the opportunity to registered users to upload
games made with GameMaker on their site to show and share them with the com-
munity. A very popular game called DeathWorm, made with GameMaker, after being
largely claimed by the community of users, was eventually converted for the iOS and
downloaded from the App Store by almost 5 million people! You can check it in the
following screenshot:
The latest update of GameMaker offers support for Mac and Windows, and separate
licenses can be bought to export for the iOS, Android, and HTML5.
