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