Shaders are often used to create beautiful graphical effects in games. They are also among the most advanced features offered by GameMaker Studio 2, but I will try to explain everything as simply as possible in this post.

In the second part of this series, we are going to explain how to compile a final executable as an APK file and upload it to the Amazon Appstore so you can make it available to the public.

We are excited about the all-new Amazon Fire edition for GameMaker Studio 2 (GMS2), letting developers create and publish Amazon Appstore games directly from the GameMaker IDE. To celebrate our partnership, we have released a series of tutorials on developing  with GameMaker.

Welcome to the final GameMaker Basics entry! In this post, I'll cover hitboxes and hurtboxes. For example, how do they work? How do you set them up? How do you balance them? I thought this would be a great place to address questions like these.

Welcome to the first part of our Amazon Fire tech blogs. In this blog post, we will take you through setting up GameMaker Studio 2 and testing your game on an Amazon Fire device.

This is the second part in our series about setting up source control in GameMaker Studio 2. In this post, we will cover how to deal with merge conflicts.

In our third GameMaker basics post, we are going to talk about adding some juice to your character movements and animations. This will help you squeeze some more life and feeling out of your games, and improve the quality of your games overall.

Welcome to the second entry in our GameMaker Basics series. If you are following along from the previous entry, great! We will be picking up right where we left off. Today we are going to set up a simple state machine.

In this four part series, guest blogger, Nathan Ranney, covers the basics of developing with GameMaker. This post explores setting up and animating sprites.