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Welcome to the YoYo Games Game Maker Wiki

The purpose of the YoYo Games Wiki is to provide a lot of information about the creation of games with Game Maker. Everybody is invited to contribute. Feel free to improve on posts of others.

We have, in total, 740 useful articles!

Featured Article

INI Files - INI comes from initilisation. INI files are text files made up of Sections and Keys. To demonstrate the concept here is an example of the contents of an INI file...

Featured Function

Show_message_ext() - This will show your message string just like show_message but will allow you to have up to 3 user-defined buttons...

Getting started with this Wiki

To find out more information about any function in GML, simply search for it in the search bar to the left. Do not, however, include the brackets of the function. If you would like to contribute to the wiki, see the How To Get Started guide below.

Quick Links

Here are some links to particularly useful pages for beginners and advanced users alike.

Game Maker

Game Maker Basics contains topics for beginners.
Game Maker Advanced contains topics for more advanced users.
Game Maker Functions contains information about all Game Maker functions
Game Maker Variables contains information about all Game Maker variables

Platform Games contains topics on platform games.

Magazines devoted to Game Maker.
Books devoted to Game Maker.

Designing Games

Game Design Gives links to pages on how to design good games.
Resources Gives links to pages on how to get or create resources like sprites and sounds.
Distributing Games Gives links to page on how to distribute or sell your games.
Marketing Your Games on the YoYo Games website.