Game Maker 8.1

GameMaker Standard 8.1 was announced on April 15, 2011. The changes included many interface improvements, due to constant criticism from the community regarding GameMaker's interface. In addition, GameMaker Standard 8.1 also runs much faster and has cut down the time for certain actions to perform. This makes it easier for less powerful systems to create and run GameMaker games. Finally, two new constants have been added, os_type, and os_device, to assist with development for multiple platforms, as well as two new GML commands, and.