GameMaker

Released: May 3, 2022
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 02:10 GMT

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03 Jun 2026Developer post
LTS 2026.0 Release (IDE 16, GMS2 RT 23)
GameMaker LTS 2026 is now here and is the default release as of today, replacing the old "Monthly" versions. This release introduces a number of new editors, a new particle asset type, changes to the targets available to you, Code Editor 2, and much more. For those of you coming
31 Mar 2026Developer post
2024.14.4 fixes
In-Game: part_system_get_info's struct will have the particle type set to undefined if the system asset's emitter has a negative particle count ( In-Game: Game window doesn't appear ( In-Game: vertex_submit_ext() ignores offset on frozen vertex buffers ( In-Game: RNG-Related Func
In-Game: part_system_get_info's struct will have the particle type set to undefined if the system asset's emitter has a negative particle count [#14439](https://github.com/YoYoGames/GameMaker-Bugs/issues/14439)
In-Game: Game window doesn't appear [#14431](https://github.com/YoYoGames/GameMaker-Bugs/issues/14431)
In-Game: [GX.games] vertex_submit_ext() ignores offset on frozen vertex buffers [#14460](https://github.com/YoYoGames/GameMaker-Bugs/issues/14460)
In-Game: [HTML5] RNG-Related Functions Cause HTML5 Crash [#14435](https://github.com/YoYoGames/GameMaker-Bugs/issues/14435)
In-Game: [iOS] Tap gestures are not registered/event called properly on XCode 26.4 [#1448](https://github.com/YoYoGames/GameMaker-Bugs/issues/14448)
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26 Mar 2026Developer post
2024.14.4 Release
An important new release as we proceed ever closer to the upcoming LTS 2026 release. Note that this one has quite a few new features as well as a large number of bug fixes, so there are too many things to mention here. Please do ensure that you read the release notes page very ca
27 Jan 2026Developer post
2024.14.3 Update Release
2024.14.3 continues to bring more of the features and improvements targeted ahead of LTS 2026. Note that this release does add or change quite a few important bits of functionality, so please do read the full release notes carefully (linked below). As just a few of the changes: *
18 Dec 2025Developer post
2024.14.2 Update Release (IDE 213/RT 256)
A small, but very important release to bring fixes for the top issues reported to us since the original .2 release last week: plugin safe mode, HTML5 builds, Vsync, dot notation in GML Visual, and gamepads. For all the info on these 6 fixes, please see the full release notes:
11 Dec 2025Developer post
2024.14.2 Update Release
2024.14.2 continues to bring more of the features and improvements targeted ahead of LTS 2026. Note that this release does change quite a few important bits of functionality, especially on Windows, so please do read the full release notes carefully (linked below). * Prefabs have
19 Nov 2025Developer post
2024.14.1 Update Release
2024.14.1 builds on the original 2024.14 release to bring more of the features and improvements targeted ahead of LTS 2026. Note that this release does change quite a few important bits of functionality, so please do read the release notes carefully (linked below). Logins have ch
2024.14.1 builds on the original 2024.14 release to bring more of the features and improvements targeted ahead of LTS 2026.
Note that this release does change quite a few important bits of functionality, so please do read the release notes carefully (linked below).

Logins have changed to a more reliable newer system, and the UI for this has had a refresh also
GameMaker is now better at informing you/us when there has been a crash or it has gone unstable (so you may see more requests to send us a crash report)
GameMaker is also now better at catching a number of coding mistakes in your projects (so you may see more Code Error dialogs when testing your game).
For the full info, please see the release notes: https://releases.gamemaker.io/release-notes/2024/14_1
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07 Nov 2025Developer post
2024.14.0 Release
2024.14 is the last major release before our new LTS release next year. 2024.14 is all planned out in terms of the remaining features to be added, but as we prepare ourselves for that forthcoming LTS, there will be more 2024.14 updates as the remaining issues intended for the LTS
17 Apr 2025Developer post
2024.13.1 Update Release
A small, but very important update to fix a number of the top runtime/in-game issues reported after the original release. For all of the details, please see the 2024.13 release notes page .
08 Apr 2025Developer post
2024.13 Release
GameMaker 2024.13 is here, bringing UI layers, the Prefab Library, and SVG Support. Also: Code Editor 2 has received numerous stability improvements and bug fixes Marketplace integration has been removed from the IDE and any uploading and downloading of assets must be done throug
GameMaker 2024.13 is here, bringing UI layers, the Prefab Library, and SVG Support.
Also:

Code Editor 2 has received numerous stability improvements and bug fixes
Marketplace integration has been removed from the IDE and any uploading and downloading of assets must be done through the website - you can then drag your downloaded packages onto GameMaker in order to import them
The new Project Health window now warns you if the source images for any sprites are missing from the project
Camera access and tilt support in GX.games exports
And much, much more... (Seriously - this is a massive release!)
For more on the headline changes briefly mentioned above, see the blog post for 2024.13
And for all the information, please see the full release notes for 2024.13
As mentioned above, this is a very large release, so please do review the release notes carefully and be aware that not all fixes/changes are listed.
If something is behaving differently in your games now, please search the release notes and the changelist for the name of the function that's now working differently and see if a change has been made that you now need to react to.
Similarly, ensure you're using the correct tools and Game Options values, as some of these requirements have changed - see the release notes for specifics.
Happy GameMaking!
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17 Dec 2024Developer post
2024.11 Release
Welcome to the 2024.11 release of GameMaker! Alongside a wide array of stability and performance fixes, this one introduces: The option to enable a beta of the new code editor if you want The ability to have unused assets not be included in your game export packages New export pa
Welcome to the 2024.11 release of GameMaker!
Alongside a wide array of stability and performance fixes, this one introduces:

The option to enable a beta of the new code editor if you want
The ability to have unused assets not be included in your game export packages
New export packages in the form of Windows ARM architecture support and being able to export a .zip from the GX.games target so that you could host the game on your own website
New functions for manipulating your game windows on desktop OSes, plus for inverting a matrix
More error-checking on audio functions and new error dialogs/warnings for other functions as you use them within your games, so coding mistakes can be caught and fixed far more easily
And a lot more!
For more on the highlights, see the release blog for 2024.11
And for the full info on everything changed in 2024.11, see the release notes
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10 Sep 2024Developer post
2024.8.1 Update Release
A small, but important release to fix the 7 top issues found in the original 2024.8.0 release. This includes a couple of project tool fixes and several in-game bugs fixed. Please see the release notes page for the full info on these changes.
03 Sep 2024Developer post
2024.8 Release
GameMaker 2024.8 is here, bringing a vast number of stability fixes and performance improvements. There have been several IDE fixes for stutters when moving windows or writing code, and also for startup crashes on some user's systems caused by OS permissions problems or antivirus
15 Jul 2024Developer post
Update 2024.6.2
- We implemented a fix for the intermittent start-up crash that some users are experiencing in 2024.6 ( If you are one of those users, please do let us know if this is fixed for you by commenting on the GitHub issue above - Repetitively creating assets using the hot keys caused a
09 Jul 2024Developer post
2024.6.1 Update Release
A small release to fix the top issues since the original .6.0 release - you can find all the info on the release notes below, but in short... On the IDE side, turned Vsync back on to stop flickering/tearing (and possibly also occasional startup crashes) and stops a problem with t
02 Jul 2024Developer post
2024.6 Release
This release introduces ray-casting in your games, access to a surface's depth and stencil buffers, the ability to place text in your rooms inside the editor (and manipulate it later on in-game, if you wish), a lot of new additions to the in-game debug GUI functionality, and more
22 May 2024Developer post
2024.4.1 Update Release
A small but very important update to the April release which fixes a number of hotkey issues such as not being able to press certain keys at certain times, problems being unable to build certain iOS extensions, some in-game tweaks to collisions so that you get the same results as
02 May 2024Developer post
2024.4 Release
This release focuses on fixing lots of issues found in earlier GameMaker versions and increasing general performance and stability in various parts of the product. Release Blog: The IDE has an emphasis on saving and loading fixes, plus hotkeys and UI/UX workflow issues. This rele
04 Mar 2024Developer post
2024.2 Release
IDE v2024.2.0.132 Runtime v2024.2.0.163 You can see all the changes and fixes by checking the milestone page for this release , but in summary 2024.2 brings a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements already (especially in-game, but also a number of stability and project-loa
IDE v2024.2.0.132 Runtime v2024.2.0.163
You can see all the changes and fixes by checking the milestone page for this release, but in summary 2024.2 brings a lot of bug fixes and performance improvements already (especially in-game, but also a number of stability and project-loading fixes in the IDE).
In terms of new features and notable changes, you will find:

Projects are now saved/loaded in a new format and there have been multiple changes to sort entries in a predictable manner and avoid source control conflicts
Sequences now have audio effect tracks, so you can manipulate the audio in your Sequences over time
The code editor and compiler will now better catch functions which have not had all required arguments provided
#macro definitions now support inheritance (as was always implied by the IDE using a tree for the configs editor)
Tilemaps are now compressed in your rooms
Static functions now have non-anonymous names to help with debugging issues
The in-game debug UI dialogs have had a number of fixes/additions and there have been various fixes to the Debugger inside the IDE
There is a new gml_pragma() option "optimise" for HTML5 games to turn on/off further JS optimisations
A new Gaussian Blur filter has been added for you to use in your games
And also:

Fixed that borderless games would still resize themselves when using async dialogs, despite not being exclusive fullscreen
Fixed issues with building Extensions on case-sensitive operating systems
And there have been a number of tweaks and improvements for the in-IDE bug reporting tool so it's even smoother and easier to send us a report when issues do occur
Be aware that due to the changes in project format, 2024 IDEs will no longer allow you to set 2023-and-older runtimes as active and they will not appear in the table in Preferences > Runtime Feeds. Projects created/edited in 2024 IDEs can generally be used in older IDEs, so that's not a problem, but if you need to use older runtimes to create or build your projects, then you need to use the matching older IDE also.
For more on what's new in this February 2024 release, see the release blog post.
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15 Dec 2023Developer post
2023.11.1 Update Release
A small-but-important release to fix many of the hotkeys issues found in the 11.0 release, plus an issue with in-game where you could not hold down both the left and right mouse buttons without "one resetting the other" in some circumstances. For the full list of the fixes in thi

GameMaker

Updates & announcements

LTS 2026.0 Release (IDE 16, GMS2 RT 23)

2024.14.4 fixes

2024.14.4 Release

Windows IDE Crash Fixes

Do Read The Release Notes!

2024.14.3 Update Release

2024.14.2 Update Release (IDE 213/RT 256)

2024.14.2 Update Release

2024.14.1 Update Release

2024.14.0 Release

2024.13.1 Update Release

2024.13 Release

2024.11 Release

2024.8.1 Update Release

2024.8 Release

Update 2024.6.2

2024.6.1 Update Release

2024.6 Release

2024.4.1 Update Release

2024.4 Release

2024.2 Release

2023.11.1 Update Release