awesome-gamemaker
A curated list of awesome libraries, snippets, guides, and projects for GameMaker.
https://github.com/bytecauldron/awesome-gamemaker
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Utilities
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Recommendations
- Figgy - Centralized and persistent live configs for seamless game tuning and balancing.
- JITSpeak - Improves Catspeak performance.
- RenderStack - Organize your game's rendering into a customizable order.
- GMLiteSearch - Fast, flexible full‑text search for GameMaker. Built for small to medium datasets (10k‑50k+ docs) with real‑time indexing, fuzzy search, n‑grams, BM25/TF‑IDF scoring, and persistence.
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YouTube
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Recommendations
- Jordan Guillou - Hobbyist indie dev with a few GameMaker-related tutorials.
- DragoniteSpam - Covers highly technical elements of GameMaker with a focus on 3D.
- Shaun Spalding - Previous community manager at YoYo Games. Has a wide variety of beginner-friendly GameMaker tutorials and helpful updates on new GameMaker features.
- FriendlyCosmonaut - Great playlist on building a farming RPG in GameMaker with several other tutorials.
- Pixelated Pope - Guides on GameMaker resolution management, cameras, GUI, and more.
- Xor - Tons of shader demonstrations with a focus on 3D.
- GamingEngineer - A GameMaker developer that has been in the community for many years. They have a wide variety videos showcasing what GameMaker is capable of, with a focus on 3D.
- TheSnidr - A lot of awesome 3D showcases and tutorials for GameMaker.
- Peyton Burnham - GameMaker tutorials for top-down shooters and RPGs.
- Gaming Reverends - If you want to learn foundational material regarding GameMaker shaders, the "Shaders for Hobby-Programmers" playlist is definitely worth checking out.
- Let's Learn This Together - Small indie dev company with a focus on providing GameMaker guides.
- Matharoo - Tons of free GameMaker tutorials and news about GameMaker.
- GravityShift Games - A couple of genre-specific GameMaker tutorials, integrating databases into GameMaker, and more.
- Slyddar - A channel dedicated to both DnD and GML tutorials.
- SamSpadeGameDev - In-depth coding tutorials for the hobbyist game maker.
- gentoo's iceberg Playlist - Series based on iceberg to display advanced programming ideas in GameMaker.
- gentoo's iceberg Playlist - Series based on iceberg to display advanced programming ideas in GameMaker.
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Useful Extras
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Utilities
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3D
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Shaders
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User Interface
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Audio
22
Data Manipulation
22
Native Extensions
20
YouTube
17
Debugging
17
Networking
13
Tools
12
Integrations
11
Localization
10
Sprites
10
Physics
10
Levels
10
Getting Started
9
Input Handling
9
Timing
8
State Machines
7
Camera
7
Blogs
7
Pathing
6
Lighting
6
Async
5
Particles
5
Sprite Stacking
4
Community
3
Footnotes
3
Sequences
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