Announcements

1. Forum Rules,
2. Tech Blogs

In this forum you can find all the official announcements from the community administrators, as well as the rules of the forum.

Community Chat

1. Challenges,
2. Suggestion Box,
3. GMCJam

The Community forum is for discussions relevant to the GameMaker Community only. This includes news, publications and media as well as anything dealing with the GMC in general. Technical or programming questions should not be posted here.

Technical Support - GameMaker: Studio

1. GameMaker:Studio Development,
2. Android,
3. iOS,
4. HTML5,
5. Mac,
6. Windows,
7. Windows Phone,
8. Windows 8 (JS & Native),
9. Ubuntu (Linux),
10. Tizen (JS &Native)

This forum is for discussing technical problems related to GM:Studio and its different target modules.

Technical Support - Legacy GameMaker

1. GameMaker 8.1 Development

This forum is for discussing technical issues regarding legacy versions of GameMaker for Windows and Mac.

Programming Q&A

1. Advanced GML Discussion,
2. Shaders,
3. 3D Game Techniques

This forum is for posting programming questions, whether just asking for help or getting advice, when using GML or the Drag'n'Drop actions. More experienced users will help you.

Marketplace

1. Marketplace Q&A

This forum is for discussing the GameMaker: Marketplace and for posting links to your uploaded assets.

Teachers Area

This forum is for people to discuss and promote course material, books, and any other learning resource, except GML tutorials, which should go in the Resources forum

Resources

1. Tutorials and Examples,
2. Extending GameMaker

This forum is for requesting graphics or sound resources, as well as posting your extensions and tutorials. Please do NOT post programming or general questions here, but rather use the Q&A forum.

Completed Projects

1. Windows Creations,
2. Mac Creations,
3. Linux Creations,
4. HTML5 Creations,
5. Android Apps,
6. iOS Apps,
7. Windows Phone

Announce and discuss finished GameMaker creations in these forums.

Beta Projects

Here you can post your games for Beta testing. This is a moderated forum, and all topics MUST follow the forum rules.

Alpha Projects

Discuss games that are incomplete and still under major development. Topics posted here MUST INCLUDE A PLAYABLE DEMO

Game Design and Distribution

Talk about design or distribution issues that you have with your game.

Portfolios

Post your music, art, web design or programming portfolio here.

Job Offers

If you are looking to hire someone for a position or for freelance work, then post here, but please follow the strict forum rules when posting.

Off Topic

1. Games Discussion Forum,
2. Forum Games,
3. Web Site Announcements

This forum is for introductions and open, friendly discussion of anything not related to GameMaker, and that is not against the forum rules.