Winter Sales Now On Steam, Nintendo Switch
Our Winter Sale has now extended to our games on Steam and Nintendo Switch, where you can get up to 90% off.
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50% Off Our Games in the Itch Winter Sale
Continuing our series of winter sales, you can now get 50% off a selection of our games on itch.io in the Winter Sale.
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Puzzle Game Idea: Town Shift
It’s time for a new game idea! Today we’re looking at a puzzle game I came up with called Town Shift.
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Do we need a new word for Indier-than-Indie?
Why did the term indie games come into use in the first place, and how do we cope with the huge shift in its meaning?
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Everything we did in 2025
Back in January we set out our plans to make lots of new assets & tutorials, create more fonts and release at least two new games. Find out how we met those goals and more in a journey through everything we did in 2025.
Fix Input Lag on Android in GameMaker HTML5 Games
The other day we released updates for several of our web games fixing a pretty critical bug on Android. Here’s how we fixed it, with a code snippet helpfully provided by SnoutUp Games!
Share to Social Networks from GameMaker Games
If your game has a social aspect, such as high scores or challenges, you may want your players to be able to share their progress on social media. We’ve come up with a convenient script for the job called gm_share.
32 New Winter Icons
We’ve added 32 new winter icons to our Inventory Icons Pack, partly as a big thank you for the positive response to our 10,000 Game Assets pack since last week!
Winter Sales: One Week Left For All Fonts Pack Discount
There’s one week left to get our All Fonts Pack at a 90% discount in our Winter Sale. The pack contains over 1200 commercial use fonts and is usually priced at $190. You can get it for just $19 until December 15th.
Mobile HTML5 Games Given New Lease of Life
We’ve updated four of our mobile HTML5 games to improve performance – especially on Android devices. You can play them all here!
2.5D in GameMaker using Sprite-Stacking
There’s an age-old question among GameMaker users who’ve chosen the tool for its simplicity. How do I make a 3D game in GameMaker? Then you find out you need to know quite a lot of maths and how to draw primitives and vertices and you ask yourself the next question. How do I make a sort of 3D game in GameMaker, but like, easily?
Chequered Ink launches pack of 10,000 game assets to combat the rise of generative AI
At Chequered Ink, we’re launching a pack of 10,000 game assets across a variety of genres to give budding developers an alternative to AI.
10,000 Game Assets Pack
Get all 10,000+ Chequered Ink Game Assets in a single download, for commercial use in all your projects. Includes thousands of sprites across a variety of genres as well as hundreds of sound effects.
Bristol Indie Developers’ Playtest Party Was A Roaring Success
Yesterday I took part in Bristol Indie Developers’ 2nd Anniversary Playtest Party at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. I was showing our upcoming puzzle game Nildigo, which you can wishlist now on Steam!
Board Game Pieces Graphics Pack
High resolution board game sprites for use in your games and other projects – there are a total of 200 sprites in this pack.
16px Control Prompts
Retro pixel art control prompts for use in your games and other projects. There are a total of 626 sprites in this pack.
Let Me Just Use This Takes First Place in GMC Jam 57
The results of the GMC Jam 57 are in and my entry Let Me Just Use This For A Second won first place!
16px Inventory Icons Part 2
Get over 300 pixel art inventory icons for use in your games, compatible with RPG Maker MV, GameMaker and other engines.
16px Inventory Icons
Get over 300 pixel art inventory icons for use in your games, compatible with RPG Maker MV, GameMaker and other engines.
Winter Sales begin with All Fonts Pack
We’re beginning a whole season of winter sales with 90% off our All Fonts Pack!
RPG Character Creator in Development
Exciting News! As part of our project to release lots of free game assets, we’re working on a tool to allow you to create custom characters for your RPGs.
Sprite To Life Available Again Now
We’ve decided to make our tool Sprite To Life! available again on itch. The tool, which we developed briefly in 2020, allows you to extrude fake 3D graphics from 2D sprites, and quickly test stacked sprites.
400 Sounds Pack
Quickly inject some life into your games with our handy sound effects pack, 100% free for commercial use.
2D Platformer Pack
Kick start your platformer project with our 2D Platformer Pack, containing over 900 free graphical assets for use in your games and other projects!
Useful Resources For Your GameMaker Games
Check out our list of useful resources for your GameMaker games, including tools, scripts, sprites, sounds and more.