The authors of GameMaker have announced plans to integrate a neural network into the engine. It will help developers with writing code, creating placeholders, restoring images, and other tasks.

YoYo Games has decided to change the payment options of the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine. They became easier to understand.

The GameMaker Studio game engine can now again be used for free for longer than 30 days. YoYo Games studio has provided free access to the engine, but with the condition that it can be done only for familiarization.

Rumors have been confirmed that it was Opera that acquired the GameMaker company YoYo Games from Playtech for $ 10 million. At the same time, the browser developers launched a gaming division — Opera Gaming.

Playtech sold the studio to YoYo Games five years after the purchase. The amount of the transaction was only $ 10 million, and Opera presumably became the new owner of the authors of the GameMaker game engine.The completion of the deal was first reported by Reuters last week.

The creator of the GameMaker Studio game engine franchise, YoYo Games, has opened its own publishing division. They intend to release games by independent developers created with the help of GameMaker Studio products.

It will soon be possible to make games for the Nintendo Switch on the GameMaker Studio 2 engine. The developer of the engine, YoYo Games, has signed an agreement with the Nintendo Corporation.

YoYo Games has introduced GameMaker Studio 2 Creator Edition – access to the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine and resource store for $39 per year.

The developer of GameMaker Studio 2, YoYo Games, has agreed with Microsoft to provide users of the engine with access to the Xbox Creators Program.

A version of the GameMaker Studio 2 game engine for Apple devices has been released.

Version 2.0.7 of the GameMaker Studio game editor has been released, according to the application developer YoYo Games.

YoYo Games has published the second version of the GameMaker Studio 2D game development toolkit.

Recently, PlayTech acquired the authors of the GameMaker game engine for $ 16 million. Yesterday, our colleagues from Develop in connection with this transaction were interviewed by the former CEO of YoYo Games, Sandy Duncan. About the main points of the conversation – in our material.

The British company Playtech has acquired for $ 16.4 million the Scottish studio YoYo Games, which develops and supports the multi-platform game engine GameMaker.

YoYo Games has announced that the new version of its GameMaker: Studio toolkit will allow developers to “export” their games (both new and existing) to the Windows Phone 8 mobile OS.