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GameMaker 25th Anniversary

Join us in celebrating twenty five years of GameMaker with GameMaker 25th Anniversary! A fun look at the process behind creating the world's greatest 2D Game Engine! Manage your development house, keep your employees happy, and squash bugs as they come up!

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November 15, 2024
1 year and 260 days ago
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Mostly Positive51 reviews70.6%

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Join us in celebrating twenty five years of GameMaker with GameMaker 25th Anniversary!

Manage your development house, keep your employees happy and squash bugs as they come up in this minigame filled, top down management and strategy game! Starting from a single programmer, you'll select features to develop for your game engine, buy new furniture for the office to improve the performance of your team, hire new developers, and collect posters for the office!

  • Select upgrades for your office to improve worker movement speed, productivity and more.

  • Pick cool features to add to your engine from a list  and develop them!

  • Keep your workers happy by clicking thought bubbles to send them through the office.

  • Repair broken objects by playing over a dozen minigames.

  • Click-and-squash bugs as they come up.

  • Release new engine features, gain popularity and collect posters based on the history of GameMaker!