End-of-life: GameMaker Server is at its end of life, and is no longer actively developed. The server will remain online at least until the end of 2023. Please see this page for more information.
GameMaker Server is a GameMaker extension which allows you to add online INIs, online achievements, online highscores or online multiplayer to your game, without having to host your own server.
There are 4,112 developers using GameMaker Server, and 989,929 accounts have been registered. GameMaker Server hosts 4,864 games, and 16,043,014 logins have been made on 2,047,938 different usernames.
To use GameMaker Server, you'll need GameMaker. GameMaker can be downloaded on the YoYoGames website. The following GameMaker versions are supported:
The YYC still contains a lot of bugs, which means GameMaker Server will not always work on the YYC exports. The HTML5/JavaScript exports are currently not supported. GameMaker Server does not work on GameMaker for Mac.
To use GameMaker Server, you'll need a GameMaker Server account, and you'll need to register as a developer. Every game has to be registered as well, before any of the online functions can be used.