GameMaker Server

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 4,111 developers using GameMaker Server, and 989,912 accounts have been registered. GameMaker Server hosts 4,767 games, and 14,902,057 logins have been made on 2,047,897 different usernames.

Make games

To use GameMaker Server, you'll need GameMaker. GameMaker can be downloaded on the YoYoGames website. The following GameMaker versions are supported:

  • GameMaker: Studio
    • Windows
    • Mac OS X
    • iOS
    • Android
    • Windows 8 (Native)
    • Windows Phone 8
    • Ubuntu (Linux)
    • Tizen (Native)
  • GameMaker 8.1
  • GameMaker 8.0

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.

Download GameMaker Server