After a request from a member of the community here we’ve added outline variants for all 236 designs in our inventory icons graphics pack. This brings the total number of sprites in the pack up to a whopping 472!
Oink Jam is a beginner-friendly game jam where you can win over $1500 worth of prizes.
The 58th GMC Jam will be taking place from February 18th to February 23rd, and we’re offering some great prizes!
Our 10,000 Game Asset Pack, which we released in December, is now also available to buy on GameDev Market.
We’ve made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects.
High resolution sprites for use in your music games and other projects – there are a total of 43 sprites in this pack.
Status Effects are the spice that stops RPGs turning into a boring slugfest. Get inspired with our list of status effects and their synonyms.
We’ve been working on a Pixel Art Platformer Kit as a counterpart to our existing 2D Platformer Pack which uses HD assets.
This idea is a party game for 2-4 players, gathered around one screen, based on drawing and guessing.
We’ve updated our Card Game Graphics Pack with 95 new sprites, more than doubling the original size of the pack!
Retro pixel art RPG Characters for use in your games and other projects. There are a total of 39 characters in the pack, with 12 frames of animation and 1 sprite sheet each for a total of 507 assets.
Happy New Year everyone! We hope you had an excellent holiday season and a good start to 2026. These are challenging times and we want to enter the year with a sense of hope, and a real drive to offer as much as we can to the community.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Festive Season from both of us here at Chequered Ink.
Our Winter Sale has now extended to our games on Steam and Nintendo Switch, where you can get up to 90% off.
Continuing our series of winter sales, you can now get 50% off a selection of our games on itch.io in the Winter Sale.
It’s time for a new game idea! Today we’re looking at a puzzle game I came up with called Town Shift.
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?
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.
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!
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.
Outline variants added to our inventory icons pack
January 24, 2026
We’re Sponsoring Oink Jam and it Starts Today!
January 23, 2026
January 22, 2026
10,000 Game Asset Pack now available on GameDev Market
January 22, 2026
New Pixel Art Platformer Tile Sets
January 13, 2026
Fix Input Lag on Android in GameMaker HTML5 Games
December 11, 2025
Share to Social Networks from GameMaker Games
December 10, 2025
2.5D in GameMaker using Sprite-Stacking
December 5, 2025
Useful Resources For Your GameMaker Games
November 5, 2025
Get The Hex String of a Color in GameMaker
October 10, 2025