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 been working on a Pixel Art Platformer Kit as a counterpart to our existing 2D Platformer Pack which uses HD assets.
We’ve updated our Card Game Graphics Pack with 95 new sprites, more than doubling the original size of the pack!
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.
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.
We’ve added 32 new winter icons to our Inventory Icons Pack, partly as a big thank you for the positive response to our 10,000 Game Assets pack since last week!
There’s one week left to get our All Fonts Pack at a 90% discount in our Winter Sale. The pack contains over 1200 commercial use fonts and is usually priced at $190. You can get it for just $19 until December 15th.
We’ve updated four of our mobile HTML5 games to improve performance – especially on Android devices. You can play them all here!
At Chequered Ink, we’re launching a pack of 10,000 game assets across a variety of genres to give budding developers an alternative to AI.
Yesterday I took part in Bristol Indie Developers’ 2nd Anniversary Playtest Party at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. I was showing our upcoming puzzle game Nildigo, which you can wishlist now on Steam!
The results of the GMC Jam 57 are in and my entry Let Me Just Use This For A Second won first place!
We’re beginning a whole season of winter sales with 90% off our All Fonts Pack!
Exciting News! As part of our project to release lots of free game assets, we’re working on a tool to allow you to create custom characters for your RPGs.
We’ve decided to make our tool Sprite To Life! available again on itch. The tool, which we developed briefly in 2020, allows you to extrude fake 3D graphics from 2D sprites, and quickly test stacked sprites.
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