Winter Sales begin with All Fonts Pack
We’re beginning a whole season of winter sales with 90% off our All Fonts Pack!
News
RPG Character Creator in Development
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.
Sprite To Life Available Again Now
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.
GMC Jam 57 Voting Open Now
Voting in the GMC Jam 57 is now open. Reviewers have 20 days up until November 23rd to play the 16 entries in the jam and vote for their favourites.
GMC Jam 57 Starts Now
The 57th GMC Jam, where GameMaker users will compete to make the best game in 5 days, has now begun!
GMC Jam 57 Starts in 2 Days
GMC Jam 57 starts this Wednesday at midday! Make the best GameMaker game you can in 5 days and you could win a copy of our All Fonts Pack.
New Tile Sets for 2D Platformer Games
Today we’re adding even more new tile sets to our 2D Platformer Kit! Eventually the whole thing will be available to the public, but as we complete each biome we’re releasing the tiles exclusively for members of our Patreon.
Nildigo Hits 1,000 Wishlists on Steam
Nildigo, our mine-sweeping roguelite puzzle game, has just reached 1,000 wishlists on Steam!
GameMaker Match 3 Template Now 100% Free
Our Anime Girls Match 3 Template for GameMaker is now 100% free for commercial use. The project, which contains the source code of our game Love Witch Heroines, has all the code you need to make a match 3 puzzle game with soft dating mechanics.
Play Nildigo During Steam Next Fest
Our upcoming puzzle game Nildigo features in the October 2025 Steam Next Fest, with a free demo you can download and play ahead of release.
We talked fonts at AniMangaPop!
On Saturday, I headed to AniMangaPop in Bristol to meet artists and talk to them about our All Fonts Pack. Funnily enough, the event itself uses one of our fonts, Saveloy, for its logo!
Keylocker Heart Strings Update Out Now On Nintendo Switch
The latest patch of Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk Action has just released on Nintendo Switch, bringing new languages, weapons, romance and jam sessions to the game.
Announcing My Account for Chequered Ink
Today we’re announcing My Account for Chequered Ink, a new way to stay in touch with us and the whole game dev community!
GMC Jam 57 Starts Soon!
Make the best GameMaker game in 5 days and win a copy of our All Fonts Pack!
GameMaker Awards 2025 announced by YoYo Games
YoYo Games, the creators of GameMaker, have announced the opening of nominations for the 2025 edition of the GameMaker awards.
28 New Autumnal Icons
Ready for Autumn and Halloween, we’ve added a handful of new sprites to our inventory icons pack including new types of mushrooms, new leaf colours, acorns, berries, chestnuts and pumpkins.
Welcoming earthize to the family
We’re bringing Daniel’s project earthize into the Chequered Ink family. Here’s the announcement from earthize.
4 Fonts Added to our All Fonts Pack! 🆕
Today we’ve added our 4 latest fonts to the All Fonts Pack, taking the total number of font files in the pack to 1,234!
Nildigo Selected For Yogscast Tiny Teams
Nildigo has been selected for this year’s Yogscast Tiny Teams event!
Greatest Hits Tapes Have Started Shipping
We’ve received our promotional copies of our Greatest Hits Tape from Limited Run!
Three New Fonts Added To Our All Fonts Pack
We’ve added 3 new fonts to our All Fonts Pack, for both new and existing customers!
10 Years of Chequered Ink
Chequered Ink is 10 years old today! We founded the company on June 18th, 2015 and since then we’ve made hundreds of games, thousands of fonts, game assets, logos, websites, music, board games, card games and more.
