How to prepare your GameMaker games for translation
If you’re looking to increase the audience for your games, one way to be more inclusive and get more eyes on your content is to translate your game into other languages.
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CI GameDev 16px Font
A monospaced, 5px by 16px pixel font for 100% free commercial use in your games.
Card Games Graphics Pack
High resolution cards, chips and dice for use in your games – a total of 90 sprites are included in this pack.
Our 2025 plans – giving back to the community
Happy New Year everyone from Daniel and Allison here at Chequered Ink! We’re coming up to our tenth anniversary, and to celebrate we’ve got some radical plans to give back to the community.
Merry Christmas from Chequered Ink
We just want to wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday season and a pleasant end to 2024! What a year it’s been. Here’s a look back at what we’ve done over the last 12 months here at Chequered Ink.
Monoquous 2
Monoquous 2 is a challenging puzzle platformer in which you can phase through walls to invert the world around you, taking the direction of gravity with it – up becomes down, black becomes white, and deadly obstacles lose and gain their threat along the way.
How to use our fonts in GameMaker
Ever wondered how you can use a custom font in GameMaker? Here’s a quick guide on how to load one of our fonts in GameMaker to use in your own projects.
All Fonts Pack
Get over 1200 font styles for full commercial use in the Chequered Ink All Fonts Pack – massive savings vs. licensing each of our fonts individually.
Gunfire of the Manatees
A pirate ship has harpooned their latest catch: two massive manatees by the name of Siegfried and Montague. Problem is… they’re heavily armed.
All Games Bundle Launches on Itch
We just redesigned our itch page and to celebrate we created a bundle with ALL of our paid games for 80% off – that’s under ten dollars for all 15 of these games… and one of them is actually a pack of 71 games itself?? So you actually get like 85 games in total! WHAT.
New Longer Free Demo for Love Witch Heroines
We’ve updated the free demo for Love Witch Heroines so that you can now play 25 levels of story mode instead of just 5!
Love Witch Heroines
The Guardian Witches who protect the elemental spell stones have all been sealed away by the darkness. Rescue them from their paintings, befriend them and unlock cute new outfits for each one!
FKR18
You may know the drill already. Swing around that S-trojan, smack into antiviruses, cause bursts of colour.
Prisnhax
You are a black hat hacker, and you just discovered your newest venture: a newly-upgraded prison complex with all-digital security. Each cell is protected through a light lock that can be picked remotely through refraction and colour filtering.
Keylocker
Keylocker: Turn-based Cyberpunk Action, developed by Moonana Games and published by Serenity Forge, has just released on Nintendo Switch. And guess what? Chequered Ink ported it!
Cryptrio
A monstrous match three arcade game with a twist! Connect the shapes in the right places to clear monsters from the dungeon and beat the bosses, all in the name of chasing the highest possible score.
Cryptrio – Monstrous Match 3 Arcade Game – Launches on March 8th!
Cryptrio is launching on March 8th exclusively on itch! Our new game is a match three arcade game like no other. Combine groups of monsters to defeat them and survive as long as you can… but watch out, their weird and wobbly variety of shapes make that much harder than it sounds.
Vac-a-Doodle-Doo
Take your cleaning up to the literal next level with Vac-a-Doodle-Doo, the tower-ascending, brain-bending cleaner that runs out of charge quicker than those batteries I bought from that pound shop down the road.
GameDevDan vs Life Gets Free Update with 21 New Games
GameDevDan vs Life is getting a massive, free update 6 years after its initial launch!
FKR17
FKR was released when I was 16 years old. FKR17, the 17th annual FKR, is released when I’m 32 years old.
