GameMaker
Creating games is easy with GameMaker! Built with game developers of all skill levels in mind, GameMaker provides a complete set of tools to bring your ideas to life. It’s the fastest way to design, create, and export games. GameMaker empowers you to make your game, your way - regardless of your background or skill level. All you need is an idea! Join the ranks of brilliant games made with GameMaker, like Undertale and Hyper Light Drifter, and start building your own today.
How We Started
Originally created in 1999 by Professor Mark Overmars under the name "Animo," GameMaker was designed to make game development accessible to all. Its intuitive drag-and-drop interface and powerful scripting capabilities quickly gained traction among both beginners and professional developers. Over the years, it has grown into a robust and versatile platform, lowering the barriers to game creation without compromising on depth or functionality.
Where We Are Now
Now under Opera’s umbrella, GameMaker has become one of the most widely used 2D game development tools, supporting creators across PC, mobile, and consoles. With an ever-expanding suite of features, it enables indie developers and established studios alike to bring their ideas to life with speed and efficiency. Today, GameMaker continues to shape the future of 2D gaming, empowering millions of developers worldwide.
What’s it like to work at Opera GameMaker?
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Working at Opera GameMaker means true creative freedom. As Lead Artist, I’ve spent three years crafting boundary-pushing visuals in an environment where innovation thrives. Opera encourages learning, experimentation, and technical growth, empowering us - and indie developers - to create without limitations, profit-sharing constraints, or creative compromise.
Alan Morris
Lead Artist
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Opera is transparent about its objectives and expectations, having an environment that values open discussions and sharing of ideas. What sets our company apart in the gaming industry is the combination of GameMaker and a browser that works seamlessly across devices. Opera has a forward-looking approach, we are involved in pioneering technologies like web GPU to innovate the world of browsers.
Russell Kay
Senior Product Director
About Opera
Opera is a leading global internet brand with a large and engaged user base of approximately 300 million average monthly active users. Building on 30 years of innovation, starting with our browser products, we are leveraging our brand as well as our massive and engaged user base in order to expand our offerings and our business. Today, we offer users around the globe a range of products and services that include a variety of PC and mobile browsers, our Opera Gaming portals and development tools, our Opera News content recommendation products, our audience extension product (namely the Opera Ads platform) and a number of AI and Web3 products and services. This comprehensive suite of products is designed to meet the diverse needs and preferences of Opera's growing user base.
Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Opera has a global presence with major hubs in Poland, China, Spain, Scotland, and Sweden, coupled with operations spanning numerous other countries. As a publicly traded company, Opera is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol "OPRA".
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