After YoYo Games announced a new version of GameMaker: Studio for game developers, this simple game development tool that was originally released in 1999 has taken off once more. GameMaker: Studio integrates the drag-and-drop interface, provides GameMaker developers with brand-new functionality and performance, and enables developers to make multiple editions of a game for popular platforms at once, without multiplying the cost of game development.

GameMaker Studio (GMS for short, formerly called: Game Maker, Animo) is a very powerful and popular cross-platform, multi-genre game development engine (GDE)/game creation system (GCS) for both entry-level novices/amateurs and seasoned game development professionals. It was written in Delphi by Mark Overmars from Netherlands and first published in 1999.