As we reach the 25-year mark, GameMaker is looking forward to continuing to evolve with the needs of its community. New tools, features, and updates are on the horizon that promise to make the engine more powerful and accessible than ever before.
At the top of the list is the upcoming GMRT, which is currently in open beta and is rapidly evolving with frequent releases. Support for WASM, Linux, and macOS has been added, and with an experimental release of upcoming Javascript language support, these are exciting times.
Recent releases of GameMaker have introduced more features, including a new prefab library, an updated code editor, and plugins (custom plugins coming in 2025). New UI layers are coming soon, and in 2025 a new LTS version will include everything from the 2024 monthly releases, and the developers of the builder are planning some pretty big changes to how they handle releases in 2025… details coming soon!