Time for Chaotic Fun with GMC Jam 58
Make the best GameMaker game you can in five days and you could win our Asset Packs.
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Oink Jam Winners Revealed
The Winners of the first Oink Jam, sponsored by Chequered Ink, have been revealed from among the total of 78 entries.
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500 Assets Added to Pack in February Update
This February, we’re adding over 500 new assets to the pack free for existing customers and readily available for those of you looking to get in on this month’s 50% off sale!
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Outline variants added to our inventory icons pack
After a request from a member of the community here we’ve added outline variants for all 236 designs in our inventory icons graphics pack. This brings the total number of sprites in the pack up to a whopping 472!
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We’re Sponsoring Oink Jam and it Starts Today!
Oink Jam is a beginner-friendly game jam where you can win over $1500 worth of prizes.
GMC Jam 58 Coming Soon
The 58th GMC Jam will be taking place from February 18th to February 23rd, and we’re offering some great prizes!
10,000 Game Asset Pack now available on GameDev Market
Our 10,000 Game Asset Pack, which we released in December, is now also available to buy on GameDev Market.
Backgroundese Fonts for Nonsense Text in Games
We’ve made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects.
Music Game Sprites
High resolution sprites for use in your music games and other projects – there are a total of 43 sprites in this pack.
Status Effects & Their Synonyms
Status Effects are the spice that stops RPGs turning into a boring slugfest. Get inspired with our list of status effects and their synonyms.
New Pixel Art Platformer Tile Sets
We’ve been working on a Pixel Art Platformer Kit as a counterpart to our existing 2D Platformer Pack which uses HD assets.
Game Ideas: Scribble Quiz
This idea is a party game for 2-4 players, gathered around one screen, based on drawing and guessing.
Card Games Graphics Pack Updated
We’ve updated our Card Game Graphics Pack with 95 new sprites, more than doubling the original size of the pack!
RPG Character Sprites
Retro pixel art RPG Characters for use in your games and other projects. There are a total of 39 characters in the pack, with 12 frames of animation and 1 sprite sheet each for a total of 507 assets.
Our Plans For 2026
Happy New Year everyone! We hope you had an excellent holiday season and a good start to 2026. These are challenging times and we want to enter the year with a sense of hope, and a real drive to offer as much as we can to the community.
Merry Christmas from Chequered Ink
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Festive Season from both of us here at Chequered Ink.
Winter Sales Now On Steam, Nintendo Switch
Our Winter Sale has now extended to our games on Steam and Nintendo Switch, where you can get up to 90% off.
50% Off Our Games in the Itch Winter Sale
Continuing our series of winter sales, you can now get 50% off a selection of our games on itch.io in the Winter Sale.
Puzzle Game Idea: Town Shift
It’s time for a new game idea! Today we’re looking at a puzzle game I came up with called Town Shift.
Do we need a new word for Indier-than-Indie?
Why did the term indie games come into use in the first place, and how do we cope with the huge shift in its meaning?
Everything we did in 2025
Back in January we set out our plans to make lots of new assets & tutorials, create more fonts and release at least two new games. Find out how we met those goals and more in a journey through everything we did in 2025.
Fix Input Lag on Android in GameMaker HTML5 Games
The other day we released updates for several of our web games fixing a pretty critical bug on Android. Here’s how we fixed it, with a code snippet helpfully provided by SnoutUp Games!
Share to Social Networks from GameMaker Games
If your game has a social aspect, such as high scores or challenges, you may want your players to be able to share their progress on social media. We’ve come up with a convenient script for the job called gm_share.
32 New Winter Icons
We’ve added 32 new winter icons to our Inventory Icons Pack, partly as a big thank you for the positive response to our 10,000 Game Assets pack since last week!
Winter Sales: One Week Left For All Fonts Pack Discount
There’s one week left to get our All Fonts Pack at a 90% discount in our Winter Sale. The pack contains over 1200 commercial use fonts and is usually priced at $190. You can get it for just $19 until December 15th.
