r/gamemaker is a subreddit with 112k members. The community frequently discusses struggling, gamemaker, help, game, and coding, and they frequently recommend/review art software, and the most common flair used is help!, game, discussion, resource, and resolved.
This subreddit is dedicated to providing programmer support for the game development platform, GameMaker Studio. GameMaker Studio is designed to make developing games fun and easy. Coders can take advantage of its built in scripting language, "GML" to design and create fully-featured, professional grade games. This subreddit is not designed for promoting your content and is instead focused on helping people make games, not promote them.
Popular Topics in r/gamemaker
#1
Struggling
77 posts
#2
Gamemaker
72 posts
#3
Help
66 posts
#4
Game
44 posts
#5
Coding
39 posts
#6
Looking For A
27 posts
#7
Struggling With
26 posts
#8
Looking For
21 posts
#9
Learning
17 posts
#10
Tutorial
16 posts
Products Discussed in r/gamemaker
Art Software
10 reviews
#1
Aseprite
4.3★ from 4 reviews
#2
GIMP
3.5★ from 2 reviews
#3
Piskel
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/gamemaker
#1
Help!
: "Tileset confusion"
91 posts
#2
Game
: "A Game Maker game is currently featured on Reddit!"
19 posts
#3
Discussion
: "Is anyone excited about the new 3D in GameMaker?"
18 posts
#4
Resource
: "Extended Images - IDE Extensions for Sprite Editor"
10 posts
#5
Resolved
: "Getting Distracted by New Game Ideas"
5 posts
#6
Example
: "trying again to do 3D in gamemaker, here's my progress in a few days~"
4 posts
#7
Quick Questions
: "Quick Questions"
4 posts
#8
Community
: "Any recommendations to learn gamemaker"
3 posts
#9
WorkInProgress
: "Work In Progress Weekly"
3 posts
#10
Tutorial
: "Procedural Level Generation in GameMaker | GMRoomLoader Tutorial"
2 posts
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Yearly
+13k members(13.3%)
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Last updated: August 13, 2026