Game Maker has been written to make it easier for people to design and make their own computer games. Though you may not be able to make games like Quake (they take teams of programmers years to make), you can still make games that are lots of fun to play. Plenty of people love to play Tetris, Pacman and other simple platform, puzzle or shooting games. You can make simple games such as these with Game maker, or you can even make quite elaborate strategy games, first-person shooters, third-person shooters, massively multiplayer online games and simulations.

You don't have to write programming code to be able to make games with Game Maker, though it does have a built in programming language to give you full control of your game if you want.

Game Maker comes in two versions: Lite and Pro. Lite is free of charge, but for a small amount of money you can buy the Pro version which has lots more features. It can be downloaded from the official Yoyo Games website. Game Maker runs under Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP or Vista. You can also download resource packs that contain extra sprites, sounds and examples from the official Game Maker site.