Game Maker is a free program which can be used to create 2D computer games, and I highly recommend it to people who would like to start creating simple computer games but have little or no programming experience.

Do you want to develop computer games without spending countless hours learning how to become a programmer? Then you've come to the right place. Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code. Making games with Game Maker is a lot of fun.

Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time. You can make games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects, and even 3d games! And when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. What is best, is the fact that Game Maker can be used free of charge.

You can do anything you want with the games you produce, you can even sell them! Game Maker comes preloaded with a collection of freeware images and sounds to get you started.

Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games without the need to write a single line of code. Using easy-to-learn, drag-and-drop actions, you can make professional-looking games in no time. Games can have backgrounds, animated graphics, music, and sound effects, and once you get more experienced there's a built-in programming language that gives you full flexibility. What's best, Game Maker can be used completely free of charge, and you can use the games you produce any way you like. You even can sell them.

What's New :
1. Cut/Copy of a fully transparent image now keeps it transparent rather than making it black.
2. Changed the icon for the eraser in the image editor to something more meaningful.
3. The color picker now also changes the transparency value.
4. When drawing a filled rectangle (or disk, ) without a boundary, the left color is now used.
5. When filling you can now indicate whether only the color value should match or also the transparency. Filling transparent areas now works as expected.
6. The file selector now works correctly when typing in a file name.
7. The sprite file selector can now open multiple files at once.
8. When adding sprites in the sprite editor they are now added at the end.
9. The Crop transform now uses Ctrl+Alt+O as shortcut.
10. Creating too large images or sprites now gives a proper error message.
11. Added multiple undo and redo in the sprite editor.
12. Sharpen is now disabled in the image editor when there is no image.
13. Antialiased shapes now work fine with color mode set to Replace.
14. Added keyboard shortcuts for zooming actions and for all drawing actions
15. You can now Delete a selection or Cut it to the clipboard
16. It is possible to extend a selection with the key and remove parts with the key.
17. Right mouse now copies a selection.
18. Selection indication is now in a more common way (no longer dark and light).
19. There are now magic wand and paint selection tools.
20. Some errors in selection were solved.
21. Text is now indicated with a box rather than with dark-light.
22. Zoom in now only allows multiples of 100%.
23. Removed a visual glitch at the boundary of images when zooming out.
24. No warning is given when moving to the next subimage of a sprite when a change was made.
25. You can now set the transparency of the whole image
26. Added a preview image to the image editor
27. Selecting a color while painting now no longer changes the interface
28. Changed the keyboard shortcuts for the zoom functions to the more common ones.
29. Added inside glow effect.
30. Used term Opacity rather than transparency.
31. You can now set the alpha (opacity) values from an image (using the intensity).
32. Added the possibility for pasting from a file.
33. The color mode is now used when moving selections or pasting images.
34. With shift key you can now make hor/vert lines for the paint, eraser, and pencil tools
35. For Crop you can now again specify the size of the border
36. Added a Change Color drawing tool.
37. You can now change the size and color of the grid and whether to snap to it.

Game Maker comes in two editions, the Lite Edition and the Pro Edition

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this game utility software.