So yesterday I found out that Game Maker, or as its now known, Game Studio is now free for the Standard version.

I haven’t felt compelled to buy into it since it went to Yoyo, but now I thought, why the hell not?

So I dug up some old projects to see if they convert well, a few code changes and functions have dissappeared through a few versions, but I was able to get 4 old projects up and running on the new Game Maker/Studio.

I have a few more to test, but among them was Shield Breaker, which I did want to complete one day, and Even vs. Odd puzzle game.

I found out that you need pro to compile to Win 8, mobile, OSX, and such, so that parts not free. But the compile product ran fine on Windows 8 so its good enough for me.

Now that I can update these things, I plan on going through some of the projects I left open source here at Gamejolt and updating them to work with the new game maker/studio, so you don’t have to! I don’t plan on reviving many of them, but I figure Conteptual RPG gets the most hits, maybe people would like a Game Studio working version.

I could also bring back the Crawl RPG maker in Game Studio, since it may be powerful enough to handle voxel drawing. I’ll have to play around with it first.