Indie game developer Michael Hayes will host a panel at this Saturday's RetroGameCon to explain the basics of 2D game design to attendees. From 1:15 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. in RetroGameCon's Hyrule Room ...

To ensure something like DnD is simultaneously simple and powerful, YoYo developed the GameMaker Language (GML) to keep full control over how the each drag-and-drop action interfaces with the code.

GameMaker has gone by a number of names over the years, including Animo and GameMaker Studio. There was even a time before 2011, when it was known by the same name that it is now.

GameMaker, the cross-platform development software from YoYo Games, will be compatibale with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, the company announced today.

GameMaker: Studio allows developers to create games in a single code base and then export and run them natively on multiple formats including HTML5, Facebook, Android, iOS, Symbian, Windows and OSX.