YoYo Games is the company that currently distributes Game Maker. It offers a YouTube-style system of allowing members to upload their games, and others to play them.
Competitions
Main article: YoYo Games Competitions
Yoyo Games hosts a series of Game Maker games competitions from its website. Each competition has its own unique theme around which all entries must be based. The competition awards prizes usually consisting of some monetary value to its first, second, and third place winners as well as providing a list of "honorable mention" entries to the public after the judging process is completed.
Instant Play
YoYo Games currently has a system that allows people to play Game Maker games with a simple buffer and play. For the Instant Play to play the game, the user is required to download and install a plugin in their browser. Games made in Game Maker versions 6.0, 6.1 and 7.0 qualify for this. The game is downloaded with a smaller size to the user's computer. The instant play then will run the game file with the engine and play it in a separate window. Can be useful because the games can be accesed again online and the game's saved information remains in the folder until a new version is downloaded to overwrite it. If there is no new version, it does not need to be re-downloaded. However, a downfall to this extension is that the games that are downloaded will stay in the YoYoGames folder and take up a lot of space until the user deletes them manually.
