15th, April 2021, Dundee: YoYo Games today announced that GameMaker Studio 2, the leading 2D game development engine, will be fully localised into Russian, Chinese and Brazillian Portuguese.
As part of version 2.3.2 which has just been released, the application IDE and manual for GameMaker Studio 2 have been localised into three new languages to further broaden platform accessibility. In addition, YoYo Games will also be rolling out a range of localised content, documentation and tutorials, helping non-English speaking developers to quickly learn how to use GameMaker to create beautiful games.
The localisation update follows the recent announcement of Next-Gen console support for GameMaker, which will launch in March 2021. This will enable GameMaker users to create games and export them directly to the very latest consoles, desktop platforms and mobile operating systems.
“The inclusion of Russian, Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese languages enables us to finally make both our software and supporting materials available to a vast new audience of hobbyists and developers,” said Stuart Poole, General Manager, YoYo Games. “It’s always been our aim to try and make game development as accessible as possible to everyone. This is why with this latest localisation update, we’ve actually been able to go one step further and will developing a raft of localised tutorials, which is just part of the exciting expansion that comes as a result of being part of Opera.”
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About YoYo Games
YoYo Games is the home of GameMaker, the fastest and friendliest cross-platform game development technology out there. GameMaker Studio 2 has been completely redeveloped with usability and efficiency at its core, allowing developers to create games within a single code base and then publish them to run natively across multiple platforms including Android, iOS, HTML5, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Windows Desktop, OS X, Ubuntu, Windows UWP.
In January 2021, YoYo Games was acquired by Opera which formed a new division, Opera Gaming to expand its capabilities and monetization opportunities in the gaming space. The GameMaker Studio family of products has been downloaded more than 10 million times since 2012. YoYo Games is based in Dundee, Scotland.
About Opera and Opera GX
Opera is a global web innovator. Opera’s browsers, news products and fintech solutions are the trusted choice of more than 380 million people worldwide. Opera’s PC browser has surpassed 80 M MAUs. Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway and listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange (OPRA). https://opera.com
In 2019 Opera launched Opera GX, a browser built for gamers with features that include countless customization options, sound effects, background music, a gaming-inspired design, as well as CPU, RAM and Network Bandwidth limiters that make the browser less resource-hungry and leave more of the computer’s resources for gaming. Opera GX has seen tremendous growth over the past year with a user base of more than 8 million highly engaged monthly active gamers. Opera GX’s user base grew 350% between 2019 and December 2020 and it continues to grow at a fast pace. Opera GX continues to receive high ratings (4.84 out of 5.0). It also recently launched Discord server which quickly became number one in the Science & Tech community with more than 240K members.