{"id":14615,"date":"2018-03-09T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315370"},"modified":"2018-03-09T00:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:36:00","slug":"nintendo-inks-deal-with-yoyo-to-bring-gamemaker-studio-2-games-to-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/nintendo-inks-deal-with-yoyo-to-bring-gamemaker-studio-2-games-to-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo inks deal with YoYo to bring GameMaker Studio 2 games to Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the folks at YoYo Games <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/gamemaker-studio-2-to-launch-on-switch\/\">announced<\/a> that they&#8217;ve signed a deal with Nintendo aimed at making it easier for devs to export games made with YoYo&#8217;s GameMaker Studio 2 toolset directly to the Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Details on how, exactly, this will work are yet unclear, but the deal is almost certainly good news for GameMaker game devs\u00a0who are eager to get a piece of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/312528\/Switch_becomes_fastestselling_home_console_of_all_time_in_the_US.php\">expanding<\/a>\u00a0(and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/312764\/Amid_a_rising_tide_of_games_devs_reflect_on_state_of_the_Switch_market.php\">increasingly crowded<\/a>) Switch marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>The news was announced today shortly after\u00a0Nintendo confirmed (in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NsFna-Z1MjU\">Nintendo Direct video<\/a>)\u00a0that there will be a\u00a0Switch version of Toby Fox&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Undertale<\/em>, the award-winning 2015 RPG built with\u00a0GameMaker.\u00a0Afterwards, YoYo sent out a press release confirming its partnership with Nintendo and laying plans to release a &#8220;Nintendo Switch edition&#8221; of GameMaker Studio 2 this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re working hard to ensure the Nintendo Switch version of GameMaker Studio 2 retains the already excellent functionality of the engine,&#8221; stated YoYo\u00a0general manager James Cox.\u00a0&#8220;We are committed to supporting developers and studios who are keen to make the jump to Nintendo\u2019s record-breaking console.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, this week\u00a0YoYo\u00a0marks the one-year anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/293388\/YoYo_Games_officially_launches_GameMaker_Studio_2.php\">launching GameMaker Studio 2<\/a>\u00a0last March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the folks at YoYo Games announced that they&#8217;ve signed a deal with Nintendo aimed at making it easier for devs to export games made with YoYo&#8217;s GameMaker Studio 2 toolset directly to the Switch. Details on how, exactly, this will work are yet unclear, but the deal is almost certainly good news for GameMaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}