Sony Computer Entertainment has joined with YoYo Games to provide licensed PlayStation developers native PS3, PS4 and PS Vita support for the Dundee-based company’s GameMaker: Studio development platform free-of-charge. The partnership was announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
“We are pleased to be working with YoYo Games to deliver GameMaker: Studio for our PlayStation platforms,” said SCE Technology Platform SVP Teiji Yutaka. “PlayStation users will soon be allowed to enjoy a wide variety of creative games including unique indie game titles from GameMaker’s growing global community of developers, which includes some of the most acclaimed independent talent in the world including indie development community.”
PlayStation integration with the popular game development software adds GameMaker: Studio to the list of independent platforms supported by Sony, which includes MonoGame for PS4 and Unity for PS3 and PS Vita. SCE’s own Authoring Tools Framework, used to develop titles such as The Last of Us and Beyond: Two Souls, has also been released in a free-of-charge, open-source version via GitHub.
“Sony is an immense supporter of the indie movement within the game industry and is constantly collecting feedback on how to make things easier for developers,” said SCE president and CEO Andrew House in a statement. “(It’s) abundantly clear within the development community that these broad sets of tools and specific middleware solutions are in high demand.”
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