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The Skyfire Insider is the first hardcopy GM magazine (it’s one of those things that you can touch in real life!): instead of reading it at your computer, read it anywhere you want to!

I have already ordered my own copy. I wonder if they ship to Finland with FedEx or a traditional newsletter…

See here for a print copy of MarkUp from July last year

Update: The newsletter will only be delivered to the US and Australia

From a magazine to a blog. I think this is a good idea, although the technical implementation doesn’t impress me.

As you may know I am disappointed that YoYo Games have not released a patch to enable users of Game Maker 7 to protect their games from the widely-known-about decompiler. Despite this it looks like they may will endorse the obfuscator project started by GMC member Schreib.

“This project is not officially supported by neither YoYoGames or Mark Overmars - yet. As close as today YoYoJim reported to me that this sounds good, and they might give their official consent.” [sic]

Source: http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=373402

A recent look at the Prodigy GM website reveals that the website has been deleted. According to nateistoraw (Prodigy GM’s owner), awardspace which they were using to host the site, deleted the website for spamming what a shock. I can’t say I am too ‘upset’ I am sure you all know my feelings for nateistoraw and anything to do with him. Knowing Nate the site will probley be back up sometime, but I personally would like to keep it this way. Sure he provided us with a few laughs and giggles, but there was more spamming and flaming than there was fun.

EDIT: Seems that the site is already in the process of rebuilding itself.

EDIT2: The site has been completely deleted again.

EDIT3: An ‘official announcement’. (t)

Yet another high quality issue of Russell’s Quarterly. This time with 81 (!) pages.

Although not strictly a Game Maker magazine, it’s still one of the best. One thing I’ve noticed that it seems to have a small focus on old (Nintendo) games. "Next time: Wisdom Tree" only pushes this point further.

Great job, Russell.

It appears Gm Fetch is already ending after just one issue. Gamma6 announced that GM Fetch is coming to a closing quite surprising after only one, four page issue.

I will probably reuse the name for an upcoming program I am making.

Some of his reasons include.

- Sandy Duncan never responded to our interview questions, even though agreeing to take part. I understand he is a busy man.
- FredFredRickson never replied to our countless reminders even after he agreed to take part in interview.
- Phillip Gamble didn’t really help, and always focused on what was negative by posting bad comments in his blog.
- I don’t really get much response from the team
- We got a pathetic 90 downloads when issue 1 of GMM got over 130 downloads, 40 more than us.
- More people hate GM Fetch than like it, so I have little motivation to donate hard work to people who don’t care.

My question to you guys is; do you even care if GM Fetch is ending? Does anyone care if they come back? My opinion is that GM Fetch is just another failed magazine trying to compete with the big guys.

Since appearing on the Game Maker scene at the start of 2007 YoYo Games have faced criticism from certain members of the community.

Most of this criticism is about poor customer service and problems with the Digital Rights Management that is used to protect Game Maker 7.
Read more…

And the decompiler drama continues. This time with a GM Obfuscator, which obviously obfuscates Game Maker files.

Keep in mind that this doesn’t prevent decompilation. But anybody who will decompile your game will have a hard time making sense out of it.

What’s your opinion?