Issue 3 of MarkUp released

Issue 3 of the MarkUp magazine has been released today.
Details about the magazine and the contents of the May eddition are avalible on the MarkUp website, so my advice to you is go there and download the mag.
My article on the importance of game manuals is on page 19.
Enjoy
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This week’s review

A quick look back at what has become of issues mentioned during the previous week on gamemaker blog.
My first article has been included in the next issue of MarkUp gamemaker magazine, I’ve seen it in the final draft copy.  The magazine will be released at the begining of May.  And more of my content may [...]

sPaM (PM spam)

On Saturday morning I received my first unsolicited Personal Message at the GMC.
It was from FullForceGames and was an attempt to get me to join their gamemaker team (I think), unless it was some crafty way to try and increase traffic to their website.
Here is the PM in full:
Hi, we are starting a new website [...]

YouTube gamemaker game trailer

I was pleasantly surprised and impressed to see that GMC member Dinsdale has made use of YouTube to deliver a trailer for his Lander Remix game. The 1 minuite trailer has been viewed around 20 times, and shows a useful and modern promotional technique that can be used to promote games.
I expect that most, [...]

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Clone forums suck

A couple of days ago I came across an excellent article by GMC member and fellow British blogger and moaner Grego on the subject of clone forums.

These “Wannabe Forums” as Grego calls them really drive me insane too. Going back a few years to when I was using gamemaker the first time these forums [...]

Fact: Most gamemaker magazines fail

Continuing my search for gamemaker magazines I came across a site called omgili, which seems to steal, *cough*, I mean archive, the content of a number of forums.
The topic, of which the GMC original appears to have been deleted, starts when a member introduces his proposals for a magazine devoted to gamemaker, only to have [...]