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In this post I take a very quick flashback to earlier issues mentioned in gamemaker blog and take a look to see how they are developing.
My article on the Forted game is going to be featured in a future issue of MarkUp - the gamemaker magazine I like the most. Micco the creator of [...]

Just a quick update on progress with the Game Maker Affiliation Service provided by gamemakerblog.com
There are currently 6 banners in rotation, however only 4 users have placed their code on their site.
Thanks to Jason from GameMakerResource who reported a problem with sites opening in the GMA iframe instead of in a new window, this has [...]

Funny moment of the ((’week’) OR (<insert time period here if I am too lazy to find one every week>!))
Courtesy of Grego from the GMC,
GMC member: That isn’t exactly helpful, What did it try to download?
Grego: I decided not to find out surprisingly. I just find the idea of unexpected things [...]

The ignorance of some members at the GMC never ceases to amaze me. In the past two days I have come across as many posts promoting websites which look terrible in Firefox based browsers. This alone is forgivable, just. But since the creators of these sites are fully aware that their [...]

It’s not often that I come across ‘decent’ games at the GMC. There are a lot of good efforts, but most releases leaving me wanting more - in a bad way. The number of games where the focus has all been on one aspect of the game is high. For example games [...]

ANNOYING TRAIT SEVEN
SHOUTING ALL THE TIME
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Continuing my investigation my investigation into gamemaker made games that have YouTube trailers I came across Naruto: Ninja Way, a fighting game, released onto the GMC by Geou. The video doesn’t claim to be a trailer, but a demonstration of early A.I in the game.
But hey, there is sound. Trouble is I [...]

A good resource I came across recently was Simple Status, a website that can generate graphical status bars for those of you that insist on displaying the progress of development on your up-and-coming games in your forum signatures.
Much neater than the usual ||||||||||||||s I hope you’ll agree.
Gamemakerblog is online
An example of the [...]