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Proof that comment links do get clicked, if you ever had any doubts.
A comment appeared earlier today, after being held in moderation, from the gamemaker treehouse - another game maker blog. The treehouse offers a promotional bribe in it latest post, and I thought I’d give it a go. I have been [...]

An, umm, interesting conversation I found on the GMC. All about how someone can’t be bothered to provide a screenshot for their game because, and I quote, “I just don’t have time to put on a screenshot now school is back on“.
And he expects people to download and rate his game.
The worst thing is, [...]

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I was lucky enough to have been given a preview of the second episode of GMKing’s Game Maker podcast, which this week features Zack (a.k.a darksys92 on the GMC) stepping in for Eyas. The main difference is that this second episode at 19 minutes is about two-thirds the length of the pilot which, I [...]

What in practise looks like a good idea can easily be misused, see here.
It would make so much more sense if there was some method in place for either topic creators or mods to show which problems were solved or unsolved so that the unsolved problems get the attention they deserve instead of being burried [...]

I hadn’t quite got started in my rants about YoYoGames when I became aware of the MarkUp situation. This led me to reconsider opinions towards YoYo which had been on the verge of becoming less than friendly.
YoYo (YYG) are a new company, they have only recently taken over the management and distribution of Game [...]

It may not be the official magazine of YYG, but it’s officialy endorsed by them,…
It’s MarkUp.
And it’s official. The moment has finally come.
And it was a long time coming,…
Congratulations to Eyas, Robin and everyone else at GMKing for all their hard work.
Some stats*:
Number of hints dropped in the past 7 days: 435
Water pipes [...]

One of the sites I promised to take a look at quite a while ago now was GMLScripts.com. Each month a script from GMLScripts is featured in MarkUp, and the site was also suggested for mention by a reader of this blog.
GMLScripts currently contains over 100 scripts for use in Game Maker, and the [...]