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No not an article examining the ethics on genetically modified food production, instead a post taking a look at the people who use gamemaker and their collective commerical value.
The GMC is valuable. 48,183 members are valuable - sure this is far from the biggest forum on the Internet but for a company wanting to [...]
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One of the questions I have pondered for a while is how to judge the success of a game. Many people will think this is all to do with the number of downloads achieved or the number of 10/10 ratings they are given, however to me this is just wrong.
Downloads do not really account [...]
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YOYO GAMES LTD failed to submit its accounts for 2006 to Companies House which were due on 12/11/2006.
For those of you who are unaware Companies House is the UK’s official register of companies.
And yes, before you ask this is the right YoYo Games.
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As I mentioned a few days ago the fourth issue of MarkUp has now been released. I know many of you will already have downloaded it.
At 24 pages it is the largest edition to date and included a review of the commercial game Heroes of Might and Magic V (not made in gamemaker). [...]
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Looking at gmlscripts.com following a suggestion from Leif902 brought something back into my mind. Dissociation.
Dissociation: describes the disconnection or lack of connection between things usually associated with each other.
At the bottom of every page of the GMLScripts website there is a line which reads
GMLscripts.com is not affiliated with Mark Overmars, The Game Maker [...]
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One and half months into GameMaker Blog and it looks like it has finally happened. I knew it probably would, it was just a matter of when.
Someone has taken offence to my comments.
The recently released 4th issue of MarkUp included a re-run of an article first seen here on Game Maker Blog, a review of [...]
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Issue 4 of the MarkUp game development magazine published by GMking.org has been released.
Download links are below:
PDF High Quality
PDF Low Quality
XPS
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Personally I think adding a forum to your website is one of the biggest mistakes you can make.
A blog post by Grego advising people on how to create a half decent forum, if they insist on having one, reiterated many of the points I had spinning around in my head.
There is no point in adding [...]