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I was informed by Grego that today is Blog Action Day. This issue being promoted was the environment so I searched YoYoGames for relevant games, ‘environment’ and ‘recycle’ both returned no results but I did manage to discover “Clean the World“.
A game in which you are a gnome and must clean up rubbish which has [...]

This is the English-only GMC I’m talking about.
If you can read, write and understand English then you’re okay - if not you’re, to put it delicately, screwed.
Unless of course you happen to speak German or Dutch and belong to one of the marvellous unofficial foreign language communities such as the German Game Maker Domain and [...]

Yet another of these topics has arisen in the distributing games section of the community, topics in which people relatively new to GameMaker come up with the oh-so-unoriginal idea of making a website to sell GameMaker made games.
Their plans are so so well thought through - from the start they know how much commission they [...]

New users are killing the forum.

Oh boo hoo.
One typo. Make a post about it, won’t you?

There has been a lot talked about, or rather written about, the recent addition of an Instant Play to YoYoGames. Most of the comments are positive however there have been some complaining that their games do not appear to be compatible with instant play, and of course there have been those moaning that they want [...]

What an idiot. Insulting people trying to help you is a great move isn’t it…

Scorptek’s Game Maker news blog appears to be dead, or at the very least dieing.
Starting in March 2006 the blog has so far had a total of 161 posts, however the latest post on the 2nd September was the only post for that month. A little over a week ago I followed the instructions on [...]