GameMaker Blog

TheGMRace have released the results of the first stage of their competition. The number of games remaining in the competition have been reduced from 20 down to 10 after a series of head-to-head comparisons of the entered games. Rather bizarrely we can see which games won each tie but we will have [...]

Alex, a well known GMC member, has stepped down from his position as an advisor to the GameMakerTech magazine. Also on the way out is trose7 who had 3 reviews published in the latest issue. According trose7 they were “fired for having an opinion on a game in my review“, although of course this [...]

So true.

Apparently it’s not news but I’m glad to see YoYo have been keeping the community informed of what has been going on recently. Online highscore tables are a feature being investigated.

So, GameMaker TV is finally here.
The reception at the GMC appears to be pretty even, there are some shortcomings and disappointments (why do people get their hopes up so high?), but there also appear to be quite a large group of people who were pleasantly surprised with the result.
As for my opinion? Well I’m [...]

It has been brought to my attention that thegmrace Game Maker contest has experienced some problems in receiving entry forms. If you’ve entered today (the 15th) I advise you to check the website and follow the instructions to ensure your game gets through.

I recently answered an invitation in the team request section of the Game Maker Community forum asking for people to help test the early beta of a game. The team request section isn’t normally a place I frequent since it tends to be full of repetitive baldy worded posts requesting an entire game development [...]

The November issue of the MarkUp game development magazine is now available for download. The release was, rather unusually for MarkUp, delayed for a few days because of a dip in the number of contributions received following many previous successful issues.
Robin opens the magazine, rather bizarrely in my opinion, by mentioning his love [...]