GameMaker Blog

It has been a year since the first (and only) release of Game Maker under YoYo Games Ltd. A year which has seen the rise of YoYoGames.com, plenty of registration problems and, as is so often the case with Game Maker related matters, a lot of controversy.
Timeline of YoYo Games Ltd
Oct 15th 2004: YoYo Games [...]

Danny has released a video showing the evolution of the GameMaker-TV.com introduction sequence. Not something I was expecting. It’s all well and good making this video which I suppose could be of interest to GMTV enthusiasts, but with only two full episodes made I can’t help but feel this was released a year [...]

Three quick snippets of news from YoYo Games Ltd:
Sandy has quietly mentioned that YoYo plan to invest $5M into the Game Maker software and their website.
“we are planning to spend almost $5M on Game Maker and YoYo Games over the next 2 years. We’ve all been pretty successful in business so far, but not THAT [...]

Writing on PascalGameDevelopment.com, savage, working for SumoDigital (the company working on porting GameMaker) has written
The games are not the things are being ported, but the IDE and engine are. The IDE creates the game files these are then fed into the engine. The same game files works on both Win32 and Mac OS X ( [...]

The MarkUp game maker magazine has released its 12th monthly issue making it the first Game Maker magazine to last this long.
The 50 pages contain only 3 reviews, but a good number of editorials, tutorials and couple of decent game development journals.

Sandy from YoYo Games has hinted at the introduction of a revenue sharing scheme for games hosted on their website.
Sometime later this year we will make some big changes to the way that this site works and many of you will have the opportunity to earn some money for the games that you have created.
One [...]

It appears this is the first post on GameMaker Blog or gmnews about this site which actually astonishes me.
GMArcade is a new website that enables you to play a selection of Game Maker creations from your browser, in a similar fashion to YoYo Games’ “Instant Play” feature through the use of a Java Applet.
The website [...]

…Although this one is actually decent awesome. Russell’s Quarterly doesn’t really have that much of an focus on Game Maker, but game design instead, with reviews of the games Hunter’s Island, Fedora Spade, Death Worm and Shush. It’s also a 72 page read.
…And an awesome simplistic black and white layout that doesn’t lag Acrobat to hell [...]