February 2008
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YoYo Games – One year on from GameMaker 7
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: […] More
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GMTV Title Sequence
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 too early […] More
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YoYo to invest $5M in Game Maker
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 […] More
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GameMaker on Linux?
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 […] More
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YoYo Games hint at Revenue Sharing
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 […] More
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GM Arcade
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. […] More
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Yet Another Magazine
…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 […] More
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GameMakerTech have standards
It appears GameMakerTech have standards – hurrah! Mod gets confused at the GMC – well ‘automation’ and sellmygmgame don’t really go together… Mod gets helpful – obviously anyone not understanding GMC errors is stupid More
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Game Maker Magazine
Another new Game Maker Magazine has been launched. Yep that’s its name “Game Maker Magazine”. (gmc link) Whilst GameMakerTech have to hold a caption competition to come up with a snappy slogan Game Maker Magazine has one from the start: “The Information you need to know, today“. Almost as good as the magazine name I’m […] More
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GMC Spam Fest
The GMC appears to have suddenly become popular with spammers. I love the way GMC users bump spam posts. How helpful. I reported one within minutes of it appearing and it was still there more than an hour later, albeit this time with 4 replies. More
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Sell Your GM Games
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. Bad website. Really, the implementation is shockingly bad – and the fact that the entire process is 0% automated only adds to the mockery. The site “of course will get 30% of your sales for hosting and selling your games“. Of course. “If the game is incomplete or is […] More
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