February 2008

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    in Uncategorized

    1 Million Impressions for GMA

    The Game Maker Affiliation Service has now delivered over 1,000,000 button impressions advertising GameMaker related websites since its launch in April 2007. As this milestone figure has been reached I am releasing some statistics showing how impression and click counts have grown up until the end of January 2008. Also released is data which shows […] More

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    in Blog News, Comment, Websites

    GMPlanet Dilemma

    A few days ago saw the launch of GMPlanet a, unusually commercial, GMKing project. The basic premise of the site is of an aggregator. In effect the site brings together game maker news from lots of sites and displays it all in one place making it easy for users of the software to see what […] More

  • 5 Comments

    in Websites

    Days offline

    At 64digits “small server troubles” means several days offline because a member uploaded a malicious program. Hopeless. GameMakerTech look like they may resort to splitting up a huge tutorial – not really magazine content IMO. GameMakerBlog is doomed. More

  • in Competition

    GM Tutorials Jan tutorial competition results

    GMTutorials have announced the winners of their $100 January tutorial competition. The first place and the biggest prize, $75 cash or invested into hosting, goes to Schyler. The second place and the second best prize, $25 / hosting, goes to FWGames. Details of how you can win one of the three domain names up for […] More

  • 15 Comments

    in Websites

    Game Maker Website membership numbers

    If, like me, you like statistics then good. Here is some information about the number of user registrations at various GameMaker related websites. Most figures are approximations. English GameMaker Websites YoYo Games – 87,000 Game Maker Community – 60,500 GameMakerGames – 1,600 64Digits – 4,300 – It has been so long since the site has […] More

  • 12 Comments

    in Blog News

    Equivocal Post

    Apparently GameMaker Blog has been hacked. I wasn’t expecting this at all. It was quite a surprise to read about it. Everything centers around one post “The Mark Overmars Suicide Cult” which appeared on GameMakerBlog late yesterday, posted by some one calling themselves ‘Jinxtengu’. The post contains some deeply disturbing suggestions that Game Maker users […] More

  • 10 Comments

    in Uncategorized

    The Mark Overmars Suicide Cult

    Having a look around on the GMC forums I noticed a distinct lack of any form of “Mark Overmars Suicide cult” I was shocked! Why hadn’t anyone thought of it before? Was I the only one? After all the least we could do to show our support for this great man (and his brilliant program) […] More

  • in Competition

    GM Helper: Script, Example, Lib Competition

    4 days into the month and a third Game Maker contest has been announced. Don’t say I never link you to competitions… Alex Polfliet’s GameMakerHelper.com has $35 up for grabs in a “script, example, or lib/extension” competition. There are two prizes, of $25 and $10 and the deadline is 3rd March. Get script/example/lib/extension making! More

  • in Competition

    GMTutorials Feb Tutorial Contest

    Following on from last months $75 tutorial writing competition, Calle Ekdahl’s GMTutorials.com is again running a contest. This time 3 domain names are up for grabs which will be awarded to 2 random tutorial submissions and one to the tutorial deemed the best. Last month’s competition attracted 12 entries, despite little publicity. The contest has […] More

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    in Tutorials

    The Art and Science of Programming

    Everyone new to Game Maker should read this well-written article by Rick_Slick at the GMC. Computer programming is more often an art rather than a science. You can read all the books on computer programming that you want, but unless you’re one of those people that just pick things up right away, the only way […] More

  • 5 Comments

    in YoYo Games

    YoYo announce second competition

    YoYo Games have announced the details of their second Game Maker competition. Prizes still total $1750 but this time the theme is ‘Ancient Civilisation’. I guess we can expect to see lots of Egyptian pyramids then….. ‘Ancient Civilisation’ is quite vague so leaves a wide scope but I expect we will see one or two […] More

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