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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 been up [...]

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 [...]

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) would be [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 you [...]

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 civilisations [...]