March 2008

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    in GMC, YoYo Games

    What next at the GMC?

    Recent days have seen YoYo Games truly communicating with its community for the first time since it came into existence. We’ve had an upgraded forum with a new skin, frank admissions of YoYo’s shortcomings and the re-introduction of post counts. On top of that I am now frequently seeing Mark Overmars and Sandy Duncan online […] More

  • 28 Comments

    in Comment

    Austin Lindgren is ShadePlay23

    I have been threatened and insulted by Austin Lindgren, aka ShadePlay23 from ShadePlay23’s GameMakerSchool. ShadePlay is not 26, 27, 23 or even 19 as claimed at various locations. Austin, aged 12 is from Lewis County, Washington state. This is supported by evidence provided from a highschool athletics profile and “The Chronicle”, a local newspaper which […] More

  • 4 Comments

    in GMC

    Post count is back!

    At a risk of sounding like gmnews, Chronic has announced that member post counts will once again be implemented at the GMC (from effect immediately). Since the current IPB powered GMC came into existence in 2003 there have never been public post counts. The previous eZboard forum did have post counts but a decision was […] More

  • 23 Comments

    in Comment, Websites

    I bought GameMaker School

    Broadcasting to the world a domain name you plan to register isn’t the brightest idea is it? Not so when I am king of domains starting “GameMaker…” (GameMakerBlog.com, GameMaker.tv, GameMakerStream.com, GameMakerTV.com, GameMaker.es, GameMakerNews.com, GameMaker8.com). GameMakerSchool.com has been added to my list. Some of you will probably think this was a harsh move on my half […] More

  • 11 Comments

    in YoYo Games

    Sandy: “our customer support is terrible”

    Sandy Duncan CEO of YoYo Games has admitted that their “customer support is terrible” and that “the DRM sucks”. “If it helps I think some parts of the site suck, I think, at times, that the DRM sucks and I think, always, that our customer support is terrible.I spend most of my time and energy […] More

  • 10 Comments

    in GMC, YoYo Games

    New look YoYo-ized GMC

    The GMC is looking distinctly green. Here is a quick comparison conducted between the ‘old’ GMC (on 16th March) and the recently updated YoYo Games styled version (today). I am unable to find the option to revert back to the old version which I remember an administrator stating would probably remain. More

  • 3 Comments

    in Comment, Reviews

    GMTV 3 detailed review

    …by everybody’s favorite [sic] writer. I have to say, to begin this with, the third episode greatly increased the quality of GMTV compared to the past two episodes. I won’t be jumping into the technical aspects until the end — I’ll focus on the content. The main content in this episode is reviewing the 10 […] More

  • in Uncategorized

    GMTV, episode 3

    …is out.  Featuring a lot of reviews and an interview with a GMNews/GMTech writer, Bendodge, which GMTV’s page bizarrely describes as "an interview with a writer from both Skorptek’s "Game Maker Blog" and for "Game Maker News"". My review of it coming soon. What’d you think? More

  • 13 Comments

    in Websites

    Gamemaker Magazine, pt. 2

    …and the second issue is out, featuring the following: Interview with Edge and FredFredrickson Tutorial “save with your own file format” Editorials Gamemaker Magazine, What sites to post your game on and what you think should be in the next version of Game Maker The making of “Bloopie” so far Making a GM game that […] More

  • 12 Comments

    in Uncategorized

    A breath of fresh air

    Download link Hurray for the new GameMakerTech design seen in Issue 11. It’s clean, it’s slick and yes, it’s still got a tinge of blue about it. I am devastated at the cancellation of the GMT slogan competition, I spent all of about 5 seconds coming up with a couple of suggestions. But really, with […] More

  • 14 Comments

    in Comment

    Read the full blog post on the GMB wiki

    …Wait, what? Why should we read a part of your magazine (fyi: GMT’s out) from your wiki? Shouldn’t it go the other way: have a sneak peek at the wiki, not the magazine? This doesn’t really make any sense. You see that there’s an "interview" in the magazine that you really want to read, then […] More

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