Filed under: GMC | 5 Comments »
The size of users personal mail inbox at the GMC has been doubled. Members can now store 100 posts in their account online.
Thankfully this update was placed in the Announcements forum rather than the Community section of the forum to limit the pointless dicussion which normally follows.
Filed under: GMTech | 2 Comments »
GameMakerTech’s notoriously unreliable forum has finally moved hosts.
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http://www.gmtech.vlexo.net/forum/
The new forum can be found at http://www.gmtech.kwix.info/forum, all posts and user accounts have been moved over. For a magazine which is improving at such [...]
Filed under: GMC, YoYoGames | 11 Comments »
The new look YoYo-ized Game Maker Community with ads?
Filed under: Uncategorized | 12 Comments »
The most popular “instant play” style website besides YoYoGames, GMArcade, has been under attack and is once again looking to upgrade their servers.
“First of all, I would like to apologize to you for todays downloading and online play downtime. We had someone continuously download a file over 125,000 times. This is also why the server [...]
Filed under: GMC, YoYoGames | 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Comment | 28 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: GMC | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Comment, Websites | 23 Comments »
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 [...]