April 2008

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    GMA 2 Million

    The free Game Maker Affiliation Service banner exchange has now delivered over 2,000,000 button impressions. I will take this opportunity to release some data collected via the system. The country, browser and OS share of all pageviews delivered by GMA can been seen in GMA 2M stats.xls This is one of the largest collections of […] More

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    in Free Software

    Game Maker makes top 50 freeware games ever

    5 Game Maker games make the list. A British magazine, "PCZone" has listed the "top 50 freeware games ever", with 5 GM-made games in it, on the following positions: 35: Flywrench by messhof 33: Clean Asia by cactus 19: Deathworm by JTR 17: Frozzd by 2DCube 10: Seiklus by tapeworm Congratulations to all the makers […] More

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    Which way to go?

    The rise of GameMaker Tech, launch of Game Maker Magazine and apparent demise of MarkUp has put me in an awkward position. Which magazine do I contribute to? Previously MarkUp has been my magazine of choice, but I haven’t really been happy with what has been going on their for the last couple of months. […] More

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    in Blog News

    GameMakerBlog + 1 year

    It has been about a year since the first post was made on GameMaker Blog on the 19th April 2007. Beats the length of any of my other failed blogging attempts by miles. It has been quite an eventful year, although with a community consisting mainly of teenagers and the controversial emergence of YoYo Games […] More

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    April Magazines

    So far this month we are yet to see any new issues of the major Game Maker magazines. MarkUp has been notably absent as it normally releases to a pretty strict schedule at the start of the month. Whilst GameMaker Tech have been delayed following several days downtime at their forum. Still they plan to […] More

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    in Comment, Websites

    Game Maker Central

    It appears GMC member, Camman, has launched a web site entitled Game Maker Central . It is similar to the popular Will Host For Food.  Personally, I found the site much more graphically appealing than Will Host For Food, and even better is that thus far there are no ads (hope it stays that way).  […] More

  • in Comment

    Game Maker on GameTap

    GameTap is running a week-long series devoted to the indie game scene. This is the exact reason why two Game Maker users were interviewed on the website. This was brought to our attention by GMC moderator ‘xot’ in a topic called; Th15 And Cactus Interviewed By Gametap. Sean Chan creator of Battleships Forever: “My message […] More

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    gmShare.com

    Stu Bedore from mygmgame.com (earlier gmb review) has launched a second similar service at gmshare.com. At a quick glance gmshare appears almost identical to mygmgame, however Stu says the sites are different “Mygmgame.com is more of a all-around file host. I wanted something dedicated to GM more.” Gmshare appears to be more of a community […] More

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    in Comment

    Game Maker Magazines

    In the past few months we have seen the launch of a couple of new GameMaker magazines. First there was Mattthew_H’s Game Maker Magazine which released its first issue in mid-February and its second in mid-March. At the end of March we then saw the first issue of GMFetch magazine emerge with just four pages […] More

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    in Comment

    On Decompilers

    You may have noticed that despite all the talk of decompilers elsewhere recently GameMaker Blog has remained a decompiler free zone. Well, I can’t contain myself any longer so here are a few questions explaining what the situation is. What is the decompiler? At the end of January a program was released that enables anyone […] More

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    in Competition

    GMArcade Contest

    The recently re-designed GMArcade is holding a game-submission contest with a top prize of a domain name and free hosting for a year. To enter you must upload an original game to the site, and use it as your sole hosting service. Second and third place prizes consist of upgraded memberships at the site which […] More

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    in Uncategorized

    Smarty backs down

    One of the more popular GMC staff members, Smarty has decided to get demoted to “member” status. This was posted and pinned by KC LC at the GMC. Here is the topic. Smarty was a great administrator and he knew alot about what was going on. As KC states in the post: “all the staff […] More

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