May 2008
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GM Hacker Challenge
There has been so many attempts at trying to protect your created games. Just when you thought the ‘GM Obfuscator‘ was the answer, uuf6429 has come up with a fresh attempt. The Game Maker Hacker Challenge is basically a public beta testing session. A new version is made, and you hack it and he improves […] More
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GMTech 12: The Review
GameMakerTech Issue 12 was released on May 29th – for details and to download click here. Following the much improved magazine design introduced for issue 11 GameMaker Tech was looking the slickest of all GameMaker magazines. However I think that this, the second issue to have this new layout, is more important as it will […] More
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Game Maker Tech Issue 12
GameMaker Tech’s long anticipated 12th issue has finally been released, and it has a lot of content – 50 pages to be exact. It has been several months since the new look issue 11 became available, so whilst I welcome the next issue of this high-quality publication I am disappointed that it has been delayed […] More
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Do not merge this post
A fuss has kicked off at the GMC about the moderators merging forum posts in, surprise surprise, the Community section. I won’t go into details about the original complaint as you can read about it using the link above and it isn’t particularly interesting. However, the following post did bring a smile to my face: […] More
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Game Maker Games Contest
GameMaker Games have launched a one month Game creation contest with the theme “this game is art”. Prizes will be vouchers or gift certificates of some type. For full details of the entrance criteria and rules click here. More
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Stencyl before GameMaker 8?
Back in January this year Stencyl, the currently under-development open-source game development engine, founded a Limited Liability Company to manage their project. Speaking of the reasons behind the move Stencyl’s webmaster and Lead Web Programmer Stephen said… More
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GameMaker runner in C++ almost complete
GMFetch, formerly a magazine now a blog, have finally heard back from Sandy at YoYo Games regarding some questions they asked about the Game Maker decompiler. Oh, and GMFetch, judging from the photo below Sandy Duncan is most definitely male 😉 More
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New Community website
A new community website for users of Game Maker has launched. GamerGM.com has a file upload facility, forum and reviews section and also includes an interview with SnailFox, creator of the game 65 Million and 1 BC. More
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Where is GMTech?
In the past I have often compared the latest magazine releases from MarkUp and GameMakerTech. After Game Maker Magazine issue 3 and MarkUp issue 13 were released in April I was asked by Eyas if I would be making a comparison post. I replied that I would probably not until GameMakerTech released their 12th issue […] More
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First hardcopy GM magazine announced
The Skyfire Insider is the first hardcopy GM magazine (it’s one of those things that you can touch in real life!): instead of reading it at your computer, read it anywhere you want to! I have already ordered my own copy. I wonder if they ship to Finland with FedEx or a traditional newsletter… See […] More
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GMFetch becomes a blog
From a magazine to a blog. I think this is a good idea, although the technical implementation doesn’t impress me. More
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YoYo to endorse Obfuscator?
As you may know I am disappointed that YoYo Games have not released a patch to enable users of Game Maker 7 to protect their games from the widely-known-about decompiler. Despite this it looks like they may will endorse the obfuscator project started by GMC member Schreib. “This project is not officially supported by neither […] More
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