GameMaker Blog

The third episode of GMking’s Game Maker audcast has been released, nearly a year after the second.
The show is, as before, hosted by MarkUp editors Robin Monks and Eyas Sharaiha. Topics discussed include the re-writing of the GameMaker runner in C++ (including “glog” abuse!), the insecurities of GameMaker and the release of the obfuscator. [...]

GMKing.org are set to relaunch their GameMaker Audcast “soon”.
Two episodes of the podcast were released in June last year, however they no longer appear to be online.  The podcasts included discussion of the latest GameMaker developments and community topics.

YoYo Games have officially launched their third competition. The theme for this competition is ‘cooperation’ which was nominated and voted for by members of the GMC a while back. Users have been waiting a long time for the judges to finish competition 2 and announce the start of for competition 03. The [...]

There was much annoyance at the fact what defines Civilization, there was a total of 260 entries into the competition, the deadline was increased after someone at YYG thought it would be a good idea to try and move the whole website over to a new server - near the end of the contest. But [...]

The GM Code Project is a new “Game Maker webshow”. You can see episode 1 here.
GMC Topic.
My name is Zach Hext and I am proud to introduce, GM Code Project, the newest webshow about creating games with Game Maker! Throughout the show, we step you through actually creating a game, and explain how some [...]

Monthly update from YoYo
In summary:

Mac version delayed
C++ runner ready for Beta
Competition 2 results by the end of the week.