August 2008
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5 Million GMA Impressions
The GameMaker Affiliation Service has now served over 5,000,000 button impressions! Here are some stats collected through the service on the way to 5 million button impressions. Includes browser/OS usage of people viewing the banners, country reach and total impressions per month. This data is collected from a large number of GameMaker websites so the […] More
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A funny GM comic
After my comments earlier this week about the pointlessness of puzzles in GameMaker publications I was pleased to see that comics do have a place in GameMaker magazines. A funny and topical GameMaker themed comic – hurrah! Taken from GM Weekly #3 More
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Co-operation Competition closes – a look at some of the best games
The deadline for entries to YoYo Games’ third competition has passed with 285 games having been entered. Obviously I haven’t looked at each and every one of these submissions, but here is my pick of some of the best games and most played games that have been submitted. Karoshi Factory Jump, push blocks and press […] More
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Persistence presence of puzzles perplexes me
GameMaker Tech have dropped them, MarkUp have never had them, but the smaller and less established magazines love them – I’m talking about word puzzles and games. The kind of things you would expect to find on the back of newspapers or in a young child’s comic. The crosswords, wordsearches, mazes and spot the differences […] More
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How does the GMking staff stay in touch?
The recently announced GMking blog has published a new post today, shedding some light on the ways their staff collaborates via instant messengers and other forms of communication. The GMking staff is extremely geographically diverse, which makes communication and decision making processes much harder. Many of our staff have an 8 hour or more time […] More
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GMWeekly issue 2
One week after the launch of his first issue, Darren Poole has released the second of his GameMaker Weekly pdf magazine – on time and on schedule. As well as community news the short newsletter style publication also features a review of puzzle game Elimod + Dagros. Download GMWeekly issue 2 (left click). More
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100 Games in 1
Or – yet another attempt to flog CDs of GameMaker created games. The team/person behind the project have rather aptly decided to name themselves “Pure Evil Productions” – bound, I’m sure, to inspire confidence in both game makers and game players. The plan is for 100 GameMaker created games to be sold on a CD, […] More
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It’s raining updates…
It seems that after months of complaining about the lack of updates, the team at YoYo Games have decided to act to put a stop to it. With three updates in the space of three days, is this a taste of things to come? 20th August :: Competition Deadline Approaching The deadline for the third […] More
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Robbie was too Swift
I was the first person to vote in the latest Cage Match. However I decided not to bother leaving a reply. Just thought I would let you know. The final score was Frozzd by 2DCube………………….73 votes, Robbie Swifthand And The Orb Of Mysteries by scream681…..83 votes. The match was a close battle between Frozzd by 2DCube […] More
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The 4 GameMaker magazines
Recently we have seen new releases from the three of the magazines devoted to the GameMaker platform. GameMakerTech and MarkUp are the publications that have released the most issues to date with 13 and 14 magazines respectively. New this year are two magazines – out with the lack of originality and in with a brand […] More
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Yet another magazine surfaces
This time it’s “GMWeekly”. Featuring 3 pages of content, this venture by GMC user DPoole doesn’t seem to exactly be taking a good start. Hello and welcome to a brand new publication, brought to you for free every Friday by me, Darren Poole. This succinct weekly periodical will encompass numerous things in the future, including: […] More
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Oh it’s V3
The ever growing community site, Snowmoons, has finally released what they call V3 of the site. Not much information has been released on what has exactly been changed. However from first glance you can see they had a complete redesign and they also fixed up some coding. The ‘Forum’ is still under construction. Lets hope […] More
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