September 2008
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YYG results by Thursday
Sandy Duncan has written on the YoYo Games blog that the results of YoYo Games’ competition will be announced “NO LATER than 5 pm UK time on Thursday”. The co-operation themed competition was YoYo’s third and had attracted over 275 entries. The winner will receive $1000, with a second-place prize of $500 and $250 for […] More
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New iPhone Game Development Platform
Gendai Games have released an on-application-only alpha of their GameSalad game creation tool. Resources to use during game creation are hosted online, and can be dragged-and-dropped into place. Whilst GameSalad is currently only compatible with the Mac OS platform the games it creates are playable online and on the iPhone. The “YouTube for Games” idea […] More
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GM-Cast, GMTV-Killer?
A new GameMaker TV show in the works, GM-Cast, has hit trouble before the launch of its first episode which we are told will be released by “November 1st AT THE LATEST!“. The idea for GM-Cast apparently came about after a member of the team was refused a posistion at the well established GameMaker TV, […] More
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GameMaker Scope Magazine reaches a new level of professionality
The recently launched GameMaker Scope Magazine (previously GameMaker Magazine) has been getting more professional issue by issue. But their new “hiring” post in the GMC indicates otherwise. The post lists positions available as usual, with an application template, with some odd bits, such as “1. All conversations and organizing will be done over the forums […] More
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YoYo Games Wiki to Grow
Mark Overmars has expressed his desire to turn the currently pathetic wiki on YoYo Games into a central source of GameMaker information. “As some of you might have noticed we have changed the Wiki to use the well-known MediaWiki software. Our hope is that the wiki becomes the best source of information about the use […] More
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GMWeekly and Magazine Stats
Darren Poole has released his sixth issue of GMWeekly (mediafire dl) – one day late. This means that GMWeekly has now released as many issues as GameMaker Scope. If Weekly continues to release on-time it will have reached its 20th issue by the end of the year making it the GameMaker magazine which has released […] More
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YoYo Games Rating system to Change
Many people have moaned at the GMC about what they view as inadequacies with the rating system on YoYo Games. Whilst this is a relatively trivial matter for most of us the conspiracy of the so-called ‘downraters’ appears to have got under the skin of plenty of GameMaker users. In a move that may please […] More
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Save Games whilst Playing Online
If, instead of downloading GameMaker games in the traditional sense, you prefer to use YoYo Games’ InstantPlay technology you might be interested to know of a recent change at GMArcade. GMArcade have updated their “Play Online” feature so that saved games are not wiped each time you restart a game. Describing the feature GMArcade admin […] More
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YoYo Games Save The Planet Competition
YoYo Games announced there 4th competition entitled ‘The YoYo Games: Save The Planet Competition’ which reminds me of the comic that was featured GM Weekly issue 3. This competition features the same rules and prizes that were in all the other YoYo competitions (thats a shocker) , or to quote YoYo directly: “Same prizes, same […] More
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Karoshi in Flash and on the iPhone?
In an interview published yesterday on The Auntie Pixelante blog 21 year old Jesse Venbrux, perhaps better known by his GMC alias of 2Dcube, announced that along with 2 of his classmates he has created a Flash version of his popular suicide game Karoshi. The Flash version of Karoshi will be sold to the highest […] More
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Limited Graphics Game Competition
TIA Software, who previously suggested a 100-games-in-one idea, are holding a $100 “Limited Graphics” GameMaker contest. The entrance criteria are as follows: Your game must only have 2 different colors in it. (your game may have different shades in the 2 colors you choose) Your game must be made of basic shapes (triangle, square, rectangle, […] More
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GameMaker Tech website STILL down
For the past 5 days the website and forum of the GameMaker Technology magazine have been inaccessible for readers of the magazine and staff members. Explaining the situation at the GMC, GameMaker Tech editor gmjab wrote “Our host has unexpectedly closed without any noticed to all its registered users. We are trying to resolve this […] More
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