October 2008
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Incredible Hulk DS Game prototyped in GameMaker
The makers of the official Incredible Hulk game for the Nintendo DS have revealed that they made a prototype of the game using YoYo Games’ GameMaker software. In a four page article on the game development website Gamasutra developers Fizz Factor give an insight into the development process of the game. More
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TIA Limited Gfx Competition Entries
The $100 TIA limited graphics competition is accepting entries until 10th November, from when 10 days of voting commences. Here is a look at the three games that have been submitted so far. Black and Blue – GMC topic and download link A surprisingly addictive arcade game where all you can do is shoot! You […] More
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Fake Fred Fails – GMC attitude stinks
An immature GMC member has created an account with the username ‘FredFrederickson‘ which he was using to impersonate GMC global moderator FredFredrickson. This post is not written however to give attention to such stupidity of attention seekers, but instead to the attitudes of other community members including a moderator. After a good deal of confusion […] More
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Where are the online highscores?
It has now been more than a year since Mark Overmars announced that YoYo Games would create an online highscore system ‘pretty soon’. “We will enhance the highscore mechanism in Game Maker such that scores will be stored on the website and there will be many different lists. We also plan to connect the highscore […] More
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Review: Doodle Balls – artistic fun?
Doodle balls, a game created by Stubbjax02 yesterday, is in the beta stages–though it is rather difficult to tell! The graphics are superb, and the sounds are indeed brilliantly done, plus the gameplay is rather addicting – even though the only mode available is easy. More
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GameMaker Blog Game Reviews
Over the next few weeks GameMaker Blog will be experimenting with the inclusion of GameMaker game reviews on the site. Instead of reviewing well-established and already popular games we will instead focus on games that are currently in the development stages and may not be well known. The first of these reviews, of Doodle Balls, […] More
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YoYoGames.com gets a makeover
The YoYoGames website has changed, featuring a slightly altered layout. According to the YYG “glog”, there still are a few bugs on the site: We know there are still one or two bugs, but I took the decision to go ahead and deploy since most of you will have more time to use the site […] More
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Boss Battles with Russell
Tom Russell has released the fourth edition of his quarterly game development magazine, subtitled “Boss Battles”. The pdf is free to download (left click only, 3.1 MB) and contains 90 pages of articles, features and game reviews and even a 13-page short story. More
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YYG/GMPedia wiki merge now official
YoYo Games have announced that the rumoured merge between their wiki and GMPedia, a community project by GMking is now official. Earlier, the GMking blog confirmed the merge. All 600 articles from the original GMpedia wiki will be migrated onto the YoYo Games wiki. This also includes articles not related to Game Maker, but computer […] More
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GameMaker Instant Play Decompiler
Games available via Instant Play on the YoYo Games website can now be decompiled following the release of the second version of a GameMaker decompiler authored by Clam. [Click images to view at full size] More
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YYG Wiki still changing…
As GameMaker Blog suggested a week ago it appears that YoYo Games are preparing their wiki for a merger with gmpedia.org. All adverts on the YoYo Games wiki have been removed and its contents have been licensed thorough a Creative Commons License, which fits in with the GMKing ethos. …we want the new Wiki to […] More
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AdSense for Games
Google have launched a beta of their in-game advertising solution, dubbed “AdSense for games”. The program makes it easy to display ads in placements the game creator defines, such as before a game, after a level, or when the game is over. The beta is currently only accepting publishers with high traffic levels. I am […] More
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