November 2008
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Zerosoft’s $100 Christmas Competition
A total of $100 is up for grabs in Zerosoft’s Christmas Game Maker competition. Writing on the Zerosoft Games forum Jess Horton said “we want your games to be simple, fun, and have a Christmas theme. The genre or style you choose doesn’t matter and graphics will not win the competition so this will be […] More
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GM Weekly releases 15th issue
Oh dear, GMWeekly made a mistake when linking to an article on GameMaker Blog. Never fear! The interview with GMWeekly creator Darren Poole can be found here. More
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GMWeekly releases 15th issue
GMWeekly have today released their 15th issue (download) which means they have now produced as many issues as MarkUp and more issues than any other Game Maker magazine. Earlier this week I spoke to the creator of the magazine, Darren Poole, and asked him about the idea behind GMWeekly and got his thoughts on the […] More
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Immortal Defense earns $7,500
StudioEres (Rinkuhero) has sold 385 copies of Immortal Defense in an eighteen month period, receiving revenues of $7,449.69. The space-themed tower defense game, originally priced at $22.95, now sells at the lower price of $14.95. More
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Mid-week community links
Play this: Mega Block Man [ YYG | GMC ] – 3D puzzle game which has received a very positive response at the GMC , including “out of all the 3D games made in GM [that] I’ve played, this is my favourite“. Check it out: IVGM is a new blog dedicated to featuring reviews with […] More
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Four Tips To Creating Your Own Game
The process of creating your own game is definitely not a walk in the park. There are an endless number of steps that need to be taken, and that is before the coding can even begin. Once those steps are complete, coding could easily see you spiral down into a world of confusion and bugs […] More
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The “Instant Play” options
The belief amongst some people that Instant Play negates the need for a game to be downloaded is an illusion. Files are downloaded when you run a game, even with YoYo Games’ instant play – however gamers do not have to go through the process of choosing where to save a game or extracting or […] More
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2DCube is the new FredFredrickson
Another new GameMaker ‘magazine’ has been released, just a day after Prodigy Game Magazine hit the GMC. This magazine however takes the much more practical approach of being a PowerPoint slide show distributed as a password protected download. “GRandER” – (suggestions regarding the origins of the name wanted!) – features a review of Iji a […] More
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Gnazine returns… as Prodigy Game Magazine
ProdigyGM have returned with a new Game Maker Magazine. After their unsuccessful attempt with the unfortunately titled gNAZIne last year which managed just two issues. “We are not politically correct at all. We give out intense news, previews, and reviews.” More
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More YYG Instant Play Vulnerabilities
After earlier discovering an exploit that enabled a Firefox extension to secretly be downloaded whilst a user runs an Instant Play application James Rhodes has discovered several more vulnerabilities in YoYo Games’ Instant Play feature. One vulnerability can fetch the login hash of Windows XP user’s logged into YoYo Games if they have selected the […] More
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Instant Play: YYG Vulnerability
Go back a couple of years and the standard answer to “how to I get my game to work online?” was, “you don’t”. However in the present day you would probably be greeted with a variety of options. Think YoYo Games’ Instant Play, GMBed, GMX, GMArcade and YAIPP. These are the better known of the […] More
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Limited Graphics Competition Results
The results of TIA Productions’ limited graphics competition have been released, despite the fact that the main site continues to say that judging is still in progress. The $100 first prize has been awarded to Spring Loaded [play online | download .zip], a fast-paced platform puzzler, by kbyoyoa. Explaining the reasons behind the result TIA […] More
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