December 2008

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    GM Station “Magazine”

    A new GameMaker magazine website has been launched.  GM Station takes the form of a single webpage. Included: Copy of Sandy Duncan’s introduction to the Save our Planet competition (which ends in four days). Screenshot of the Mubbly Tower page on the YoYo Games website. Reviews:  “This here is a really good pinball game. The sounds are […] More

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    Seasonally short mid-week community links

    Voting has closed in GameMaker Blog’s very own community awards for the year 2008.  The votes will be verified and the final results published tomorrow (January 1st). WillHostForFood is currently blacklisted by Google, resulting in nice warning messages everytime I try to view a page on the GMC which contains something hosted at WHFF in […] More

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    2008: Most Popular Posts

    They were requested for 2007, so here they are for 2008 – the most popular posts of the year on GameMaker Blog. Most discussed posts (comments this year): Prodigy GM gone for good? (51 comments) – “Everyone’s favourite” GameMaker site appeared to be gone. It didn’t last. YoYo host GameMaker 7 Pro Crack (44 this […] More

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    (Nearly) New Year – New Theme

    For a while now I have been looking to update the theme on GameMaker Blog to give it a fresh look and, more importantly, a better implementation of listing post comments. So from today we are using a new theme suggested by GMB writer gamez93.  The new look gives a wider portion of the page […] More

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    2008 Review: Competitions

    2008 has probably been the best year for Game Maker competitions yet. This is mainly down to the three high-profile contests launched by YoYo Games this year, and the results of last year’s winter-themed competition being announced which has seen over $5,000 given out to game creators. The themes of the competitions launched this year […] More

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    2008 Review: Game Maker Magazines

    Over the past year the fate of different Game Maker magazines has contrasted.  The year started with two strong magazines, GameMaker Tech and MarkUp, going head to head with their January releases.  However in 2008 these often praised publications had a troubled year, with both magazines releasing less frequently than they had done so in […] More

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    Mid-week community links

    GameMaker Tech magazine have completed their giveaway of 10 free GameMaker 7 pro licenses. The winning entries in their competition were submitted by T-Dub, Peter Colborne-Veel, Manuel, Giorgio Sotiropoulos, Rigoberto Juarez, Mariano Ariel de la Torre, Schalk, Jatz, Newbguy and Matthew Kremer. Congratulations to all the winners and to GameMaker Tech for organising a competition […] More

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    “We’re running out of time”

    The spiraling effects of the credit crunch means that ThePlaySource may soon* be offline!  In a shameless plea for GMC users to fund his failed project ThePlaySource’s owner writes “I really don’t want this website to go down” More

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    Vote in our Community Awards!

    Voting has now closed! The results can be found here. The nominations process has now closed and voting can commence in GameMaker Blog’s very own awards which hopes to showcase the producers of the best Game Maker resources. You may vote once in each category upto the 31st of December. The votes will then be verified […] More

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    Prodigy Game Magazine, issue 2

    FUN FACT: Did you know that its almost been a year since the Nazi-zine post?’ It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for… the PGM is back. We here at the ProdigyGM would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Christmas is the time to show love, because God showed love to us by […] More

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    Mid-week community links

    Check out: James Rhodes has launched the third version of GM-Resources, with an easy to use AJAX front-end. GM-Resources makes it easy to search for sprites and scripts on the Official Game Maker Community. Play: Block Maneouvres 2.2 [ gmc | yyg ] is a fun block-pushing game with 50 pre-built levels, plus a level […] More

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    YoYo Helpdesk to Change (Finally!)

    As stated in a recent interview with GameMaker Tech magazine YoYo Games will be upgrading their online help desk which provides support to GameMaker users. 1. We promise to respond to every help desk request within 24 hours on weekdays. Weekend requests will normally be dealt with on Mondays. 2. The existing queues have been […] More

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