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    GMKing and GMTV to part company

    GameMaker Blog can exclusively reveal that Game Maker TV is to split from Game Maker media group GMKing.  Both of these organisations have been troubled of late with very little emerging from the brands of GMKing this year which include MarkUp, the GMcast podcast, GMTV and the former wiki (now integrated with the YoYo Games […] More

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    PM spam to decline at GMC?

    Spam via Personal Messages (PMs) has long been an irritant at the GMC as after creating an account there was previously no limit on the number of PMs a user could send. Hence usernames could be harvested en mass and messages touting the value of brand name trainer replicas, anatomy enlargement products and 3-member hastily […] More

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    Game Jolt

    Game Jolt is a relatively new Freeware games host with a growing user base and a sense of graphical polish. Game Jolt prides itself on a central niche aspect: it aggregates the products from numerous game creation languages and programs into the one hosting platform. Content wise the site already has a number of well […] More

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    YoYo Games plan to port Game Maker to mobiles

    YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan has reiterated his intention to enable Game Maker games to be played on mobile phones in the future. Just over a  year ago he announced “Our vision is for Game Maker games to be running on non PC platforms such as phones, portable devices and Consoles“.¹  Today in response to a […] More

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    New Magazine: Game Maker Development Insight

    A new magazine titled “Game Maker Development Insight” was published and posted on the Game Maker Community today featuring 23 pages containing interviews and tutorials. The magazine appears to be ran only by PokemonSilverCrystal, LarsonCreativity and Wombat. The magazine is based off of PokemonSilverCrystal’s GM Interviews which was released back in February. After opening the […] More

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    Game Maker Community Game

    As of  today the idea pitched by grimmjow on April 17th, has taken course as the very first Game Maker Community Game has been started. “The Game Maker Community Game (GMCG) is a game created together by the community, hence the name. It was sparked by some interest in a community topic: A GMC compiled […] More

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    Your local Game Maker Community

    If you are not from a country where the predominantly spoken language is English you may prefer to visit an unofficial localised Game Maker forum.  About a year ago I wrote a post listing the membership numbers of various Game Maker websites and I included a section on none-English forums. As that is now a […] More

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    GameCog – Create, Design, Develop, Discuss

    Move over 64Digits, there is a new site in town! GameCOG is a new community website that has been created to provide game developers, designers and enthusiasts, an active environment to create and design, develop and discuss their game ideas and projects. Although it has just had its first public release, it is going strong […] More

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    GMB: New Blogger Matt

    I am pleased to announce that Game Maker Blog has a new team member.  Matt Scorah (aka scoz) is the latest to join the blogging line up and is our first new blogger in six months. Matt is a University student from Australia with an interest in the Game Maker media scene.  He is currently working on […] More

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    April Magazine and Video Launches

    This month should see the release of the first issue of two new Game Maker magazines as well as “an informative Game Maker video show”. The first magazine is Game Maker Venture produced by a team including Joshua Pedroza (Caniac) [apparently he is not involved in the project –  just the hosting of the website], Naseem Usmani […] More

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