June 2009
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Unofficial fix for YoYo Games’ InstantPlay in Firefox 3.5
Earlier today Mozilla released version 3.5 of Firefox. As I write YoYo Games instant play is not compatible with this version due to the ‘maxVersion‘ value YYG have placed within the plugin. More
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New Book: Getting Started with Game Maker – Author Interview
Evidence of the increasing use of Game Maker in education can be seen by the upcoming release of the third(?) English language book that focuses on the game development platform. Published by Course Technology Jerry Lee Ford’s Getting Started With Game Maker will be coming out next month. Ahead of its launch we caught up […] More
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Public Game Maker 8 Beta “not far away”
Sandy Duncan has revealed that a “GM 8 Beta is not far away….”. The statement was made in a response to a question by Polish student Piotr Gnys on Twitter. A preliminary list of features for Game Maker 8 was only revealed a couple of days ago so the news may come as a […] More
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Second Game Maker Mac beta sent to testers
Marc Simpson, YoYo Games’ “in-house programmer and occasional system admin” has this evening, Saturday 27th, sent the second version of the Game Maker 7 mac beta to those enrolled in the closed beta testing programme. On Sunday 28th Sandy added a message to testers “This is much more stable, though not completely bug free. We […] More
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Game Maker 8 Features Listed: Resource Exporter Included
Mark Overmars has posted on the YoYo Games blog with a preliminary list of features that are planned to be included in Game Maker 8. We already knew about the improved image editor with support for alpha transparency, the new bundled resources that YoYo were seeking artists for and GMB had speculated about an object […] More
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GameJolt Contest Results
The results of the first GameJolt contest have been announced. A total of about 30 games were entered and the majority of entries and all three winners developed in Game Maker. There were however a number of entries made using Construct. The three winning games earn their creators a place in the beta of GameJolt’s ad-revenue […] More
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Game Maker’s C++ Runner is in Testing
Very little is known about the progress of the C++ Game Maker runner re-write which YoYo Games intend to use with Game Maker 8. There is however a version of the runner, created in November last year, that works with (some) Game Maker 7 games which is currently in testing. I know this is probably […] More
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Mark Overmars Game Maker Competition
The University of Utrecht (where Mark Overmars is a professor) is planning to hold a Creative Game Challenge for games made using versions 7 or 8 of Game Maker (version 8 should appear in Autumn 2009). Intended for students in ‘Voortgezet onderwijs’ (age group 13 to 17/18) the theme of the competition will be ‘animals’ […] More
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Kwiklook Blog launches
Following the discontinuation of the magazine, Darren Poole has launched a new blog, as promised: I may very well turn KwikLook into a blog, so if you care, watch out for that. Currently featuring 2 posts and an irritating all-bold font selection, the blog is off to a nice start. Me? At this point, I’m […] More
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Exclusive Videos: Game Maker Mac Development Progressing
A second version of the Game Maker 7 Mac version is due to be sent to those in the closed beta testing scheme soon. Some screenshots of the second beta version and a couple of videos of it in action can be seen below. Sorry in advance for the poor quality of the videos. Higher […] More
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Isometric Game Maker City
The Russian Game Maker Community GM-Rus have created an isometric map of websites devoted to creating games. You can see the world so far at GameLand. If you create an isometric building to represent your site you can add it to the city and get a link back to your Game Maker website. Instructions of how to […] More
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Prodigy Game Magazine: Issue 4
Our good friend Hardcoregamer is back with a new issue of his magazine. The June issue features 19 pages of content (which has been mostly crammed into hard to read text walls in a mediocre layout): sounds promising, doesn’t it? More
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