July 2009
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Game Maker Game Review Show
A video show that aims to review Game Maker creations has been launched. The first episode of Game Maker Game Review Show features the role-playing game Another Day In the Life of Bob by Polystyrene Man. The review itself is a little over two minutes and comments briefly on just a few aspects of the game. […] More
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Free upgrade to Game Maker 8 if you purchased Game Maker ANYTIME this year
If you purchased Game Maker 7 Pro this year you can have a free upgrade to Game Maker 8 Pro. Writing today on the YoYo Games blog Sandy Duncan said “if you PAID for Game Maker 7 any time in 2009 we will be offering a free upgrade to Game Maker 8″. YoYo Games’ […] More
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Second Game Maker 8 beta Released
The second beta version of Game Maker 8 has been released and can be downloaded from the Mantis bug-tracker. The feature list remains that same as for the first beta, which was released at the start of July, however there have been a number of small additions and some bug fixes and changes which are […] More
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Mike Deroche’s DLLs
We haven’t mentioned any sites offering Game Maker resources for a long time as the vast majority of these projects are mediocre at best and quickly turn into a collection of broken links to a puny amount of files. Once in a while I stumble across a real gem though. Mike Deroche‘s personal site is one […] More
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Competition: Twenty Dollar Explosions
Game Maker community website GameCog.net [site|launch] is holding its third game development competition with a theme of “Explosions”. A total of $40 of prizes are available with $20 being awarded by a team of judges and a further $20 GameMold Choice Award. Games must be submitted by August 29th. More
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YoYo Games set to reveal Monetization plans for Game Developers
It looks like we can expect some exciting announcements from YoYo Games in the near future. “The C++ Runner was not written to make GM faster, but to make it possible to write games on the PC (or Mac) and then run them on OTHER DEVICES. More on that quite soon. … We crave ACCESSIBILITY…giving […] More
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Book Review: Getting Started with Game Maker by Jerry Lee Ford
There are several different ways you could choose to get started with Game Maker. You could download tutorials, fiddle around with examples, buy a book or play around in the IDE. When I started using Game Maker there were no English-language books devoted to introducing the software so I was more limited in my options. […] More
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If one more person tells me about Game Maker on PSP…
From Flickr user ruminatrix. Released under a CreativeCommons license. More
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Save the Planet claims $2,500 from 2BeeGames
A few months ago 2Bee Games launched a $10,000 Game Making Contest in which two Game Maker games, “Bumps” and “Save the Planet”, made the finals. Recently the results of this contest were announced with Edouard Mercure’s Game Maker game Save the Planet coming second in the community vote. “We are proud to annouce [sic] that Auditorium has […] More
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2009 Predictions: 6 months on
At the start of the year we asked readers of this blog to predict whether or not certain events would happen this year. Now six months on how have the predictions fared? 55% of you thought that the mac version of Game Maker would be released. At the end of last year we had just […] More
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Upgrading Game Maker 8: Bye bye Softwrap?
Compare and contrast: Game Maker 7 registration/upgrade instructions: More
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Game Maker 8 Public Beta Released
When on Sunday we revealed that a beta of Game Maker 8 was “not far away” little did we know just how soon it would emerge. Earlier today Mark Overmars posted details of how to obtain a copy of Game Maker 8 beta on the YoYo Games blog. To receive a copy of the beta […] More