August 2009
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Game Maker Competition Statistical Analysis
Why do people hold game making contests? To reward their sites visitors? Partly. But competitions also have the potential to attract new people to a site and boost the number and quality of games on offer. I was asked recently to give my opinion on a contest that an unnamed Game Maker focused site is […] More
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GMGRS Episode #3
The GMGRS is back again with their third episode. This time they are reviewing the puzzle platformer Psycho2 created by SpyDog. Unlike previous episodes where Alec and Drew were on screen for most of the time the majority of this episode is given over to game footage. We will not make a new post for […] More
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Are Game Maker Video Shows the new Magazines?
The publication of a few quality Game Maker magazines over the past few years has lead to many lower-quality short-lived attempts by less experienced community members. This year alone has seen the launch and subsequent demise of KwikLook, Simulator GM, Game Maker Development Insight and GMFreak. Indeed the only magazine launched last year that has released issues […] More
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Game Maker 7 for Mac – Third Beta (public)
The third beta version of Game Maker 7 for Mac has been released. Unlike the first and second versions which were distributed to a closed group of testers the third is available to everyone. Access to the Game Maker 7 for Mac third beta (27.2MB) can be gained via the mantis bug tracker where bug reports […] More
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Mark Overmars and Jacob Habgood to author intermediate-level Game Maker book
Game Maker founder Mark Overmars and Sumo Digital’s Dr Jacob Habgood, co-authors of the successful Game Maker’s Apprentice, are to write a new book focusing on intermediate-level Game Maker programming. Although I don’t have any up-to-date sales figures (if anyone has any please post them in the comments) their first book sold out its original […] More
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Game Maker Game Review Show Episode 2
Coffee‘s Senseless War is the game reviewed in the second Game Maker Game Review show. Sadly there is no audio from the game in the review. Not sure if it is as good as the first episode but there is much more focus on the chosen game. See also: First episode More
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Official (kinda): No Softwrap in Game Maker 8
There has been a lot of vocal opposition to the use of the Softwrap DRM protection of Game Maker 7. Users have reported that the software would un-register itself, that they had problems installing Game Maker on secondary computers and of problems receiving support almost from day one – over two years ago. Last month we […] More
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YoYoGames.com was down for more than 24 hours
All websites occasionally suffer from a small amount of downtime YoYo Games being no exception. However earlier this weekend YoYoGames.com was unavailable to access for more than a day. The affected areas were the main site, wiki, glog and forum – the Game Maker Community (GMC) was unaffected as it is hosted elsewhere. The site now […] More
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2BeeGames back with $15,000 competition
Just a month after the conclusion of their first contest 2BeeGames are holding a second independent game competition which is open to creations made using any development tool. Two Game Maker games made the final of 2BeeGames’ first contest with Bumps winning $2,500 for achieving second place in the community-favourite vote. $10,000 and a publishing deal on […] More
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Axioms: Second GameJolt Contest
Indie gaming website GameJolt [review] have announced details of their second game creation competition. As with their previous contest entrants are not confined to using the Game Maker development platform. The theme, which has obviously had some thought put into it, can be chosen from one of 10 Axioms decided by the site with the deadline […] More