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    Micropayments on YoYo Games?

    At today’s Casual Games Forum in London YoYo Games Ltd CEO Sandy Duncan spoke of the merits of micropayments. Micropayments (wiki article) are transactions with a unusually small monetary value often used to unlock extra features in games. In 2007 90% of Habbo Hotel’s $60M+ revenue came from the sale of virtual goods. I didn’t buy a […] More

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    Game Maker TV Episode 7

    The seventh full episode of Game Maker TV has today been released. Cobwebs and a pumpkin have invaded Dan’s garage as the Halloween special episode takes a look at the Top Five horror games made in Game Maker and reviews a Zombie game as well as providing a run down of community news. Regarding a […] More

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    Game Review – Mouse No. Probably A Rat

    “Mouse No. Probably A Rat” is the latest game by David Scatliffe, a Game Maker user beginning to enter the spotlight for his addictive, retro-styled arcade games. Created in under three hours for a competition on popular site The Poppenkast, it is a game inspired by “Squid Yes! Not So Octopus!” – and it shows. […] More

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    Prodigy GM Magazine Rises From The Dead

    Formerly known as “Prodigy Game Magazine“, Nathan Hurde has released a new issue of his magazine (direct pdf link). Last released in June, a new issue (issue 5) was finally released here at the end of October. The new title of the magazine is now “Tailware Times”. The magazine opened with a note from Nathan […] More

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    Game Maker 8 Logo Contest Entry Deadline

    28 days ago, Sandy Duncan announced that he would be holding a competition to see who could make the best new logo for GM8. Earlier today, he announced that the time for submitting your entries has now come to a close. The winners(s) will be picked out of the 500+ submissions that were entered by […] More

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    YoYo Games undergoing new round of funding

    YoYo Games Ltd are currently trying to raise new investment in the company. We recently posted documents which showed that in the two years to 31st October 2008 YoYo Games lost more than £420,000 (~$680,000 USD).  Speaking on this weekend’s GMLive host Joshua Pedroza said that although he is “not allowed to say much about this” […] More

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    Game Maker Station offers “merge” to 64Digits

    Earlier today the owner of Game Maker Station, Frederick Watson, sent an e-mail to 64Digits administrator Arcalyth requesting a “merge” with the still popular Game Maker community. Frederick presents the proposed merge as a rare and lucky opportunity for the often-troubled site which has over 15,000 registered accounts. “The only thing keeping 64 Digits alive […] More

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    GMLive – Second Show Topics

    GMLive’s second live Game Maker radio discussion takes place this Saturday at 11am EDT (4pm BST in the UK, 5pm Western Europe). Hosting will be Joshua Pedroza and Robin Monks with guests including Dan Eggers (from Game Maker TV) and a representative for the Game Maker Community Game. Topics up for discussion include the absence […] More

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    GMC Moderator is New GM-Resources owner

    The Game Maker Community moderator and owner of GMLScripts.com, xot, is to take over GM-Resources.com Following the announcement that the site was up for sale a number of Game Maker groups including GMVision and Game Maker Station expressed an interest in purchasing the site. More

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    Game Review – Death Worm

    If there was ever an example of how successful Game Maker games can be, JTR’s “Death Worm” would probably be it. It took the indie gaming scene by storm when it was released nearly three years ago, and has been featured in pretty much every PC gaming magazine in existence (I’m a regular reader of […] More

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    We Love Game Design

    Four students in their third year of a Digital Games degree at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden have undertaken an ambitious task to create a game every two days in a four week period. About ten mini-games have already been created including Two Minutes to Midnight, where your typing skills are put to the test […] More

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