November 2009

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    in Competition

    Game Maker strong in 2BeeGames contest

    All four Game Maker games in the final of the 2BeeGames contest (total prize fund $15,000) have made it past the first elimination stage.  The three finalists that received the smallest number of votes in a public poll were removed from the running and the same will happen in the next round. Currently Vertigo Games’s Kablooey! is […] More

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    in Game Maker 8

    Game Maker 8: Second Release Candidate

    Update: The full version of Game Maker 8 has been released. A second Game Maker 8 release candidate has been made available for testing by YoYo Games. As of yet there has not been an official announcement that this is available but it can be downloaded here (5.5MB .exe). It is now less certain that […] More

  • 19 Comments

    in Development, GameMaker Development

    Ten Years of Game Maker 1999-2009

    It is 10 years to the day since Mark Overmars released the first public version of Game Maker, 1.1.  Since then Game Maker has undergone huge changes with the addition of Game Maker Language scripting, the introduction of many more drag and drop icons and functions, 3D, particles and extensions. The userbase has grown from […] More

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    in Competition

    Time Travel Competition

    FredFredrickson’s Reflect Games is holding a time-travel themed game making contest. Games can involve time travel, take place at an alternate time in the past or future, include a time machine or anything else related to time-travel. First prize is $30 of games on Steam, second place gets $10 of games and the third placed […] More

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    in Game Maker 8

    Which of these Game Maker 8 logos do you prefer?

    I stumbled across four entries submitted to the Game Maker 8 logo contest uploaded to the Flickr account of Sandy Duncan.  Presumably these have made the final.  The competition rules stated that there would be five runners-up so perhaps the winning entry is absent. Click on the thumbnails below to view the logos. [nggallery id=4] [poll […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    Logo competition finalists have been chosen

    Five finalists have been selected in the competition to design a new logo for Game Maker earning themselves a free copy of Game Maker 8 Pro. In response to an increasing level of criticism directed towards YoYo Games by Game Maker users frustrated at the lack of announcements regarding the current state of the competition, Beneibe posted a […] More

  • 12 Comments

    in YoYo Games

    10 Million Games Played at YoYoGames.com

    The 41,000+ games uploaded at YoYoGames.com have now been played over 10,000,000 times in total. Although this is a nice milestone figure for the site to reach the number of game plays per day has not increased over the past year. The game with the most plays by far remains sakisa‘s Crimelife 2 which has […] More

  • 9 Comments

    in GameMaker Media

    GMLive – Third Show Topics

    This Saturday GMLive will broadcast their third live global Game Maker radio discussion. Topics that will be talked about include GameJolt’s latest contest, the return of Prodigygm magazine as Tailware Times, Sandy’s recent appearance at the Casual Games Forum in London and the Halloween episode of Game Maker TV. No-one from the Game Maker Community […] More

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    in Uncategorized

    Game Review – Circum Skull

    Sometimes, it’s the simplest of games that are the most addictive. David Scatliffe’s “Mouse No. Probably A Rat” was an example of this (see my last review). So is this arcade offering – Jack Brockley’s “Circum Skull”, which I noticed in the mid-week community links posted just before this review (stuck for games to review […] More

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