December 2009
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2009: Game Maker Year in Numbers
$2.20 – average amount paid by purchasers of the commercial game maker game Immortal Defense in a recent “pay what you like” sale. 5 – number of activations allowed by the Softwrap DRM for Game Maker 8 6 – Live Game Maker discussion radio programmes hosted by GMLive 8.0 – latest version of Game Maker to be […] More
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Which Handheld Devices will Game Maker games appear on?
With the announcement of Competition 5, many people are probably curious about Game Maker coming to a portable device. But which one? With the diverse specifications for each device, its hard to tell which portable system will have the best chance of supporting Game Maker. Lets take a deeper look into each of the popular […] More
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Game Maker HandHeld Game Competition – What does this mean?
YoYo Games have announced their fifth Game Maker competition with $1750 of cash prizes. The theme, “Design A HandHeld Game“, is bound to reignite speculation of Game Maker games running on such devices in the future. A full list of game limitations are listed at the glog, the main limitations being a maximum 480 x […] More
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2009: Game Maker Media
Magazines Unlike 2008, which saw the launch of three decent multi-issue magazines, 2009 has been a quiet year for Game Maker publications. Indeed no single magazine has released more than three issues in the past 12 months and the list of all releases is quite short: Prodigy GM 3 Simulation GM 1 GMFreak Simulation GM […] More
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2009: Most popular GameMaker Blog Articles
Five most read articles in 2009: For a time in 2007 YoYo Games were hosting a Game Maker 7 Pro crack in their resources section. Despite being notified of its existence it remained online for at least a month. Scirra’s Construct is an open source free game development tool. In January I spoke with one of the people […] More
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GMIndie Issue 2
The second issue of GMIndie has been released (direct pdf link). The design has been completely transformed away from the mysterious two column format used in the first issue and the news section has been scrapped. Included are short reviews of a couple of snowy themed games, an interview with GMC user foxinabox and a […] More
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Game Review – Kick Santa In The Nuts (Krakko)
To capitalise on the festive cheer, I decided to review a game about Christmas or holiday celebrated around the same period. I couldn’t find any truly neutral holiday games, so I had to stick with Christmas. So, of all the brilliant Christmassy games out there (Daniel Remar’s Garden Gnome Carnage springs to mind), why did […] More
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20k Downloads, Game Maker 8 Performance, Immortal Defense Sale, In-game Achievements,…
In the first 24 hours since Game Maker 8 became available it was downloaded over 20,000 times. This is about 5 times the normal number of Game Maker downloads seen in a day. Various benchmarks have been created by Game Maker users to compare the performance of versions 7 and 8. RinkuHero wrote “I don’t think […] More
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Game Maker 8.0 Released
GameMaker Studio and GameMaker Studio 2 have since been released and GameMaker 8.0 discontinued. YoYo Games have today released version 8 of Game Maker. The interface remains the same as in previous versions but there have been a number of improvements with completely rewritten Sprite and Script editors and some new features. This is the […] More
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The Game Maker 8 Upgrade Process
Gone is the nasty grey upgrade nag screen of Game Maker 7 and in its place is the colourful Game Maker 8 launch message. The purpose is still the same though, to encourage Game Maker users to part with $25 for the full, upgraded, Pro version of the software. More
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Game Maker TV “Cancelled”
Dan Eggers’ Game Maker TV, which released its first video back in 2007, has cancelled work on producing future episodes of the online video show. Earlier in the week their hosting account expired and now the cancellation has been made official – put down to “a loss of interest” by the shows creators Brad (Revel) […] More
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GMIndie Magazine Releases First Issue
We haven’t seen as many magazine launches, or indeed magazine issues at all, this year compared to 2008. Brian Fetcher’s GMIndie left it late in the year to release with their first issue (direct pdf link) coming out yesterday. The magazine, which claims it will come out weekly, has a strange layout. Two columns is simple […] More
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