2009: Game Maker Year in Numbers

December 31st, 2009 by Philip Gamble | Categories: Saturday Stats

$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 released
10 years of Game Maker in November

14 – Game Maker magazine issue releases
$25 – new price of Game Maker introduced in January
45 - votes out of 552 for Albert Zak’s smiley face logo that was (briefly) the Game Maker 8 logo. This was dwarfed by the 500 signatories to a petition demanding its removal in the 18 hours following the announcement.
90% – the proportion of YoYo Games’ income that comes from people upgrading their copy of Game Maker. The remaining 10% comes from advertising on the website.
$10,000 – cash prize awarded to the creators of Climb to the Top of the Castle in a 2BeeGames contest. Five months earlier Save the Planet won $2,500 after coming second in a community poll at the same site.
20,000 - downloads of Game Maker 8 in the first 24 hours since its release
£180,000 – losses recorded by YoYo Games in the year to 31st October 2008.
10,000,000 - milestone number of game plays since launch at YoYoGames.com achieved in November