January 2010
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Indie Game Mag – Why would anyone buy this?
A serious question this. Indie Game Magazine is a paid for 6-issues-a-year publication, available both online and in print, that features reviews of Indie games and articles aimed at the creators of such titles. The cheapest normal subscription price is $19.95 a year (about $3.30 an issue) with an extra $5 on top if you […] More
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GMLive Show 8 (Finally!) – Listen Again
The first attempt to revive last weeks GMLive resulted in little audible other than a chicken sound effect. Finally a week, 2 hours and 14 minutes after the intended broadcast of their 8th show we heard a run down of three weeks Game Maker news from presenter Joshua Pedroza and producer Jonathan Martin. The show was about 32 minutes in […] More
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eo opens up, GMLive show topics, FlashPunked
The elite invite-only eo game development community have today opened up some sections of their forum to none-members. Webmaster Simon Donkers said that this change was in response to the static impression of the site previously available to the general public. GMLive have released the discussion topics for their rescheduled show this Saturday. Jack Brockley has created […] More
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GMIndie’s World Domination Plan
GMIndie appear not to be content just hosting two live radio shows and releasing a magazine every week. They plan to run a third radio show each week and to launch “GMIndie TV“. Their site lists thirteen twelve members who aim to release “the best game maker entertainment”. I think they mean media. Why can’t […] More
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Game Maker for Mac comes back
After December’s announcement that Game Maker 7 for Mac had been “delayed indefinitely” following the resignation of the the programmer responsible for building the IDE there was speculation on if and when the project would resume. Work has now continued as the original programmer has agreed to continue working on the software alongside a new […] More
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Game Maker entries in GameJolt Contest
The deadline has passed for GameJolt’s Rogue-themed competition. Of the 15 games submitted 7 were created in Game Maker. Other entries were made in Construct, Action Game Maker, Python, C# and Unity3D. Here is a quick look at the Game Maker entries. FKR4 by NAL – The idea here is that the game itself is […] More
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Game Review – Au Sable (amon26)
Artistic Platformers (or plARTformers as I affectionately call them) have become increasingly popular of late. It seems that platform developers are no longer content to stick to the run-and-jump niche that the genre has carved out for itself over the years. We’re beginning to see platformers which focus on story, atmosphere, inventive gameplay mechanics and […] More
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GMTalk Game Maker Podcast
At around 4:30pm GMT today several Game Maker users decided to get together to record a Game Maker podcast named GMTalk (all the other names were taken, you know GMcast, GMlive, GMindie). This evening Andrew McCluskey, Jack Brockley, James Garner and myself took a look at FlashPunk, the entries in the GameJolt rogue-themed game […] More
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GMLive cancelled today, Commercial Game Maker Games
Today’s episode of GMLive’s Game Maker radio show was cancelled 20 minutes into the broadcast. Usual host Joshua Pedroza did not turn up until half an hour before the start of the show and that was after it had been found that the server used to stream the had crashed. When the show did finally commence […] More
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A contest for you graphically clever people – Win Game Maker 8 Pro
Game Maker Blog lacks a favicon and our Twitter avatar is boring! Will you make us a pair? Oh go on, please. There will be a prize. If your design is picked as the winner you can choose from either an upgraded version of Game Maker 8, an Indie game of your choice upto the […] More
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YoYoGames.com Forums Unmoderateable
The YoYoGames.com forums (not to be confused with the official Game Maker Community) has never had a particularly good reputation amongst the more-mature sections of Game Maker users. So when I came across this topic on an issue regarding race I wasn’t all that surprised. What I was disappointed to see though was that the […] More
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in Competition
SigmaNine 24-hour-ish Game Making Contest
Game Maker community SigmaNine.net are holding their first contest. Development time is limited to 24-hours however you have until 11:59 GMT on January 25th to submit your final game which means that work can be split over the week. You are required to keep a log of the time spent on your game for […] More
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