Wanted! Your 2010 Game Maker Predictions
January 5th, 2010 by Philip Gamble
| Categories: Blog news, Game Maker Development
Which of the following will have occurred by the end of 2010?
- A Game Maker game will be shown working on a portable gaming device (62%, 126 Votes)
- YoYo Games reduce their annual loss (42%, 84 Votes)
- Game creators will be able to play their Game Maker games on a portable gaming device (39%, 79 Votes)
- YoYo Games' Instant Play can be used on sites other than YoYoGames.com (39%, 78 Votes)
- YoYo Games introduce a method of developer compensation (e.g. ad-revenue share, able to sell games) (35%, 70 Votes)
- An official Game Maker IDE for Linux and/or Mac is released (35%, 70 Votes)
- There is at least one regular decent quality Game Maker magazine for much of the year (21%, 42 Votes)
Total Voters: 202
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Photo: …to the future by Flickr user monterd. (cc)
I almost voted everything except the Magazine thing…
Then I found out, there’s a max of one vote…
Woop, FIRST vote…
Same :/.
I voted for portable device, but i hope the annual loss happens for YoYO and Game Maker’s sake.
Sorry about that, when I added the last poll option it decided to reset to only allowing one vote. Fixed.
@Philip, but now my vote has been casted
Is there a way I can reset mine?
Voted for 1st, 4th and 7th. Everything else is not exactly certain – and I’ve learnt not to trust YoYo or any GM-related media.
@Bas Bloem I just updated your votes based on what you said in the first post.
1, 3, 4, 6, 7.
1 because the competition makes this intention seem fairly accurate. YYG may be wanting to enter this market also because it would be a good source of revenue
3 because it would increase the user friendliness towards the Google Ads and attract more users
4 because of 1 and 3
6 because I believe the Mac port project will be revived and completed. Linux – doubt it
7 to attract more people to use YYG as a host.
How exactly does one of the options have a negative vote percentage?
@Manyquestions
There is some kind of glitch in the plugin – am not sure how this happened as it was fine a little earlier. The votes are being recorded okay though and the bars drawn to the correct proportions.
Edit: I modified the plugin, it should be fixed now.
Later Edit: My modification had an unexpected consequence. I will attempt a fix later, for now you will just have to put up with it. Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention though.
@Philip Gamble
Can you modify my vote to the same as ‘Bas’? (all but thr mag one?)
Done
Thanks Phil.
Pretty much anything Sandy promised, you can bet won’t happen. Anything else is fair game.
I’m hoping “YoYo Games introduce a method of developer compensation”. That would be great for users, but I don’t think it will help them “YoYo Games reduce their annual loss”. But I voted both, so here’s hoping =)
I feel pretty cynical after voting. I only voted for “shown on a portable” and “instant play on other sites”.
Awesome photo should be attributed to the photographer.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monterd/
As much as I feel that YoYoGames promises a lot, I really think that they can have hand-held capabilities by the end of the year. Also, I want that too.
A version of game maker for Linux would be awesome!! I would switch right away, because i don’t like Windows (i hate it) and the only reason why i still use it is because of Game Maker.
I feel bad for saying this, but I really don’t think anything is going to happen. I voted for “shown on portable” because I just can’t see any of the other things happening. They haven’t really done anything, have they? Practically everything gets delayed, canceled or ignored. It’s pretty sad.
I don’t remember my vote from last year, so I’m going to post a reply stating I checked the first (some game on portable device) and last (InstantPlay on other sites) option… done.
I expect there will be great pressure to port a competition five game to a portable device. InstantPlay on other sites is easy to do and there is a huge demand for this functionality from the community (look at all presented alternatives to InstantPlay). I expect that reducing loss, introducing revenue sharing and porting to other platforms and devices for all games will be hard to achieve for YoYo Games.
I doubt a Linux IDE will come out soon, but when it does it will be evtremely awesome
Another thing I would like to see is much improved 3d or integrated 3d like U3d or OGRE.