April 2010
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Tutorial – Stylistic Fake 3D
A technique I frequently use in games is fake 3D. This may just be seen as a ploy for attention – “why use fake 3D when Game Maker has REAL 3D built-in right off the bat?” Well, there are advantages to it. It’s much easier to manipulate object depth manually. You can draw something ontop […] More
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Current thinking on Game Maker for Nintendo DS and iPhone
With the development of a runner enabling Game Maker games to run on the PSP a frequently heard question is “why not for Nintendo DS? (or DSi)”. We have covered this issue before – in short the DSi is less powerful but Mike Dailly has now provided some more information on the decision taken by […] More
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Recently Featured: Assault on Planet Equidon, Ruthless Quest Online, Descent
The first in our regular look at games which have recently received a feature at YoYo Games. Some of these are new releases that are quickly identified as high enough quality to deserve the accolade whilst others may have been available on the site for months or even years before being discovered by a moderator who chose […] More
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PSP Game Maker Games Playable on PlayStation 3
As reported earlier on Game Maker Blog, the latest employee of YoYo Games, Mike Dailly, was publically announced earlier today. In the glog entry for this announcement, a link was provided to Dailly’s personal blog. Not so long ago, he made a blog entry there about his position (“Head of Development”), amongst other things. One […] More
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Former DMA employees to invade YoYo’s new office
Perhaps the worst kept secret at YoYo Games over the last half year is that they planned to open an office in Dundee. The first official announcement of the move came today with Sandy announcing that the currently none-existent YoYo Games HQ will move to Dundee “in the next few weeks”. Former DMA employee Mike […] More
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GMIndie Podcast
Yesterday was certainly a popular day for Game Maker media releases. As well as the two magazines GMIndie published a pretty good podcast discussing Game Maker issues. The show is just over an hour long and features contributors Brian Fetcher, Kevin, Jonathan Miller, Landon Podbielski and Bret Hudson discussing various game maker community topics. Issues […] More
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New Magazine: Nikc-Nack
Half an hour or so before the release of Overbyte Issue 3 a new Game Maker magazine chose an unfortunate time to launch their first issue (~1MB pdf link). Nikc-Nack’s Magazine is a Nikc-Nack Games Project, made to bring you the latest Game Maker news, scoops and reviews! The magazine features three game reviews, a […] More
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Overbyte Magazine Issue 3
Overbyte, the independent games magazine your mother would be ashamed of, has released its third, less silly, issue. In the main articles Jack Brockley takes a look at eight of the entries in YoYo Games’ fifth competition while Andrew McCluskey delivers some design tips you can use to give your game a more professional appearance. […] More
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YYG Instant Play now Fx3.6 & GM8 Compatible
After several months of community impatience (Game Maker 8 is four months old tomorrow, Firefox 3.6 several months itself), YoYo Games has finally updated their Instant Play engine to work for both. Internet Explorer should have its IP engine for Game Maker 8 up and running tomorrow, as reported by Sandy on the glog. However, […] More
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GMIndie Plan 250-page Game Maker eBook
GMIndie are working on an ambitious project to create a series of Game Maker eBooks – the first which will provide an introduction to the software scheduled for release in July 2010. The idea for a comprehensive tutorial series reminds me of Carl Gustafsson’s Beginners Guide to Game Maker Programming, a long unofficial introduction to […] More
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YoYo Games Virus Scanner Defective
As a quick warning, uploading games on YoYo Games currently appears to present you with the Virus Scanner account telling you (via the usual private message as well as an email notification) that your game has been deleted and an administrator informed due to a “virus having been found”. This has been affecting uploads for […] More
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