June 2010

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    in GMC

    GMC Down for Upgrade

    The Official Game Maker Community is currently offline whilst the forum software is upgraded. The upgrade had been scheduled to begin on Tuesday 15th June but started about an hour ago. Russell Kay has stated that the GMC will be down for “2-3 days” during the upgrade but no reason has been given as to […] More

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    Preview the upgraded GMC

    The Official Game Maker Community is expected to be upgraded to a recent version of the Invision Power Board software next week. You can preview the new software and template at http://testgmc.yoyogames.com/.   As well as the new design there are also features adding the ability to connect a Facebook or Twitter account to your […] More

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    in Uncategorized

    NAL launches Rekame Mag

    Andrew McCluskey starts his Rekame Mag (Game Maker spelt-backwards) with a good summary of publications past and present and outlines his plans for a “fun” magazine rather than one that will stick to a stringent release schedule. Once you make it past the red on blue cover the content consists of four game reviews, an […] More

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    in Development

    Game Maker for Mac out “by July”

    In a post on the YoYo Games blog Sandy has written that a final release candidate of Game Maker 7 for Mac should be out in the next fortnight. After a week of testing it is then hoped that a final general release version will be made available by July. Game Maker for Mac has […] More

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    in Education

    AMD fund $77,000 Game Maker-based education programme

    Processor developer AMD is funding Activate!, an interactive website targeted at enabling children aged 13-15 to easily design and program video games, through a $77,000 grant from its foundation. The primary tool used in the scheme is YoYo Games’ Game Maker software however it does not appear that YoYo Games are involved in the scheme. “The […] More

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    in Community Links

    Mid-week Community Links

    Following the recent addition of 2TB of extra disk space to the YoYo Games servers some community members reported experienceing problems with Instant Play on certain games.  Russell Kay rolled the server back to its previous configuration which is “dangerously low on disk space“.  If you can’t get games to work using Instant Play the […] More

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