July 2010
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Game Maker Time Magazine
Game Maker Community member beeproductions has released a “first issue demo” of a magazine titled Game Maker Time (view PDF). Explaining the reason for deciding to launch another Game Maker magazine beeproductions writes: “After reading other issues released by other GMC members I started to realize that we actually need a good issue. Not 20 […] More
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This Is Indie – Issue Two
Two months after the launch of This Is Indie Evan McClane has released the second issue of his Indie Gaming Magazine. Download 5.8MB PDF (left click only) The PDF opens in an annoyingly secured format and tries to take over my screen but by the time I have scrolled through a couple of pages the […] More
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in Books
Game Maker’s Companion set for August Release, Game Maker Cookbook Cancelled
A couple of brief updates regarding Game Maker books that are currently being written. Jacob Habgood’s Game Maker’s Companion [Amazon: $26.39 US|£23.62 UK], follow up to his successful Game Maker’s Apprentice book co-authored with Mark Overmars, is now scheduled to be released next month. Release was originally planed for April 2010 but that deadline has obviously been […] More
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Tailware Video Podcast – Not that bad!
Nathan Hurde is joined by Dan Moulton, Tim Van Norde and Roland in D3D Laughs and Tears the first TailWare-GMHV video podcast. [part 1 | part 2] A global group of Game Maker users, featuring krejic‘s rather magnificent Dutch accent gather to list the reasons why they like Game Maker and talk a bit about […] More
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GMClan at Polish Game Developers Convention 2010
This weekend GMClan were present at the Zjazd Twórców Gier 2010 game developers convention in Gdansk, Poland. The first unofficial meet-up of GMClan members was held as a PSP running a Game Maker game was demonstrated and a pile of YoYo Games yoyos were given away. Hopefully we will be able to bring you a […] More
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in Games
Recently Featured: Globules, Sync Simple and The Ultra Mission
Our latest look at games that have recently been featured at YoYoGames.com. The three games looked at today, Globules, Sync Simple and The Ultra Mission are all very different and all enjoyable. Globules by True Valhalla Globules is a strategy tower defence style game which sets two players against each other as they build colonies in […] More
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in Competition
Fifth GameJolt Contest Results
The winning games have been chosen in GameJolt’s Indie Game Demake contest. The third placed game, Saucelifter 8-Bit was written in a version of the Blitz game creation tool. In second place is a Game Maker demake of Seiklus by Legendary Creations. The winning game was a flash demake of of the classic indie shooter […] More
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YoYo Games fixes Instant Play for FireFox
Almost 3 months since the initial release of Instant Play for FireFox 3.6, YoYo Games have finally released a fix. A fix was released (by me) exactly 2 months ago at the Game Maker Community which leaves you wondering why it took a company like YoYo Games an additional 2 months to discover and fix […] More
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Andrew McCluskey Joins YoYo Games
Kirsty Scott has officially announced Andrew McCluskey, better known to some as NAL, as the latest member of the YoYo Games team. Andrew started working for YoYo Games last week and made the long trip up to Dundee at the weekend. I’ve known Andrew for a relatively short period of my time in the Game […] More
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YoYo Games yoyos actually exist!
I’m told there are 500 of them in a box in Dundee. More
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Game Maker for PSP to be shown at Polish Game Developers Convention
Our friends at the Polish Game Maker Community will be demonstrating a PSP running Chad Chisholm’s Skydiver Mach II in a game developers conference being held at Gdansk University on Sunday. Piotr Gnys from GMClan told Game Maker Blog that the game runs “really smooth” and at a stable speed. A video will be available […] More
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Mid-week Community Links
The braingale team are holding a parody games contest which runs until September 10th. The prizes up for grabs are Psychonauts and a t-shirt. The contest is not just restricted to entries made using Game Maker. Google’s App Inventor has been getting quite a bit of press in recent days. In short it enables none-coders […] More
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