August 2010
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GMIndie and GMVision Game Maker Survey: Poorly Implemented
GMIndie and GMVision have launched ‘Game Maker Survey 2010’ a collection of 60 questions designed to ask about your usage of Game Maker and collect opinions on various aspects of Game Maker. I waited a couple of days after I first saw (and started but did not finish) the survey to see if others shared […] More
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YoYo Promise more Transparent Judging for their 6th Competition
Russell Kay has promised that the judging process for YoYo Games sixth competition, which closes Tuesday, will be more transparent than it has been in their previous contests. The discovery themed competition has $1,750 of cash prizes up for grabs for the games YoYo Games deem to be the best. Some Game Maker users had […] More
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Mid-week Community Links
Jonatan Söderström aka cactus had his website featured in Time.com’s 50 greatest websites of 2010. Whilst the list may be a bit premature being published being published with four more months to go it is an impressive achievement as it is listed alongside the well known Kongregate and Newgrounds and well known sites from other […] More
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KC LC retires from the GMC
After being inactive for almost 2 weeks on the GMC, KC LC quietly backed down from her Administrative position on the board. No official announcement has been made which is leaving many people confused, but her own Profile reads “Retired Staff” under Group where it previously labeled her as Administrator. Currently, there hasn’t been any […] More
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How to get the most out of Game Maker Affiliation
If you run a website relating to Game Maker one of the ways you can promote it on other similar websites is through the Game Maker Affiliation programme. Here are five tips to help you get the most out of the system which has now delivered over 26 million impressions. Check the performance of your […] More
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YoYo Games an Industry Partner at AppJam 2010
Dundee College, along with key project and other industry partners (including YoYo Games), are holding a 3 day International App Development Conference. The event will run from the 8th to 10th November 2010 in Dundee, Scotland. The Conference: If you are already an app developer, or someone who is looking to get into app development, […] More
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Immortal Defense Pay What You Want Sale – Results so far
Paul Eres has posted in the Indie Gamer forums showing the effects so far of allowing purchasers of Immortal Defense to set their own price for the tower defence game. The Game Maker game, released just over 3 years ago, attracted 259 sales in the first 17 days of the offer at an average price […] More
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GMC Urges YoYoGames.com Stay-away
Two days ago former Game Maker Community administrator Smarty posted a GMC topic urging anyone who is not confident with their system’s security settings to stay away from yoyogames.com. Over the past few days visitors to the site have reported virus infections on their Windows machines caused by an exploit in the Acrobat PDF reader […] More
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Official YoYo Games Twitter Account Launched
YoYo Games are finally on Twitter. You can follow them at @YoYoGameMaker. And if you aren’t yet following Game Maker Blog(!) then you can do that here: @GameMakerBlog Several months back there was a fake YoYo Games twitter account which spouted ridiculous nonsense for a couple of weeks before it was closed down. More
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Weekend Community Links
On Friday evening I discovered that YoYo Games has a page on Encyclopedia Dramatica. Mentioned are the rating system, the “glog” and the original choice of Game Maker 8 logo. There are also a couple of quotes by site users as well as a “Sandy Duncan logic” section. Last week I started writing a review of […] More
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Game Maker Entries in Second GameJolt Jam
Last weekend the GameJolt indie gaming community held their second Game Jam – the majority of submitted games were made in Game Maker. The highest rated game is currently Chawp! created by Ted Lauterbach and Brian Rodriguez with sounds from Matt Scorah and Ashley Gwinnell. In this arcade game “made over the course of 4 […] More
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“App Store” is a Registered Trademark of Apple Inc
Earlier today YoYo Games announced the launch of the “YoYo Games App Store” from which Game Maker 7 for Mac can be downloaded. However “App Store” has been registered as a trademark by Apple in the EU. In the United States the mark’s current status is listed as “An opposition is now pending at the […] More
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