October 2010
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Community Links: YYG Review Competition, Mark on Publishing, GMCG 2.0
The winner of YoYo Games SkyDiver II review competition has been announced. Member LifeSketcher has a 32GB iPod Touch and a $50 iTunes voucher to look forward to. In the post on the YoYo Games blog Kirsty also promised that news about the next release (‘not Mini Madness‘?) and more information about publishing games will […] More
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YoYo Games set to go head to head with GameSalad
With the recent long anticipated announcement that YoYo Games will enter into revenue sharing deals with Game Maker users to publish some of their best creations they have positioned themselves against GameSalad. GameSalad, an iOS only development tool, has been around since 2008 and over 700 created games are currently available in the App Store. They very […] More
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Game Review – Super Crate Box (Vlambeer)
Vlambeer‘s first release is more frenetic than a headless chicken on steroids. If you enjoy action-packed platforming and generally kicking arse, you won’t want to stop playing this piece of pixel perfection. More
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First official details of YoYo Games Publishing Process
Following the release of SkyDiver II on iOS YoYo Games will shortly make available a ‘Base Line Spec’ detailing the requirements of Game Maker games for them to publish in the iTunes store and elsewhere. In a wiki article Sandy provided an outline of the publishing process and revealed the revenue share model. We will […] More
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Community Links: Indie Kombat, YoYo t-shirt, SkyDiver II pre iOS4
Two Game Maker games are up against each other in Indie Kombat. Banov and Andrew Brophy will compete in this months version of the competition which describes itself as the ‘ultimate bare knuckle game development arena’. Both Game Makers are working on games which are mash-ups of their opponents’ prior creations. The winner is decided […] More
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Game Review – The Machine (Maarten Baert)
The Machine‘s uninspiring title doesn’t do this fantastic physics playground enough justice. Anybody looking for some gravitationally-bound fun and even experimentation will enjoy delving into this world full of beams, ropes and springs. More
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YoYo Games App Store Renames, Game submission nearly open
A couple of months back we reported that YoYo Games’ newly created marketplace, which they named the YoYo App Store, might have to change its name because “App Store” is a registered trademark of Apple. It appears this might have been the case as the online marketplace has now been renamed to the “YoYo Game […] More
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100,000 games at YoYoGames.com
One hundred thousand games have now been uploaded to YoYoGames.com The figure was reached just a few minutes ago. Games on the site have been played more than 14 million times and this figure excludes games replayed after they have been downloaded. Interestingly ‘only’ 55,340 games appear when browsing the site – that’s a lot […] More
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Book Review: The Game Maker’s Companion by Jacob Habgood et al.
The Game Maker’s Companion (links) is the long awaited sequel to the best selling book introducing Game Maker game development, The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners. Game Maker creator Mark Overmars is not a co-author of this book but Habgood, a former professional game developer and now senior lecturer of Game Development at […] More
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SkyDiver Mach II available in the Apple App Store
Game Maker creation SkyDiver Mach II is available to purchase in the Apple App Store. The game, with YoYo Games branding on the loading screen only, is on sale at $0.99. I haven’t personally tested the game but am told it runs fine on iOS 4 and on iOS 3.2 on iPad (problems with the […] More
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Rekame Mag – Issue 3, Autumn 2010
Andrew McCluskey has released the third issue of Rekame Mag. The issue is the first since June and the first to be published whilst Andrew has been working at YoYo Games. Much of the content was discussed in GMTalk 4 as was the reason for the long gap between issues. View Rekame Mag 3 (8.3MB […] More
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IndiePub Interview with Dustforce Creators
We’ve been trying to arrange to get some questions answered by Woodley Nye and Lexie Dostal, creators of Dustforce. In the meantime here is a short video interview they gave to IndiePub games after being announced as winners of the $100,000 grand prize. More