November 2010
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The Business case for App Publishing
YoYo Games’ move into publishing has obviously been planned for a long time given the company has needed to raise investment to fund their expansion. With the Apple App Store having opened in June 2008, after YoYo Games was founded, their initial monetization model must have been adapted. Whether not YoYo realistically thought they would sell many PC […] More
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Game Review – Project Aurora: Moonrise (Woflix Entertainment)
Stop. Before you continue reading, start downloading from the contest site. At 110MB, it takes a while to download, but it’s well worth it. There are quite a few Game Maker games which use the built-in 3D functions, but not many, in fact almost none, that manage to pull it off with the elegance and style that […] More
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Mid-week Community Links
Grabeorama has conducted a quick analysis on the number of plays-per-game at YoYoGames.com Quote Unquote is a new blog covering Indie Game Developers one quote at a time. About a month back I made a post about this site on my personal blog. Changes stemming from this will be introduced soon. More
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This is Indie – Issue 4
The fourth issue of the high-gloss This is Indie magazine has been released. It’s not exactly up-to-date given that the first article mentions that former GMC administrator KC LC stood down from her position. In August. The second news piece is on Dustforce‘s $100,000 success in the IndiePub Games contest. There is very little focus […] More
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YoYo Games Resource Sharing: Dismal
There have been a number of comments in reply to YoYo’s post about GameSpark, in which they endorse the video tutorials and game resource store on offer, critical of YoYo’s decision to support the third-party commercial store. When Mark Overmars announced that he was partnering with YoYo Games for the future development of Game Maker one of […] More
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iOS Game Review – They Need to be Fed (Jesse Venbrux)
The title of the game says it all. They Need to be Fed by Jesse Venbrux is an interesting physics based platform game where you need to feed “insanely cute monsters”. Although, it’s a little more then just that. You control a little character and lead him into the monsters’ mouths. To do that, you must jump […] More
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GameSpark Game Maker Video Courses
A website offering step-by-step Game Maker video courses has launched. GameSpark has been developed by a company which runs game design and robotics camps so the people behind the site have experience teaching game design. The site claims to offer “Everything you need to make a game” and along with the teaching side also has […] More
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They Need to be Fed on iOS, Game Center integration, Host-a Revamp
Jesse Venbrux’s They Need to be Fed is now available on iPhone and iPad. There iswas a pricing discrepancy between the YoYo Game Store which states the iPad version is priced at $1.99 and iTunes which charges $0.99, the same as for the iPhone version. Jesse recently spent a couple of weeks at YoYo Games […] More
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Game Maker: A solution to growing fragmentation of the mobile games sector?
It appears that YoYo Games are trying to encourage mobile application developers to switch to using Game Maker by promising cross-platform support. Android applications are written in Java, whilst Apps for the iPhone and iPad must be written using C, C++ or Objective-C. With the recent release of Windows 7 Mobile increasing amounts of development […] More
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Game Based Community Links and Game Maker Type Casting
Banov last week won his Indie Kombat match by default when his competitor, Andrew Brophy, failed to complete his game on time. Vertigo Gaming plan to work on a “slower paced strategy/sim” game which they hope to publish on iPad through YoYo Games in 2011. Writing in the comments on his personal blog Mike Dailly […] More
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Game Review – Crystal Wave (Johnny B.)
Crystal Wave is a straightforward but deliciously well-balanced shoot-’em-up which should satisfy anyone fortunate enough not to be using a laptop mousepad. Oh, and it’s got a retro vibe to it. More
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Dundee App Development Conference: Russell Kay’s Talk
Speaking at the App Development Conference in Dundee Russell Kay presented YoYo Games’ Game Maker software as an answer to the growing fragmentation of the mobile industry. We have already seen the first two Game Maker games appear in the iTunes App Store, with PSP and Android expected to follow shortly. Russell said today that […] More
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