December 2010
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Zoom in Game Maker 8.1 Room Editor and 75,000 Solitaire downloads in a day
Mike Dailly has written a post on his personal blog looking back at 2010 and forward to 2011 with regards to Game Maker. In the post he reveals: That YoYo Games’ free solitaire app for iPhone and iPod was downloaded 75,000 times on Christmas day alone That the iOS port was written in less than a […] More
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2010: Most Popular Articles on GameMaker Blog
At the end of each year I normally run through some of the most popular articles on this blog by pageviews. This year I have also included the most commented and most linked to articles on the site – see what memories they bring back! Most viewed With more than twice as many pageviews […] More
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2010: How your predictions fared
Last January we asked readers of this blog for their 2010 Game Maker predictions. 202 of you took part and gave your opinions on a range of matters relating to the future development of Game Maker and YoYo Games. Now the year is nearly up we look back to see which community predictions came to […] More
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Snow New Posts
The site may be a little bare over the next few days, but we’ll be back soon with our reviews of 2010 and a look at the Game Maker year ahead. More
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Game Review – Volatile (Matthew Bowden)
Volatile is a real time strategy game developed by Matthew Bowden in a 48 hour period for the recent Ludum Dare 19. It’s effectively a four way tower defence and attack game which builds on the concept explored in Matthew’s earlier Globules but pits you against 3 opponents all of whom start in corners of a hexagonal gridded […] More
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5 Game Maker Games in IndieGames.com’s Top 10 Indie Games of 2010
Half of the games in IndieGames.com’s Top 10 Indie Games of 2010 have been made using Game Maker. The list, which is cross-platform and contains the well known Minecraft and Super Meat Boy, includes the following Game Maker games: Hydorah by Locomalito Shoot First by teknopants Super Crate Box by Vlambeer Desktop Dungeons by Rodain […] More
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Mid-week Community Links: Game Maker entries in Ludum Dare 19
Flatcade is a new blog from Greg Froning which provides brief features on Game Maker games. A couple of interesting articles on the topic of decompilation. Firstly the reasons why decompilers are written, in the recent Game Maker case it is pretty obvious – to create a method of converting GMKs to run on iPhones […] More
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Work on re-written Game Maker to start in 2011
See YoYoGames.com blog post by Sandy. In the post Sandy also talks about the YoYo Games Store and says that all games published by YoYo so far will also be released on Android in January. Work on Game Maker 8.1 has already begun and more regular updates and bug fixes are promised. More
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Game Maker iOS Decompiler Released
A decompiler has been released which can convert games published by YoYo Games on iOS to editable GMK files. The authors of the Game Maker iOS decompiler are Zach Reedy, who has already created a Game Maker 8 decompiler, and Brad Triebwasser. The release of this decompiler makes it increasingly likely that a successful attempt […] More
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Game Maker running on Android
As was announced by YoYo Games and discussed by both the GameMakerBlog and GMC-users: Game Maker running on Android. In a recent blogpost Mike Dailly shows a video of both Solitaire and Teka Teki running on an Android device. He tells the Android runner is “almost fully functional and is in the final stages of […] More
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End-of-week Community Links
Apple have announced that their Mac App Store will open on January 6th. YoYo Games are not currently selling any desktop games but have said that they would like to do so in future. Following a four day lapse the YoYoGames.com virus scanner appears to be functioning again. There will be quite a backlog to […] More
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Game Maker iOS File Format Cracked
The file format used by YoYo Games to store the data of Game Maker games on iOS devices has been cracked by two Game Maker users. Game Maker games published by YoYo Games to iPhone and iPad consist of two parts – a .ios file containing game information and a generic runner. The YoYo Games specific […] More