March 2011

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An exploration of Game Maker Zombie Top Down Shooter Games

Zombies. Just that one word is enough to make most members of the Game Maker community roll their eyes and think of hoards of bland, boring and dull games. Is this just generalisation, are they better than that? Are there unique, fascinating games out there which people are missing, because they can’t get over their […] More

by Mark Smith March 8, 2011, 11:36 pm
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Weekend Community Links

Mornez has created a website highlighting some of the best games from YoYoGames.com. The chosen games are divided between various categories including horror, action, retro, racing and sports. The Rocket Pack HTML5 game engine which is designed for professional game developers and not yet publicly available has been bought by Disney for a figure in […] More

by Mark Smith March 6, 2011, 9:21 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: Game Maker 8.1 and beyond

In this section: Game Maker 8.1, C++ Runner, Game Maker Mac, Game Maker Linux?, Game Maker 9?, Bug reports, Future of YoYo Games The Software Russell is working on including in Game Maker 8.1 something that supports distributing games. I wouldn’t call it DRM in the strictest sense but you can’t just put the games […] More

by Mark Smith March 5, 2011, 10:18 am
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Russell Kay at Game Developers Conference

Look who’s been using the “YouTube for games” line this week. Only Russell Kay at GDC! More

by Mark Smith March 4, 2011, 4:42 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: Game Maker HTML5 Addon

In this section: Game Maker to HTML5 export, Game Maker to ActionScript discussion Sandy Duncan: For 4 years we’ve had an on-off discussion about whether or not we could make a Game Maker for ActionScript, we decided that you could but you would have to take a big leap from bitmap to vector graphics and […] More

by Mark Smith March 3, 2011, 5:00 pm
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Nidhogg Wins IGF Nuovo Award

Messhof’s Nidhogg, described as “a 2 player fencing game with football & platforming elements” has won the Nuovo Award at IGF. The $5,000 award which is given to a game honouring “abstract, short-form, and unconventional game development” has been awarded to a game made using Game Maker for the second year in a row. Last […] More

by Mark Smith March 3, 2011, 10:15 am
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Desktop Dungeons wins IGF Excellence in Design

Game Maker creation Desktop Dungeons has been awarded the Excellence in Design prize at the Independent Games Festival awards at Game Developers Conference. The game beat Faraway, Minecraft, Nidhogg and Super Crate Box to pick up a cheque for $2,500. On collecting the award the South African creators QCF Design said they had not written […] More

by Mark Smith March 3, 2011, 9:50 am
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Sandy Duncan Interview: App Publishing Process

In this section: Publishing Apps, YoYo Game Store: Approval, Process, Publishing Agreement, app performance, support for serious developers, giving access to runners to third parties. Sandy Duncan: When publishing we try to choose games which we know aren’t pushing the limits of Game Maker to the extreme because we don’t know how far we can […] More

by Mark Smith March 2, 2011, 10:38 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: How YoYo Games Really Started & PSP

In this section: Founding YoYo Games Ltd, Mark Overmars and Game Maker, Writing runners for different hardware and PSP. Sandy Duncan: I’ll go back to how YoYo Games really started, there were a bunch of us paid by a Venture Capital firm to come up with some ideas for them. There was me, James North-Hearn […] More

by Mark Smith March 2, 2011, 2:11 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview – Coming Soon

Earlier today I spoke with YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan and asked him about App publishing, Game Maker 8.1, Game Maker for Mac, the HTML5 runner and company itself. I was hoping to post a recording of our conversation here but Sandy asked that I instead publish edited transcripts. I will do so covering various topics in […] More

by Mark Smith March 2, 2011, 12:52 pm
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Game Maker HTML5 Export – Addon for Pro Users

Over the weekend more information has emerged about the recent HTML5 proof of concept video showcased by YoYo Games. Although at the time of the official blog post announcing the video YoYo Games had not yet decided how they would commercialise the Game Maker to HTML5 converter, yesterday evening Sandy commented stating “we have already […] More

by Mark Smith March 1, 2011, 8:46 am

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