May 2011
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Creative Game Challenge 2011 Shortlist
A shortlist of 20 games has been drawn up for the 2011 Creative Game Challenge. Water was the theme for the second annual game development competition for Dutch high school students organised by Mark Overmars’ Utrecht University. All games entered in to the competition were made using YoYo Games’ Game Maker software. With 113 teams submitting […] More
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Community Links: .ogg Extension, Rocket Party Giveaway, GMVision to Return
Multiplatform Game Maker .ogg Extension MoaCube’s Marius Utheim has written and released the first cross-platform Game Maker extension enabling .ogg audio files which can be used in both GameMaker 8.1 and GameMaker for Mac. Rocket Party Giveaway Vetra Games are giving away 30 copies of Rocket Party on Mac. Prizes will be given to followers […] More
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Dare Academy Game Design and Game Maker Course
Dare to be Digital, who run a video games development competition, will be offering a Game Design & Game Maker course at their Dare Academy. The course, at the University of Abertay in Dundee, will run for 8 weekends from 18th June and will be taught by Brian Lawson who worked at DMA with YoYo […] More
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Community Links: Jeph Wacheski, Szczecin GameShow
Quote Unquote, a blog featuring interviews with indie game developers, yesterday posted an interview with Jeph Wacheski. Some of Jeph’s older games were made using Game Maker but now he uses the lightweight zGameEditor. In the interview Jeph outlines the reasons he favours zGameEditor over YoYo Games’ Game Maker but suggests that he could return […] More
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YoYoGames.com to Get Long Overdue Overhaul?
Paul Cosgrove and Chris Harrison, two former Realtime World employees, are the latest to join YoYo Games growing team in Dundee. The very smiley web developer Paul will apparently “be working with Lee [Turner] on various web related projects within YoYo”. Hopefully this means that the neglected main YoYoGames.com website will soon be receiving some […] More
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MoaCube – Game Maker Indie Game Studio
MoaCube are a team of programmers and artists who have released one game and are working on two new titles. Headed by “professional indie developer” Tom Grochowiak they use GameMaker to build their games. Although a new name, MoaCube essentially consists of those who worked on existing titles alongside Tom. Magi, a strategy “wizard dueling” […] More
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GreenTech+ Xbox Live Indie Game Out Now
Optum have released Vertigo Games’ GreenTech+ as an Xbox Live Indie Game. More
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Game Maker Studio Edition: Not in 2011
YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan has written a long post on the YoYo Games Glog in which he recounts recent achievements and provides an outline for the future development of the company. The full post is well worth a read for the official word on all things GameMaker and YoYo Games Publishing related and amongst […] More
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in Books
Game Maker 8 Cookbook Announced
Packt Publishing have announced one of their future titles as Uriel Griffin’s Game Maker 8 Cookbook. The book will feature a number of “recipes” providing step by step instructions and additional information on how to implement various desired game effects. The book will cover a wide range of GameMaker’s feature set including basic drag and […] More
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Game Maker Games April 2011: Tottenham, Retrovision, Blue Box
A brief look at 3 Game Maker games released last month. Tottenham by Theta Games More