July 2011
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GameMaker HTML5 in “closed Alpha build”
YoYo Games earlier disclosed that ‘GameMaker HTM5’ will be released “this year” and recently announced that GameMaker HTML5 now has a closed Alpha build. We can review a product exported from this upcoming Game Maker version already at http://www.yoyogames.com, where the site now features a HTML5 version of its homepage animation replacing its ActionScript carousel […] More
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YoYoGames Forums – Exploit Means Anyone Can Create New Forum
An exploit at the official YoYoGames.com forum means that any registered user can create a new forum section. Opening the General Chat section of forums.yoyogames.com now reveals a number of unauthorised sub-forums. The creator of these sub-forums is not apparent but with themes including “Decompiled Games”, “Pornography” and “Ads” a mischievous forum member has been […] More
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GameMaker created HTML5 Animation on YoYo Games Homepage
The flash animation on the YoYo Games homepage has been updated so that, if your browser is compatible, a HTML5 animation will show instead. The new animation, which rotates through the various versions of GameMaker, looks and feels the same as the original flash version but has been created with the as yet unreleased HTML5 […] More
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indie(Function) 6 with Uriel Griffin, iOS5 HTML5 Speed
Uriel Griffin was the guest interviewee in this week’s indie(Radio) and indie(Magazine). Writing of his use of GameMaker for Mac Uriel states that “we’ve made around 2,500 dollars” from the Mac App Store. Presumably this “we” encompasses the total revenues which are split between original game developers such as Jesse Venbrux and Uriel who modifies […] More
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Community Links: Jesse on Addictive Gameplay, Quote Unquote, Old Game-Maker Advert
Jesse Venbrux is to give a talk entitled Creating addictive gameplay in They Need To Be Fed at the Casual Connect games industry event. Casual Connect takes place in Seattle next week – details. Quote Unquote have published two interviews with former GameMaker users. Charlie Ngo currently attends Digipen College in Washington whilst Noel Berry now focus on Flashpunk development. […] More
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YoYo Website Changes Continue
Since their new website was launched YoYo Games have been working on improving the information it contains. A news feed has been added to the frontpage, though the lack of a RSS icon on the site has led to a few people thinking that no such feed exists. An earlier error, where the site incorrectly […] More
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Magazines: Overbyte Returns with 4th Issue
The Overbyte GameMaker magazine has returned after 14 months absence because editor RC “miss[ed] writing things that people will actually read and hopefully enjoy”. > Download Overbyte 4 (left click only) The magazine starts with an “obligatory news” section which briefly covers the relaunch of both the YoYo Games website and Game Maker’s Digest magazine. […] More
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New YoYoGames.com has 54% Fewer Uploads and 38% Fewer Game Plays
The recently relaunched YoYo Games website gives more attention to the GameMaker product and less to GameMaker creations. The effect of the new site on games uploaded by GameMaker users can now be seen. Since switching to the new site on 4th July YoYo Games has experienced: 54% decrease in the number of games uploaded […] More
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indie(Radio) 5 and Game Maker’s Digest 10
Episode 5 of indie(Radio) was hosted by Bret Hudson yesterday evening. In the first half of the show Noel Berry is interviewed and discusses his work with flaspunk including the engines he has released. Kya Suleyman then joins Bret to discuss the new YoYo Games website, a FlashDevelop beta, Game Maker’s Digest and HTML5 Game […] More
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HTML5 GameMaker to have “Team Collaboration Feature”
The HTML5 GameMaker page on the new YoYo Games website has recently been expanded to provide additional information about what will be the next new version of the software to be released. The page lists the following two features as being unique to the HTML5 version which I believe were not yet public knowledge: GameMaker […] More
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Ninjammin Beat-Jitsu Review (iOS)
To say YoYo Games has been pushing mobile game deployment in the past six months would be an understatement; they’ve been charging forward. Although every day developers have not yet been given the tools to publish on mobile platforms, such as iOS and Android, YoYo has been taking great games developed with Game Maker and […] More
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Construct 2: Interview with creators of HTML5 Game Creation Tool
It has been two and a half years since I first saw Scirra‘s Construct game making software and compared it to GameMaker in what has turned out to be one of this website’s most popular articles to date. Since then there have been a lot of developments as both YoYo Games and Scirra have turned […] More
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