August 2011
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YoYoGames releases “YoYo Games Experimental”
More exported content from GameMaker HTML5 has been released by YoYoGames as part of “YoYoGames Experimental” announced earlier on their blog. Experimental allows visitors to play demos of “Grave Maker”, “They Need To Be Fed”, “Solitaire HD”, “Mr. Karoshi”, “Maddening” and “SkyDiver HD” in HTML5. I had a go on all these games with an iPad 2 running iOS […] More
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Since Game Maker Tech
In the last week I was contacted by Kay Johnson, who oversaw development of the Game Maker Technology magazine from its November 2006 launch to its 17th and last issue in September 2009. Since that last release Kay completely left “the GameMaker scene”, time which has seen numerous developments and announcements surrounding the future of […] More
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Community Links: Look at GameMaker HTML5 Alpha, indie(Magazine) 11, Venbrux and Vlambeer
Game Maker Community administrator Chronic has posted about his experiences using the closed Alpha version of GameMaker HTML5 at the forum. YoYo Games’ Russell Kay has been answering users’ questions in the same topic. Issue 11 of indie(Magazine) was released yesterday (5.4MB .pdf). This latest edition includes reviews of the top 3 games from the recent GMC GameJam and an […] More
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Construct 2 Licence Prices Revealed: Free – $255
Yesterday Scirra launched the licensing programme for their Construct 2 HTML5 game maker. There are three versions of the software. The free edition places limits on the number of resources that can be used within a game and restricts access to certain features. The Standard ($65) and Business ($255) packages remove most of these restrictions. […] More
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Play Remaddening and They Need to be Fed in GameMaker HTML5
YoYo Games employee Andrew McCluskey has posted online the first publicly playable game created using the HTML5 version of GameMaker. R5Maddening is a version of Remaddening created using an early build of GameMaker HTML5, which is currently in closed alpha. Update: A HTML5 version of Jesse Venbrux’s They Need to be Fed is also available […] More
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Community Links: Ludum Dare 21, Pricing and Focus of GameMaker, GameJolt indie(Function) Contest
Ludum Dare 21 is currently under way, the indie game creation contest and jam runs until the end of this weekend with the theme “Escape”. Entrants using GameMaker include FolisDev and NaturallyMade, a longer list can be found here. The site, featuring development blog post from those taking part, is currently experiencing some difficulties due […] More
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GameMaker HTML5 Pricing Revealed – $199 (or $99)
YoYo Games will sell their HTML5 GameMaker product for $199 (£120, €140)^. A $100 discount is available to those who purchase during the beta period which, anticipated to start in September, is just weeks away. This means that active GameMaker users will be able to pick up a copy of GameMaker HTML5 for $99. Writing […] More
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RekameMag – Issue 4
Andrew McCluskey recently released the fourth issue of his GameMaker magazine RekameMag. Download 7.8MB pdf: Dropbox Host-A The Flaws of Ratings explores the lunacy behind numerical based rating systems commonly used to review and compare games. In the end everything is subjective and the article concludes that numbers should be taken with a big pinch […] More
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New Game Maker Community Theme
YoYo Games have updated the default forum skin at the official Game Maker Community. The new, much darker, theme is pretty much a complete overhaul and features a grey top navigational bar similar to that introduced on the main YoYo Games website last month. More
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indie(Magazine) Issue 10 – “Hiatus”
The tenth issue of indie(Magazine) has today been released. This means the magazine has now released the same number of issues as Game Maker’s Digest. The magazine starts with a three page round up of indie gaming news before 3 GameMaker games are reviewed. The games are Helicopter Hero in which you fly around a […] More
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Community Links: Plug Pulled on App Inventor and HTML5 Ogg Vorbis Support
Google has scrapped development of its App Inventor for Android. A rather unexpected development given that Google are getting more involved in social gaming with today’s announcement of Games in Google+. Perhaps a replacement is being lined up? Scirra last week launched a campaign to get Ogg Vorbis support in Internet Explorer and Safari. The […] More
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GameMaker HTML5 Windows Beta “Anticipated” for September
In a post on their blog earlier today YoYo Games stated that they currently “anticipate” a beta release of GameMaker HTML5 in early September. On Twitter yesterday Mark Overmars also revealed that initially the GameMaker HTML5 IDE will only be available on Windows. You can request an invite for the GameMaker HTML5 beta here. If […] More
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