New GM Magazine “The Independent Gamer” to Replace IndieGo
A new Game Maker magazine, named “The Independent Gamer”, debuted its first issue yesterday.
Issue 1 includes an article on game theory, an interview with Game Maker user Notcturne on the Game Jam, snippets of news, and obligatory GM game reviews. There are 20 pages of content in total, including the front and back covers.
You can grab a copy of the magazine for the rather ambitious fee of $4.50USD for a printed edition. Additionally, you can also freely purchase a digital copy, but with a registered account at MagCloud.
A mirror of the digital version on Dropbox has also been provided for those who wish not to subscribe to the MagCloud service.
The magazine has been developed by the “surviving members” of IndieGo magazine, who subsequently failed to make three issues of their previous endeavor.
In a post on the Game Maker Community, The Independent Gamer states that IndieGo, which was established only two months a go during mid-September of 2011, has now folded.
IndieGo was perhaps best known for causing controversy after announcing a false partnership with YoYo Games earlier this year, which eventually lead to YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan posting a Twitter update, where he denied knowing anything about it.
New GM Magazine “The Independent Gamer” to Replace IndieGo http://t.co/zLbhkT0A
GameMakerBlog should be reporting news, not creating news.
Since Phil has become less involved and “loaf” more involved GameMakerBlog is just going down the crapper.
“IndieGo was perhaps best known for causing controversy after announcing a false partnership with YoYo Games earlier this year, which eventually lead to YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan posting a Twitter update, where he denied knowing anything about it.”
Scottay cleared the controversy up, specifically re-enforcing that IndieGo had been working with YYGs, and that Sandy wasn’t aware of it, nor as CEO should he be.
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=519523&st=20&p=3832858&#entry3832858
“Just to confirm, we have indeed been speaking with and involved with Indie Go. We wish to get behind and support all GameMaker Community ventures. Nocturne is correct in that Sandy is not always aware as he has bigger things to deal with, so don’t take a throwaway twitter comment as gospel.
Kirsty ” (AKA Scottay from YYGs)
Shameful dishonest reporting.
Hello,
I am sorry you feel this way, NakedPaulToast. It was to my knowledge that that IndieGo did indeed lie about their partnership with YoYo, or at the very least, exaggerate it to something it wasn’t, which did indeed cause controversy (that to my view was a key in the failure of the project; it was poison).
Thanks
Hey there, thanks for giving us a mention. I’m afraid I can’t comment on the whole YYG partnership thing as this was organised by people no longer with us. Hope everyone likes the magazine. The price on the hard copy isn’t up to us its set by magcloud, we only see something like 50cents from each sale. We will however try and keep the digital copy free for life.
Pretty good all round as first issues goes, though not sure this can really be called a “Game Maker magazine”! Decent design and some interesting content.
Website can be found at http://www.theindependentgamer.co.uk/
Hey thanks for the comments. It has to be said we aren’t a Game Maker magazine. We feature Game maker content but we’re mostly about the whole indie community rather than just one part.