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 is taken from: GameMaker Blog

Mike Dailly is impressed with the performance of HTML5 on the next version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. Testing a GameMaker developed HTML5 animation on the beta of iOS5 Mike tweeted that it ran at “10-15 times the speed of iOS4.4″. A test animation which was “1/5 the size of the Flash version” achieved 60fps as an iOS web app. [Mike Dailly's Twitter]

TrueValhalla has posted about the donations his projects have received at the Myriad Online forum.

indie(Function) 6 with Uriel Griffin, iOS5 HTML5 Speed is taken from: GameMaker Blog

Kya Suleyman then joins Bret to discuss the new YoYo Games website, a FlashDevelop beta, Game Maker’s Digest and HTML5 Game Maker.

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Issue 10 of Game Maker’s Digest features two articles.  The cover leads on a comprehensive interview with Landon Podbielski which covers GameMaker 3D and composing amongst other topics.

There is also an interesting article about YoYo Games titled “We are not a charity”.  The magazine had a “conversation” with YoYo Games staff in which several issues were discussed but I feel that the opportunity to present this was under-used and the article could have been better written.

This is better than the previous issue, there are still plenty “filler” pages but the adverts are gone.  Interestingly this issue is also available in Dutch though via Google Translate apparently so I would expect it to be far from perfect.

Left click only .pdf download

indie(Radio) 5 and Game Maker’s Digest 10 is taken from: GameMaker Blog

indie(Function) had their third media releases last weekend [radio|magazine] and are hosting their fourth radio show this Saturday and releasing their fourth magazine issue this Sunday.

Quote Unquote have published an interview with Harrison Lemke. Harrison is a former GameMaker user turned composer and his music can be found in games such as Hero Core.

Community Links: Oil Blue Sales, indie(Function), Harrison Lemke is taken from: GameMaker Blog

The magazine has a brief news section, an interview with Flashpunk user Rolpege (which also appears in the radio show), and a Flashpunk competition round-up. On the GameMaker side there are short reviews of Work In Progress games including Barnov’s Phantasmaburbia, a Japanese-style Role Playing Game, and Ex Vitro.  There’s also a very basic GML tutorial (vk = virtual keyboard) and something very similar to this on the new YoYo Games homepage.

Refreshingly there are also a large number of different contributors.  The design looks to have had much more time spent on it than previously though I don’t think the lime green hyperlink colour quite works.

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The second indie(Radio) broadcast took place on Saturday. In the 22 minute show host Bret is joined by Flashpunk user Rolpege and Greg Lobanov (Banov). Once again I felt the content was rather rushed through and greater depth and preparation for the show would have improved its overall quality (for example having actually played Super Snake HD).

Both the radio show and magazine focus mainly on GameMaker and Flashpunk and should produce their third output this coming weekend.

indie(Radio) and indie(Magazine) second releases is taken from: GameMaker Blog

The show starts with Andrew McCluskey talking briefly about his time at YoYo Games and his Maddening and Innoquous 4 games.

Jack Brockley then joins host Bret Hudson for a look at some recent indie gaming news.  The show is not focused entirely on GameMaker as it features flashpunk, Stencyl and Minecraft news.

Innoquous 4 is then very briefly reviewed followed by a short game design talk from Allen Webster and disccusion about whether or not Game Maker Language’s loose syntax should be tightened up.

The show is off to a good start though I felt there could have been a bit more depth given to the topics discussed.

indie(Radio) Broadcast 1 – Innoquous 4, GML Loose Syntax is taken from: GameMaker Blog

Bret states that the group hope to continue projects abandoned by GMIndie when it merged into GMVision last September. Since then GMVision have not released any media at all.

First to appear should be indie(Radio) which will “kickoff” at an unannounced time today and includes an interview with Andrew McCluskey.

New Game Maker Media Team to Launch: indie(Function); is taken from: GameMaker Blog

They Need to Be Fed author Jesse Venbrux guests alongside usual presenters Andrew McCluskey, Jack Brockley and myself in this 35 minute show (recorded Saturday).

Jesse talks about his recent blog post on converting games for use on iPhone and iPad, his new job in Japan and beating Andrew at bowling.

We also briefly discuss a few other topics such as iPad gaming, the Game Maker’s Companion and (possibly) the next game YoYo Games will be releasing.

If there is anyone in particular you would like to hear on a future show please let us know in the comments.

Direct Link (32MB)

Show Links

Jesse’s blog post
They Need to Be Fed iPhone Review
Q Games
Karoshi (has links to versions in both Game Maker and Flash)
Andrew’s unfinished games that are at a playable stage
Game Maker decompiler

AppSpy: They Need to be Fed

m.yoyogames.com
Rhys Andrews’ Teka Teki (PC version on YoYoGames.com)
YoYo’s description of the game

Dustforce
Interview with Dustforce creators

Innoquous 4 screenshots on GMC

100,000 games at YoYo Games
Grabeorama YoYoGames.com game play stats

Game Maker’s Companion review

YoYo polishing 18 games
YoYo Games: 50 Employees and £18M turnover in 2012?

My post on the resources section of YoYoGames

Previous shows: GMTalk 4, GMTalk 3, GMTalk 2, GMTalk 1

Music: Define Happy by ushenkopo

GMTalk Game Maker Podcast – Episode 5: Jesse Venbrux is taken from: GameMaker Blog

The main topic covered in the show is the Game Maker 8 decompiler and we also discuss Andrew’s game for iOS and have a very brief look at the sixth YoYo Games competition. Also covered is the spotlight games procedure, what the demise of Realtime Worlds means for YYG, Andrew comes up with some Game Maker ideas and we have a look at the contents of the upcoming Rekame Mag 3 as part of our ever-present magazines feature.

Mono version:

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Show Links

Competition progress tracker
“More transparent” judging process promise
Around the world in 33 days

Game Maker Community Game Eve abandonment (GMB)
GMCG Demo (GMB)
GMCG List of new game ideas

YoYo Games forums
Girls breast sizes! (original post has been modified)

Development version of Mini Madness running on iPod Touch (video)
madnessMADNESSmadness original game
ReMaddening game
YYG to contact better game makers offering to publish their games on devices
Banov‘s comment on YYG blog post
Banov’s games on YYG

YYG homepage (with the spotlight!)
YYG featured games

Decompiler released (GMB)
Zach’s website
score_under‘s “Anti-Decompiler”
Decompiler is coming (light-to-pro) (GMB)
Mike Dailly’s blog
Slime Online 2 Forums
Slime Online

Rekame Mag (issue 2) (GMB)
This Is Indie website
xot’s comment on This Is Indie
Katamari Series
GMAG website

Results of Game Maker Survey 2010 (GMB)
Earlier GMB comments on implementation of the survey
(Jack’s post about Stencyl beta)

GMB post on GMIndie’s demise
Game Maker Gazette
GMIndie’s goodbye message
Jesse at YYG
GMIndie Podcasts: [with Sandy, with Mike and Russell]

IndiePubGames finalists
GMB post on the final (entry numbers)
The results are being announced at GDC Online in Texas on October 7th.

YYG App Store
@YoYoGameMaker on Twitter
Realtime Worlds BBC article

Follow Game Maker Blog on Twitter

Music: Dafear
Previous shows: GMTalk 3, GMTalk 2, GMTalk 1

*all podcast contributors are in the northern hemisphere!

GMTalk Game Maker Podcast – Episode 4 is taken from: GameMaker Blog

A global group of Game Maker users, featuring krejic‘s rather magnificent Dutch accent gather to list the reasons why they like Game Maker and talk a bit about “Game Maker d3D” providing few insights or opinions.

Despite the collection of accents I was able to understand everything that was said until the volume dropped after the unnecessary and downright bizarre choice of advert:  ”I use Java and that has a user friendly interface”.  It must be Gmindie.  It is.

Although most of the content is purely audio, and the intention was for this to originally be in the form of a podcast, the presence of game play video clips is a nice addition though they are rather choppy.

I will admit I had been expecting this to be diabolical – it wasn’t.  The end of the video is strange, the sound quality could definitely be improved but is far from the worst we have had in a Game Maker podcast or video show.  A bit more time spent thinking about the content and I think this could be around for a few more episodes.

Tailware Video Podcast – Not that bad! is taken from: GameMaker Blog