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YoYo Under Fire for “Unfair Pricing”

YoYo Games has been criticized for imbalanced pricing of the GameMaker: Studio Master Collection following the recent launch of the Ubuntu module. GMC member Jobo, who owns a copy of GameMaker: Studio Professional and has been a...
Tom Grochowiak on GameMaker for Professional Developers

Tom Grochowiak blogs about the love-hate relationship he has with GameMaker as a professional game developer. Under the MoaCube banner Tom has been the main developer on the Magi and ArcMagi magic strategy games and...
Comment: Why the Linux Port Will Flop

During early December we saw a surprising image of what appeared to be a port of Game Maker to Linux. Yet the excitement YoYo may have wanted to build, using the screenshot of the program running on a Fedora distribution, may not...
New YoYoGames.com Homepage Design

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Designing for Hardcore Gamers and Casual Gamers

There are so many different potential players of your game and it can be hard to make your game suit different tastes. Here I examine two broad gamer definitions that can be expand into many more. Hardcore Gamers You can always...
Thoughts on the iOS ‘Compiler’ and Response at YoYo Games

It’s not a decompiler Firstly I’ll start with a definition. I wanted to address this issue earlier but misjudged the pace at which the story would develop. Game Maker code is not compiled it is interpreted. Every...
Guest Post: A Career in the Games Industry

The game industry is a steadily growing market. If you are a gamer, pursuing a job in video game design could be a great way to turn your hobby into a substantial money making career. If you know a little about the process of...
Game Maker: A solution to growing fragmentation of the mobile games sector?

It appears that YoYo Games are trying to encourage mobile application developers to switch to using Game Maker by promising cross-platform support. Android applications are written in Java, whilst Apps for the iPhone and iPad...

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YoYo Under Fire for “Unfair Pricing”

Tom Grochowiak on GameMaker for Professional Developers

Comment: Why the Linux Port Will Flop

New YoYoGames.com Homepage Design

Designing for Hardcore Gamers and Casual Gamers

Thoughts on the iOS ‘Compiler’ and Response at YoYo Games

Guest Post: A Career in the Games Industry

Game Maker: A solution to growing fragmentation of the mobile games sector?

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