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    GMIndie’s World Domination Plan

    GMIndie appear not to be content just hosting two live radio shows and releasing a magazine every week.  They plan to run a third radio show each week and to launch “GMIndie TV“. Their site lists thirteen twelve members who aim to release “the best game maker entertainment”.  I think they mean media. Why can’t […] More

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    YoYoGames.com Forums Unmoderateable

    The YoYoGames.com forums (not to be confused with the official Game Maker Community) has never had a particularly good reputation amongst the more-mature sections of Game Maker users. So when I came across this topic on an issue regarding race I wasn’t all that surprised. What I was disappointed to see though was that the […] More

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    Did you predict 2009?

    This time last year we asked whether 2009 would see the release of Game Maker 8 and Game Maker for Mac.  You thought so with these two predicitions for the year receiving the most votes in our poll (results repeated below). [poll id=”6″] Here is a  look back at how the predictions fared: More

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    On Downtime

    Yesterday the official Game Maker Community was offline for at least 12 hours with a 503 error. Now that the forum is back online the reason for the downtime has been revealed – the servers php version was being upgraded from 4 to 5 ahead of an upgrade of the Invision Power Board (IPB) software […] More

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    What is Game Maker Station doing?

    Game Maker Station obviously sees itself as the new GMKing.  A recent e-mail to forum members outlined the services they offer which include a forum, a chat room, a blog network, a game maker top sites list, a game maker school and file hosting and email services.  Not to mention a poor-mans version of this […] More

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    Non-YoYo Games Competitions (including list)

    Last Saturday I examined the effects that competitions held by YoYo Games had on their website.  I had originally intended to also take a look at non-YoYo Games game making contests and compare their effectiveness but couldn’t find enough information about them. Competitions held by smaller community sites have fewer resources than YoYo Games and […] More

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    2009 Predictions: 6 months on

    At the start of the year we asked readers of this blog to predict whether or not certain events would happen this year.  Now six months on how have the predictions fared? 55% of you thought that the mac version of Game Maker would be released.  At the end of last year we had just […] More

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    New GameMaker Magazine: Simulator GM

    SimulatorGM is a small developing magazine that focuses on reviewing simulation games made with Game Maker. This can be any simulation from sports games, to sandbox games, to particle or spore based games. Each issue, we pick one game or program that we enjoyed the most and include it with the magazine. You can read […] More

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    64digits hacked – don’t visit the site

    Everyone’s favourite Game Maker community site, 64 digits, has been hacked.  If you have followed GameMaker Blog for any length of time you probably know that I despise the site and their constant hackings, admin fallings out, infighting and general order of chaos.  This is just a warning that you should not visit the site unless […] More

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    Wanted! Your Predictions for 2009

    Game Maker 8 released? Officially this is due to be released in 2009 however if the delays experienced when creating the Mac version are anything to go by we will probably be looking at 2011.  Work has clearly not begun on the ‘Maker’ part (see below). “The first priority has been to get the runner into […] More

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