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    2008 Review: Game Maker Magazines

    Over the past year the fate of different Game Maker magazines has contrasted.  The year started with two strong magazines, GameMaker Tech and MarkUp, going head to head with their January releases.  However in 2008 these often praised publications had a troubled year, with both magazines releasing less frequently than they had done so in […] More

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    Four Tips To Creating Your Own Game

    The process of creating your own game is definitely not a walk in the park. There are an endless number of steps that need to be taken, and that is before the coding can even begin. Once those steps are complete, coding could easily see you spiral down into a world of confusion and bugs […] More

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    2DCube is the new FredFredrickson

    Another new GameMaker ‘magazine’ has been released, just a day after Prodigy Game Magazine hit the GMC. This magazine however takes the much more practical approach of being a PowerPoint slide show distributed as a password protected download. “GRandER” – (suggestions regarding the origins of the name wanted!) – features a review of Iji a […] More

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    More YYG Instant Play Vulnerabilities

    After earlier discovering an exploit that enabled a Firefox extension to secretly be downloaded whilst a user runs an Instant Play application James Rhodes has discovered several more vulnerabilities in YoYo Games’ Instant Play feature. One vulnerability can fetch the login hash of Windows XP user’s logged into YoYo Games if they have selected the […] More

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    Instant Play: YYG Vulnerability

    Go back a couple of years and the standard answer to “how to I get my game to work online?” was, “you don’t”. However in the present day you would probably be greeted with a variety of options. Think YoYo Games’ Instant Play, GMBed, GMX, GMArcade and YAIPP. These are the better known of the […] More

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    Fake Fred Fails – GMC attitude stinks

    An immature GMC member has created an account with the username ‘FredFrederickson‘ which he was using to impersonate GMC global moderator FredFredrickson. This post is not written however to give attention to such stupidity of attention seekers, but instead to the attitudes of other community members including a moderator. After a good deal of confusion […] More

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    Where are the online highscores?

    It has now been more than a year since Mark Overmars announced that YoYo Games would create an online highscore system ‘pretty soon’. “We will enhance the highscore mechanism in Game Maker such that scores will be stored on the website and there will be many different lists. We also plan to connect the highscore […] More

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    GMC Malware free

    The malware which had been inserted into the forum template at YoYo Games’ Game Maker Community via an iframe was finally removed yesterday. Today GMC administrator Chronic announced that an encoded and harder to spot link to the virus had also been removed. And for those of you that disagreed with my critisicm of the […] More

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    Bye-Bye GameMaker Blog?

    YoYo Games decided to mention the release of GameMaker magazines (GameMaker Tech 2 days late). I must admit I am a little confused following the merger of The YoYo Games and Mark’s blog. The result appears to deliver a strange mix of YYG updates, GameMaker tips and requests to GameMaker users – and now apparently […] More

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    4th GMKing Podcast released

    GMKing’s sporadically released GameMaker Audcast Podcast is back with a fourth episode. Dan Eggers, a writer here and creator of GMTV, joins Robin Monks for a dicussion on GameMaker news from the past month. Here are the topics covered in the second audcast of 2008: Cage Match: 00:50 Loads of Game Maker mags: 02:18 G3D […] More

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    Persistence presence of puzzles perplexes me

    GameMaker Tech have dropped them, MarkUp have never had them, but the smaller and less established magazines love them – I’m talking about word puzzles and games. The kind of things you would expect to find on the back of newspapers or in a young child’s comic. The crosswords, wordsearches, mazes and spot the differences […] More

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    The 4 GameMaker magazines

    Recently we have seen new releases from the three of the magazines devoted to the GameMaker platform. GameMakerTech and MarkUp are the publications that have released the most issues to date with 13 and 14 magazines respectively. New this year are two magazines – out with the lack of originality and in with a brand […] More

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