Development

More stories

  • 6 Comments

    in Development, GameMaker Studio, YoYo Games

    GameMaker Now Supports Increase/Decrease Operators

    The latest version of GameMaker: Studio (version 1.1.734) has introduced over 300 fixes and changes, and notably added support for increase and decrease operators. These operators have been a frequent request within the GameMaker community. While this common functionality will be familiar to users of major programming languages and other engines, GameMaker has lacked this […] More

  • 3 Comments

    in Development, GameMaker Development, GameMaker for Steam, YoYo Games

    GameMaker: Studio Now On Steam

    Yesterday, YoYo Games announced a new partnership with Valve Software, creators of the extraordinarily popular Steam game distribution network. The first part of this partnership regards the opening of the new Steam App Store. Steam is moving beyond games and will begin selling application software as well. GameMaker: Studio will be one of those apps […] More

  • 4 Comments

    in Development

    5 Ways to Avoid Vaporware

    Vaporware; software or hardware that is announced and never released, nor officially cancelled. Or as I see it, the fate of most GM projects. It is a sad truth. Many Game Maker users will announce tonnes of new games, applications, and concepts in their time at the GMC, but so many of those projects will never see […] More

  • 8 Comments

    in Development

    2011 Game Maker Predictions: 6 Months On

    At the start of the year we conducted our annual prediction poll in which 7 proposals about the future of Game Maker were put forward to vote on. 170 readers took part and indicated which they thought would occur during the year. Now, halfway through what has already been an eventful year in the development […] More

  • 7 Comments

    in Development

    GMare – Open Source Game Maker Room Editor

    Michael Mercado has released an early version of an open source alternative to the built in Game Maker room editor, GMare. Written in C# the editor features a zoom, tile fill and many other tile features. Admittedly this would have been much more useful if it was released months or even years back, given that […] More

  • 3 Comments

    in Development

    Game Maker for Mac out “by July”

    In a post on the YoYo Games blog Sandy has written that a final release candidate of Game Maker 7 for Mac should be out in the next fortnight. After a week of testing it is then hoped that a final general release version will be made available by July. Game Maker for Mac has […] More

  • 2 Comments

    in Development, YoYo Games

    Like YoYo Games Ltd?

    You can’t become a fan of YoYo Games Ltd but now you can join their official Facebook group. If you ever wanted to expose your personal Facebook account to Game Maker users now you can! The first thing posted on the group is a video showing one of the competition 5 runners up, Pixelry by […] More

  • 5 Comments

    in Development

    48 Hours of Game Maker Development in 5 Minutes

    A couple of weeks ago Xerus (Kyle Pulver) released a timelapse video showing the development of his island-defence game Gaiadi sped up to fit in under 5 minutes. The game was created for entry into Ludum Dare 17 which it won. Ludum Dare is the name given to a series of 48-hour game creation contests […] More

Load More
Congratulations. You've reached the end of the internet.