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Or - yet another attempt to flog CDs of GameMaker created games.
The team/person behind the project have rather aptly decided to name themselves “Pure Evil Productions” - bound, I’m sure, to inspire confidence in both game makers and game players.
The plan is for 100 GameMaker created games to be sold on a CD, with each [...]

True or not? What do you think happened? Is he just plain lying, did he unintentionally get infected or is it a real false positive?
In theory, I think it’s possible that the virus scanner at YYG could be detecting false positives in games because in the past, Game Maker was used to make a virus.
But [...]

Yet another of these topics has arisen in the distributing games section of the community, topics in which people relatively new to GameMaker come up with the oh-so-unoriginal idea of making a website to sell GameMaker made games.
Their plans are so so well thought through - from the start they know how much commission they [...]

In the latest post on YoYo Games’ Glog, Sandy asks Game Maker users to support the company by introducing their “friends and family” to it. Essentially, he wants more people to click the ads on the site so they can make more money. With Instant Play now up and running, people don’t need to worry [...]

Distributing games: the worst section ever. I mean, it used to be good, until somebody decided to ditch their job of moderating it at all. Straight to a list of problems:

No moderation: any topics that are dumb, useless and against forum rules stay alive for days
Nobody updating the pinned topics
13 year olds asking questions similar [...]

As part of an feature I have been writing for the 7th issue of the MarkUp game development magazine (out next month) I have been following the progress of a few game maker made games.
One of these games, Immortal Defense was included on the cover DVD of a magazine I read. StudioEres, creator [...]

A shortened version of a lengthy feature about the different ways of earning money from games you have created. This was written for the 7th issue of MarkUp (released August 2007).
A history
Game Maker, its community, and the games people are creating with it have certainly come a long way. When I first found [...]

Promoting a freeware game will be different from promoting a commercial game - the most important thing, I think, is to be aware of who your target audience is and to make sure they see your message.
Forum signatures are a great place to advertise since it is essentially free space, and if you are an [...]