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Maddening HD on iPad Soon (Updated: Out now)

YoYo Games have released a small/badly laid out flow chart showing the process through which submitted games must go before appearing in the YoYo Game Store or on other platforms. An enlarged version is on the right. None of the game requirements, due to be listed in a “Base Line Spec”, have yet been released […] More

by Mark Smith November 1, 2010, 6:34 pm
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YoYo Games App Store Renames, Game submission nearly open

A couple of months back we reported that YoYo Games’ newly created marketplace, which they named the YoYo App Store, might have to change its name because “App Store” is a registered trademark of Apple. It appears this might have been the case as the online marketplace has now been renamed to the “YoYo Game […] More

by Mark Smith October 22, 2010, 9:10 pm
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Immortal Defense Pay What You Want Sale – Results so far

Paul Eres has posted in the Indie Gamer forums showing the effects so far of allowing purchasers of Immortal Defense to set their own price for the tower defence game. The Game Maker game, released just over 3 years ago, attracted 259 sales in the first 17 days of the offer at an average price […] More

by Mark Smith August 18, 2010, 6:30 pm
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Don’t Make Users Jump Through Hoops to Download Your Content

If you have invested your time creating a game, tutorial, example or piece of Game Maker media and want to share it with the world – please, make it easy for people to get their hands on it! All too often it seems that after working away for hours creating a product people just upload […] More

by Mark Smith July 11, 2010, 11:50 am
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Unauthorised Game Distribution

YoYo Games user snowyowl yesterday blogged at Ludum Dare saying that he had discovered that his recent contest entry, Jump Pirate, was being distributed without his permission on the Romanian software index Softpedia. Other Game Maker games on the site include Karoshi and CrimeLife 2 both of which have been downloaded over 100 and 7,000 times […] More

by Mark Smith May 21, 2010, 9:07 pm
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in Distribution, Games, Interviews

Game Maker Modern Warfare 2D is a Hit

A game based on the popular Call of Duty series has been quickly climbing up the ‘most played’ list on YoYo Games. The game, titled Modern Warfare 2D, is a two-dimensional take on the sixth instalment in the Call of Duty series. Although it was uploaded just 2 months ago the game has already reached […] More

by Mark Smith May 9, 2010, 10:44 pm
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Two Interesting Approaches to Game Monetization

An approach often used to monetize flash games is ‘game sponsorship’. This is where individual companies or flash game distribution websites fund (or buy) a game from its creator and then insert their own branding within the game. You have probably played many games where the logo of a free games website appears within the […] More

by Mark Smith April 13, 2010, 9:30 am
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in Distribution, YoYo Games

Instant Play for Chrome and Game Maker 8

When Game Maker 8 was released last month the Instant Play facility offered on YoYoGames.com was not updated so games created with the latest version of the software are currently only available as standard downloads. Next week YoYo Games are due to release a new version of the Instant Play plugin for Firefox and Internet […] More

by Mark Smith January 16, 2010, 12:34 am
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Which Handheld Devices will Game Maker games appear on?

With the announcement of Competition 5, many people are probably curious about Game Maker coming to a portable device. But which one? With the diverse specifications for each device, its hard to tell which portable system will have the best chance of supporting Game Maker. Lets take a deeper look into each of the popular […] More

by Mark Smith December 31, 2009, 2:46 am
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NextPlay: An easy Instant Play alternative

NextPlay, a feature rich Instant Play alternative, is a project that hasn’t got the attention it deserves. NextPlay was launched on February 22nd 2009 by Covac Software which is lead by uuf6429 at the GMC. NextPlay has the most features when comparing it to some other Instant Play alternatives as you can see on this […] More

by Mark Smith November 24, 2009, 5:57 am
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WillHostForFood starved

One of the most popular file hosting services used by Game Maker Community members has today gone offline. WillHostForFood had been online for 2 and a half years and hosted over 200GB of content belonging to over 5,000 members. To get an idea of the popularity of the site Google returns “about 79,000” results to […] More

by Mark Smith November 19, 2009, 9:43 pm
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Roket-Games launch Commercial Games

Roket-Games, the site YoYoGames.com should have been, has today added the ability for game developers to easily sell their games. Payments are made via PayPal with Roket-Games taking a small cut for controlling access to the full version. Submitted games will be moderated before they appear on the site to ensure that they are of sufficient quality […] More

by Mark Smith October 12, 2009, 1:04 pm

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