100 Games in 1

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 [...]

GameMaker highscores with Vex K

Vishnu Aravind has released an updated version of his online GameMaker highscores service.
I first reviewed the original service back in October of last year when writing for Issue 9 of the MarkUp game development magazine.
Put simply the site contains everything you need to create a global online highscore table for any game created in GameMaker. [...]

Game Maker makes top 50 freeware games ever

5 Game Maker games make the list. A British magazine, "PCZone" has listed the "top 50 freeware games ever", with 5 GM-made games in it, on the following positions:

35: Flywrench by messhof
33: Clean Asia by cactus
19: Deathworm by JTR
17: Frozzd by 2DCube
10: Seiklus by tapeworm

Congratulations to all the makers of these games. Nethack’s on place [...]

Share your Desktop Wallpaper with WallShare

WallShare by zedman1000 is a small (2.84 MB download) program that enables you to swap and share your desktop wallpapers with other users from around the world.
Downloading and Installing
To get started first download the software from the WallShare website, http://wallshare.uni.cc/. Once you have downloaded the file you will need to extract the contents [...]

Why you should include a manual with your game

As featured in the May 2007 edition of the MarkUp Game Development Magazine
How many times have you started to play a gamemaker game before realising that the programmers ‘forgot’ to include full instructions and a control map?
Finding yourself playing a game for the first time without knowing what you are meant to or [...]

Tutorial: Using pdf995 to create a .pdf file

Pdf995 offers everything you need to create professional looking PDF files for free.

The software which officially retails at $9.95 also offers a free version which displays an advert every time you use the software. Your final PDF however, does not contain any adverts or plugs for the software.

Downloading and installing the software is easy, [...]