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gmtv.gmshack.com have finally produced their first video, a week-end extra, released on a Wednesday:
Except of course it wasn’t the first video to emerge, remember Drip Drop, LEAK and the following posts?
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You may feel that taking a screenshot is easy, and indeed it is, but a lot of the screenshots I see promoting games at the GMC and on sites devoted to gamemaker games fail to follow even the simplest of rules to make your screenshot effective.
There are a number of factors determining the effectiveness of [...]
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A good resource I came across recently was Simple Status, a website that can generate graphical status bars for those of you that insist on displaying the progress of development on your up-and-coming games in your forum signatures.
Much neater than the usual ||||||||||||||s I hope you’ll agree.
Gamemakerblog is online
An example of the [...]
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What format should I save my screenshot as?
The one vital rule:
Not as a bitmap (.bmp)
If you don’t know the differences between different image formats, and how data relating to the picture is stored you might want to check out this article on Wikipedia about the way bitmap files are stored.
Using a bitmap, such as the [...]