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    GameMaker Forums Hacked – Unencrypted Passwords Leaked

    Updated 22/04/2013 – ‘Exclusive: Interview With The GameMaker Community Hacker‘ The official GameMaker Community forums (GMC) have been inaccessible over the past 48 hours, and today YoYo Games, the developers behind GameMaker: Studio, have announced that this was due to the discovery of a successful hacking attempt. Between 5000-8000 user accounts are estimated to have […] More

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    April Fool’s Watch

    IGN owned fileplanet.com are offering a “Portal 2 Single Player Demo” download which they have promoted across their network of sites. When downloaded and extracted the 5.66MB file (a far cry from the 975.7GB claimed size!) contains a poorly made platformer created in Game Maker.  The file has already been downloaded over 5,000 times. On […] More

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    GameSpark Game Maker Video Courses

    A website offering step-by-step Game Maker video courses has launched.  GameSpark has been developed by a company which runs game design and robotics camps so the people behind the site have experience teaching game design. The site claims to offer “Everything you need to make a game” and along with the teaching side also has […] More

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    Domain Expiration leaves UpUrLoad files unavailable

    Rather fittingly given my recent comments about the lack of reliability that exists if choosing a Game Maker specific file host, the UpUrLoad.com domain name has expired.  This renders the 1,900 uploaded files unavailable. I think we will see it back online again shortly though as the service has rapidly been gaining popularity and I […] More

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    I Pity the Fools

    A quick round up of various April Fools’ themed stupidity that can currently be found on Game Maker websites. The GMC admins appear to have been busy authoring fake posts using various user accounts in a new “GMC Off-Topic” section of the forum. “The GMC has a new forum called GMC Off-Topic. Membership is by invitation […] More

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    Some Questions about the YoYo Games Homepage

    I don’t think that the potentially lucrative space on the YoYoGames.com homepage is being put to its best use.  There is limited real-estate on the index page of what is a popular gaming site so surely it should be continually updated with fresh new content to entice people to play different games, discover Game Maker […] More

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    Did you predict 2009?

    This time last year we asked whether 2009 would see the release of Game Maker 8 and Game Maker for Mac.  You thought so with these two predicitions for the year receiving the most votes in our poll (results repeated below). [poll id=”6″] Here is a  look back at how the predictions fared: More

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    GMVision’s Second Minisode Published

    GMVision’s 2nd Minisode has been released. This episode looks at various file hosts that may or may not be aimed specifically at Game Maker. With the abrupt shutdown of the popular “Will Host For Food”, this episode may be a great resource for people looking for a replacement host. The hosts featured in this Minisode […] More

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    Game Maker Station offers “merge” to 64Digits

    Earlier today the owner of Game Maker Station, Frederick Watson, sent an e-mail to 64Digits administrator Arcalyth requesting a “merge” with the still popular Game Maker community. Frederick presents the proposed merge as a rare and lucky opportunity for the often-troubled site which has over 15,000 registered accounts. “The only thing keeping 64 Digits alive […] More

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    GMC Moderator is New GM-Resources owner

    The Game Maker Community moderator and owner of GMLScripts.com, xot, is to take over GM-Resources.com Following the announcement that the site was up for sale a number of Game Maker groups including GMVision and Game Maker Station expressed an interest in purchasing the site. More

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