GameMaker Blog

Certain articles from Tom Russell’s Russell’s Quarterly magazine are now available in podcast form.
The podcasts are short - the longest is just 18 minutes - and long articles are broken down into several shows.  Writing on the GMC Russell said of his new distribution method “hopefully this format will allow you to experience [long articles] [...]

GameMaker Blog can exclusively reveal that the content of the long established MadLadDesigns Game Maker Knowledge Base will soon be integrated into GMKing’s GMPedia wiki resource.
The Knowledge Base, which has not been actively maintained for a while, has had over 25,000 visitors and hosts a wide range of informative articles and examples to explain GameMaker [...]

The “Distributing Games” section of the Game Maker Community often contains posts where people are discussing their ideas to setup websites to enable GameMaker users to sell games they have created. Every now and again some of these ideas actually get past the drawing board and a website is actually set up.
The latest [...]

Introducing the snappily titled “Game Maker Users Helper - The Offcial Video Website” which can be found at the equally easy to remember URL of http://gamemakerusershelper-theoffcialvideowebsite.magnify.net
Recent months have seen a number of Game Maker video sites come and go. The biggest and most successful being Dan Egger’s GMTV, but we have also seen releases [...]

GameMaker Games have launched a one month Game creation contest with the theme “this game is art”.
Prizes will be vouchers or gift certificates of some type. For full details of the entrance criteria and rules click here.

A new community website for users of Game Maker has launched. GamerGM.com has a file upload facility, forum and reviews section and also includes an interview with SnailFox, creator of the game 65 Million and 1 BC.

From a magazine to a blog. I think this is a good idea, although the technical implementation doesn’t impress me.
 

When Robin Monk’s Game Maker news aggregator service, gmplanet, was first released I was skeptical at the effect it would have on content producing Game Maker websites. I also feared that GameMaker.info, a customisable Game Maker startpage which I was a big fan of, would be damaged.