This is two downgrades on all previous versions and prevent people updating their gamemaker.

As a Game Maker user with standards, it really disappoints me how when many people hear that a game is made with Game Maker, the next thing that comes to their mind is usually something along the lines of “Going to be bad”.

Of course, I can’t even blame those people. Honestly, I’m the same way for the most part. One of the reasons is because I acknowledge that a lot of young people use Game Maker, and they expect positive feedback from the public the way that their Mother gave it to them.

And I’ve noticed a lot of Game Maker users just make quick half-assed games with hardly any gameplay value in it, then release it to the public and usually expect positive feedback, and take any sort of criticism as an insult, instead of taking it as a valuable note from one of their players that they can keep in mind for next time.

Note to the majority of Game Maker users: Please, raise your standards.

I would like to clear a few things up regarding IndieGo, as it has already been mentioned we did indeed have a partnership that was legitimate with YYG. They provided us with prizes to offer in competitions within our first issue and they also provided ideas about what we should include. In return we gave them advertising within the magazine. We never claimed that this partnership was anything else or greater, any other comments made about this are simply opinion.

The next thing I would like to do is to clear up my own name here, I was the original manager of IndieGo from July 2011-October 2011. I created the basis for the magazine and got us into a position where we had created two magazines and had people in place to make the third issue far superior. Very quickly IndieGo grew into a company with around 12 employees and I managed to keep on top of everything. Unfortunantly I was then getting into exam season with my final year of studies and I could not provide the hours to keep up the maintance of the business. So any rumours or claims that I “Had nothing better to do” are untrue. With hind sight I should have left the company in a better state but its decline following my departure was simply because of a lack of organisation within the new regime.

I felt the above need making clear as most of these claims make me sound like some sort of lazy/lying manager when I all ways had the companies best interests at heart. In the Summer the original team I created in July last year will be working
on a smaller magazine project whilst we all have time out for the holidays, and I hope that people will not judge us purely on our what has happened in the past.

Thanks,
Oliver Atkins