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The website of GMKing, the creators of MarkUp, is currently unavailable due to a DDoS attack. Downloads of the recently released MarkUp 14 remain unaffected however.

The 14th issue of the MarkUp game development magazine has been released. At 54 pages in length it is over twice as long as April’s issue 13 and also sports a brand new red colour scheme.

Download MarkUp 14:

• High Quality pdf
• Low Quality pdf

Inside:

• Exclusive 6-page preview of the full version of 65M +1 BC
• “Viscerality” (how to suck people into games)
• Making lists with local arrays
• Expanding GameMaker with .NET
• A bumper “The Making of….”, this issues game is 9 pages of Falling Troy
• Plus of course regular features such as script and extension of the month, MarDar, game reviews and interviews

After making their Instant Play plugin compatible with version 3 of Firefox I don’t expect YoYo will be pleased to see that there has been a new version of Firefox released - version 3.0.1.

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Today’s “glog” post brings news: the long-awaited C++ runner is apparently entering “very private beta”. And the obligatory YYG rant: they actually got something done!?

Bad news on the Mac front, though:

On the other hand we’ve hit a barrier with teh [sic] Lazarus toolset on the Mac version and made very  little progress since I last updated you.

Oh, and something else to discuss about:

We’ve really done this work as a start of our program to have Game Maker apps running on other platforms.

Begin the speculation?

“We have decided to release the website earlier then episode 4 because we are having some more delays, and we thought you would like to know what’s going on and of course see the brand new site“

At least they have finally released something! Along with the new website, they have also updated the look of the forum to a more welcoming design. Even though it does still remain very empty.

The latest news on Ep. 4 is ‘Danny’s external hard drive has failed and he is working hard to recover the video.’

I personally would have preferred to see a new episode rather than them spending time on a new website and ‘administration panel’.

Lets hope the Episode Four isn’t far behind and that it gets even more hits than Episode Three.

Finally.

Sandy:  “My apologies for the prolonged delay in getting this done.”

YoYo Games’ Sandy Duncan has announced that a fix for their instant play feature to make it compatible with FireFox 3 will be released “July 15th midday (UK time)” - almost a month after the new version of the browser was made available for download.

Were they spurred on by the recent open letter from Connor Wilkins? Either way we will have to wait and see if everything is ready and working by midday.

GameMaker Community member Dr. Watz0n has posted an open letter to YoYo Games on his blog.

The letter states his frustrations with the lack of updates provided by YoYo Games and the broken promises that they have made to users of their GameMaker software. Read more…