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    YoYo to endorse Obfuscator?

    As you may know I am disappointed that YoYo Games have not released a patch to enable users of Game Maker 7 to protect their games from the widely-known-about decompiler. Despite this it looks like they may will endorse the obfuscator project started by GMC member Schreib. “This project is not officially supported by neither […] More

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    GM Obfuscator

    And the decompiler drama continues. This time with a GM Obfuscator, which obviously obfuscates Game Maker files. Keep in mind that this doesn’t prevent decompilation. But anybody who will decompile your game will have a hard time making sense out of it. What’s your opinion? More

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    On Decompilers

    You may have noticed that despite all the talk of decompilers elsewhere recently GameMaker Blog has remained a decompiler free zone. Well, I can’t contain myself any longer so here are a few questions explaining what the situation is. What is the decompiler? At the end of January a program was released that enables anyone […] More

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    YoYo to go Instant Play only

    YoYo Games planned to do away with the download option on their website, and instead only allow games to be played via their “InstantPlay” technology. Another reason to avoid YoYo it seems. Fortunately other people agreed that this was not what they wanted, forcing Sandy to respond: “What I’m now proposing to do is add […] More