GameMaker Blog

A promising new website, the G3d 3d Effects Database, has been launched. This innovative site hosts an array of different 3D Effects created by various artists/coders for GameMaker. It currently features just a little over ten effects but from the look of this site I can imagine this number will grow [...]

Back in January this year Stencyl, the currently under-development open-source game development engine, founded a Limited Liability Company to manage their project.
Speaking of the reasons behind the move Stencyl’s webmaster and Lead Web Programmer Stephen said…

CEO of YoYo Games Sandy Duncan has revealed some interesting information about the future of YoYo Games and GameMaker, not through his glog, but during an interview with ThatVideoGameBlog.
Sandy also provided the story behind the get-together of YoYo Games Ltd and GameMaker something I had not known previously.

ThatVideoGameBlog: What were some of the other factors [...]

Sandy Duncan has mentioned on his blog the possibility of making Game Maker games compatible with the iHavemoremoneythansense iPhone.
Apple’s recent release of an SDK for the iPhone has apparently provided YoYo Games with “lots of motivation to get on with having the runner ported to C++” which would be the first step required to get [...]

Broadcasting to the world a domain name you plan to register isn’t the brightest idea is it?
Not so when I am king of domains starting “GameMaker…” (GameMakerBlog.com, GameMaker.tv, GameMakerStream.com, GameMakerTV.com, GameMaker.es, GameMakerNews.com, GameMaker8.com). GameMakerSchool.com has been added to my list.
Some of you will probably think this was a harsh move on my half [...]

Three quick snippets of news from YoYo Games Ltd:
Sandy has quietly mentioned that YoYo plan to invest $5M into the Game Maker software and their website.
“we are planning to spend almost $5M on Game Maker and YoYo Games over the next 2 years. We’ve all been pretty successful in business so far, but not THAT [...]

Writing on PascalGameDevelopment.com, savage, working for SumoDigital (the company working on porting GameMaker) has written
The games are not the things are being ported, but the IDE and engine are. The IDE creates the game files these are then fed into the engine. The same game files works on both Win32 and Mac OS X ( [...]

I haven’t seen this at the YoYo blog yet, but this is a press release from YoYoGames (January 21st, 2008).
Finally we can see what YoYo think of themselves…
“10,000 games uploaded in 200 days represents a ground breaking achievement for YoYo Games, a start-up games company which looks set to shake up the booming casual gaming [...]