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The long closed Tutorials and Examples forum at the Game Maker Community is set to re-open soon according to a forum moderator.
New posts in the forum, which previously enabled GameMaker users to post “good, clear, concise and efficient tutorials and well documented examples that can be of great use to other Game Maker users”, were [...]

UPDATE: The iframe has once again been removed, and GMC admin Chronic claims that “as far as he knows, YYG has applied the patch”.
…As of 9. September, 2008, 19:15 GMT, an malicious third-party iframe has once again been embedded on the Game Maker Community (visit at your own risk).
The iframe appears to exist only on [...]

The malware which had been inserted into the forum template at YoYo Games’ Game Maker Community via an iframe was finally removed yesterday.
Today GMC administrator Chronic announced that an encoded and harder to spot link to the virus had also been removed.
And for those of you that disagreed with my critisicm of the YoYo Games [...]

UPDATE: The situation is now over, and the iframe has been removed. Google will still list the GMC as a “malicious website” until they recrawl it.
Some users at the official Game Maker Community have today reported receiving warnings from their antivirus software or web-browsers when viewing the forum.
The alerts are triggered from an iframe which [...]

Or - yet another attempt to flog CDs of GameMaker created games.
The team/person behind the project have rather aptly decided to name themselves “Pure Evil Productions” - bound, I’m sure, to inspire confidence in both game makers and game players.
The plan is for 100 GameMaker created games to be sold on a CD, with each [...]

I was the first person to vote in the latest Cage Match. However I decided not to bother leaving a reply. Just thought I would let you know. The final score was Frozzd by 2DCube………………….73 votes, Robbie Swifthand And The Orb Of Mysteries by scream681…..83 votes.
The match was a close battle between Frozzd by 2DCube and [...]

I came across a preview of the imaginatively titled Monkey Island 5 at the Game Maker Community. The game is being built to demonstrate the AGEGaM (Adventure Game Engine for Game Maker) which was made by its creators.
I was interested in this for two reasons - first because I loved the first two original [...]

After announcing back in April that the popular Game Maker Community “Cage Matches” would return Ablach Blackrat has finally set the date for the start of the first match - Saturday July 26th.
“So long as there are no other problems that Cage Match will return this Saturday, July 26th. I’m actually on a day trip [...]