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GMC Moderators Neglect Infected Program?
A Game Maker creation, released under the ‘Tools & Applications’ section of the Game Maker Community, was not been dealt with by staff at the website for several days despite alarm from users at the forum. “Easy Ragdoll v1.0” was published by GMC member Locknar, who released the program on the 7th of December, the […] More
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GMC Reviewers Choice Nearing End?
The GMC Reviewers Choice sub-forum launched as part of the main Game Maker Community during February of last year may be nearing an end, following apparent slowness with the acceptence of new reviewers and the flow of content. “Truth be told, because of the lack of input in this forum, we’re considering axeing it completely” [sic] […] More
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Fake Fred Fails – GMC attitude stinks
An immature GMC member has created an account with the username ‘FredFrederickson‘ which he was using to impersonate GMC global moderator FredFredrickson. This post is not written however to give attention to such stupidity of attention seekers, but instead to the attitudes of other community members including a moderator. After a good deal of confusion […] More
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Tutorials and Examples to return
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”, […] More
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GMC malware drama continues
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 […] More
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GMC Malware free
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 […] More
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Malware attack at the GMC
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 […] More
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100 Games in 1
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, […] More
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Robbie was too Swift
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 […] More
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Monkey Island!
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 […] More
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Cage Matches to resume on July 26th
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 […] More
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Sites that sell GameMaker games
The “Distributing Games” section of the Game Maker Community often contains posts where people are discussing their ideas to setup websites to enable GameMaker users to sell games they have created. Every now and again some of these ideas actually get past the drawing board and a website is actually set up. The latest such […] More