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Bye-Bye GameMaker Blog?
YoYo Games decided to mention the release of GameMaker magazines (GameMaker Tech 2 days late). I must admit I am a little confused following the merger of The YoYo Games and Mark’s blog. The result appears to deliver a strange mix of YYG updates, GameMaker tips and requests to GameMaker users – and now apparently […] More
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YoYo and the Community
Since appearing on the Game Maker scene at the start of 2007 YoYo Games have faced criticism from certain members of the community. Most of this criticism is about poor customer service and problems with the Digital Rights Management that is used to protect Game Maker 7. More
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Game Maker Magazines
In the past few months we have seen the launch of a couple of new GameMaker magazines. First there was Mattthew_H’s Game Maker Magazine which released its first issue in mid-February and its second in mid-March. At the end of March we then saw the first issue of GMFetch magazine emerge with just four pages […] More
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What next at the GMC?
Recent days have seen YoYo Games truly communicating with its community for the first time since it came into existence. We’ve had an upgraded forum with a new skin, frank admissions of YoYo’s shortcomings and the re-introduction of post counts. On top of that I am now frequently seeing Mark Overmars and Sandy Duncan online […] More
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YoYo Games Accounts
Have you ever wondered how much YoYo had in the bank at the end of 2006, or perhaps who the shareholders and directors are? Me neither, I’d much prefer to have the figures for 2007 which is, after all, when they were founded isn’t it? Actually no (more on that later). A trip to Companies […] More
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Quantity is Good
In a message on his blog Mark has reiterated the fact that YoYoGames is for all Game Maker made games and not just the best as the total number of games on the YoYo website exceeded 10,000. This responds to some criticism on the GMC where some people have come up with the crazy idea […] More
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GameMakerTech Exclusive Mark Overmars Interview
GMTech have announced “MAJOR EXCLUSIVES” at the GMC. The only exclusive I could find was an interview with Mark Overmars “this is a huge exclusive, as the only other magazine or GM service he has done an interview with was GMDM (quite a few years back), “ Take that MarkUp. More
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GameMaker Book
Haven’t brought “The Game Maker’s Apprentice: Game Development for Beginners”, Mark Overmars and Jacob Habgood’s book? No, neither have I. If you are interested take a look on Google books. Obviously the whole book isn’t on there but it will give you a good idea of what the book is like. Related GameMakerBlog article: Free […] More