It has been a year since the first (and only) release of Game Maker under YoYo Games Ltd. A year which has seen the rise of YoYoGames.com, plenty of registration problems and, as is so often the case with Game Maker related matters, a lot of controversy.
Timeline of YoYo Games Ltd
Oct 15th 2004: YoYo Games Ltd registered as a company
http://gamemakerblog.com/2008/01/02/yoyo-games-accounts/
Jan 26th 2007: Mark Overmars announces formation of YoYoGames
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/?showtopic=271847
Feb 2nd 2007: Registration at YoYoGames website starts
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=273301
Feb 28th 2007: GameMaker version 7 released
http://gmnews.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/game-maker-7-released/
April 27th 2007: First public beta of YoYoGames website
http://gmnews.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/yyg-site-released/
Sep 6th 2007: Instant play feature released along with 2nd version of website
http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=14
Sep 6th 2007: Commitment to “Game Maker 7 for the Mac”
http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=15
Nov 8th 2007: Winter Competition announced
http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=31
December 2007: “Vote for us” month
http://glog.yoyogames.com/?m=200712
Jan 10th 2008: Winter Competition results announced
http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=51
Jan 21st 2008: 10,000 games, 75,000 developers
http://gamemakerblog.com/2008/01/21/yoyogames-press-release-jan-21st-2008/
Feb 1st 2008: Ancient Civilisation competition announced
http://glog.yoyogames.com/?p=59
*sigh* Im still waiting for GM 7 for mac. Or will it be 8.0 that is for mac? Either way. i cant wait.
http://garion.gwplus.net/2008/02/yoyo-games-now-and-then/
I was only 4 days off 🙁