If you are not from a country where the predominantly spoken language is English you may prefer to visit an unofficial localised Game Maker forum. About a year ago I wrote a post listing the membership numbers of various Game Maker websites and I included a section on none-English forums.
As that is now a little out of date and because I have come across more forums I have decided to create a new list. Since last year the Nederlandse Game Maker Community has more than doubled in size, new forums have been added to the list, some forums have seen a decrease in membership and some (Japanese) are currently down for maintenance.
If you know of any foreign language game maker forums that are not listed below please post them in the comments so they can be added to the list.
Dutch/Nederlands
Nederlandse Game Maker Community – 7,000 members (has doubled in a year).
(Game Maker Off Topic – 600 members)
Spanish/Español
Comunidad GM – 6,500 members
Polish/Język Polski
Game Maker Polska – 4,800 members
Czech and Slovak/Ceský Jazyk and Slovenský Jazyk
Velkej Chytrak – 2,300 members
Russian/РуÑÑкий Ñзык
GM-Rus – 1,200 members
Форум ‘Russian Game Maker’ – 600 members
Red System Game Maker Community – 400 members
HellRoom forum – 200 members
German/Deutsch
Game Maker Domäne – 1,600 members
French/Français
Game Maker Zone – 1,500 members
Forum CBNA – 1,300 members
Portuguese/Português
Game Maker Brasil – 800 members
Bulgarian/Bălgarski Ezik
GMCommunity – Bulgari – 600 members
Estonian/Eesti Keel
DM Gamez – 600 members
Finnish/Suomi
Game Maker Suomi – 500 members
Hungarian/Magyar
Magyar Verzió hivatalos fóruma – 400 members
Swedish/Svenska
Varg42 – 400 members
Turkish/Türkçe
Game Maker Turkiye – 250 members
Italian/Italiano
GameMaker Italia – 100 members
Japanese/æ-¥æœ¬èªž
Game Maker Japan – currently offline due to maintenance/hacking
@Blue, wow coincidence: I was about to post the same but you were just 6 hours earlier (and the reply before that is months ago)!
Dutch GameMaker Community: 10730 members now =D
Russian Game Maker (and others game creation system) community – http://gcup.ru/load/2-1-0-1 (1,600 users)
Yeah, GMClan got in 3rd place! I’m so proud of us! 😉
@Blijbol Thanks for that. Is interesting to see the graph of the member count as well.
Damn, I didn’t know a Turkish one even existed! Thanks for the find.
I’m sorry to disappoint myself, but I don’t think we actually doubled the member count in a year. Simple Machines Forum appears to count non-activated accounts on the statistics page, but it does not count these towards the total member count.
Here’s a visualization:
http://www.jeroenvandergun.nl/websites/statistieken/leden
Anyway, I didn’t know the Spanish were that close to us.
Game Maker Polska must be two,got 4,800 users but 216,598 posts.
I just placed them in descending order by highest member count per language thought that was better than just a random listing.
But on post count Polska is just behind Nederlandse 🙂
@Simon Donkers
Added
Since you’ve mentioned a few smaller forums I think it’s useful to also note http://www.gmot.nl/. It’s a spin-off from the Nederlandse Game Maker Community, and it happens to be run by the same administrators.
Good to see the Dutch are still first :). Not that there can ever be any doubt about that :P.
good to see that the dutch are first, great forum!
Quite a few websites there Phil.
Most I didn’t even know of. Surprised however to see some with so many members.