Public Game Maker 8 Beta “not far away”
June 28, 2009
Sandy Duncan has revealed that a “GM 8 Beta is not far away….”. The statement was made in a response to a question by Polish student Piotr Gnys on Twitter.
A preliminary list of features for Game Maker 8 was only revealed a couple of days ago so the news may come as a surprise to some.
Then again it all depends on your interpretation of ‘far’. The latest official word on a planned release date is “during or after the summer” given by Mark Overmars in March. Unlike the beta versions of the C++ runner and Game Maker 7 for Mac which were released to a small private group of testers Sandy has said that the Game Maker 8 beta will be public.
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Post before me why don’t you James! 😛
Seems like “not far away” means a few minutes ago.
@gnysek Thanks. I have updated the post to reflect this.
@gnysek Yes that is it. I was able to translate it.
@gnysek ah 🙂 Not sure how I missed that I was on gmclan the other day reading the interview you did with Sandy in March.
Awesome.
UPDATE: Beta will be Public !!!
You talking about this one: http://gmclan.org/index.php?czytajart=57 ?
I can send an original english version if anyone want, but it’s a bit old now…
Not just a student, but also a Polish Community Admin ( http://gmclan.org ) 🙂
I’d think that it’d be ready by, November. Around there. The beta, obviously sooner.
If they release GM8 around Christmas time, which they could happen, they could get a few sales for Christmas.
Because who doesn’t want a GM8 key for Christmas 😉
But maybe that’s looking into the future to much.
Either way, I hope a public, or private beta test is SOON – as long as I’m in the group of testers of GM8. 😛