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    Two Game Maker games in with a chance of $10,000

    Two games created in Game Maker are in the final of the $10,000 2BeeGames competition. Although the top prize is chosen by the contest organisers rather than the public there is a prize of $5,000 for the game that receives the most votes and $2,500 for the runner up. The third round of voting, which […] More

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    Sorry

    Yesterday a post was made on this site which claimed to show a leaked screenshot of Game Maker 8. The image supplied was clearly not genuine and I would have thought this would be blatantly obvious to anyone viewing it.  Therefore I was extremely disappointed to logon this morning and see that our latest article […] More

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    Kwiklook Magazine discontinued

    Darren Poole’s Kwiklook magazine has been discontinued after 2 issues. He hints that he might turn the magazine into a blog: Okay. I’m sorry, but due to my recent laziness, I’ve decided to discontinue KwikLook. Once again, I have failed to keep a magazine running. I guess I was just asking too much of myself… […] More

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    Game a Week experiment and new GMC Moderators

    Using some of the “crazy Cactus design philosophy” Liveo plans to create a game a week for a year.  Some, but not all, of the games will be made in Game Maker which Liveo will soon be teaching.  You can follow his attempt at his Imperceptive Muddle blog. Meanwhile there have been some changes to […] More

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    RTS + Christian SpeedGame Game Making Competitions

    A couple of game making competitions to tell you about this week. The first is GameMakerStation.com’s Real Time Strategy contest which runs for 3 and a half months and has $350 of prizes. The goal is to create a Real time strategy game with the following: Your Soldiers (Modern or Medieval) Enemy Soldiers (Modern or […] More

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    GMCG: The long and winding road

    It has been over a month now since the Game Maker Community Game has begun, and for those who are entering concept fresh it may seem like there is very little to show for the Herculean effort that has taken place. However, the deceiving lack of anything concrete belies the sheer amount of developmental work […] More

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