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    Game Maker Audcast – Episode 2

    I was lucky enough to have been given a preview of the second episode of GMKing’s Game Maker podcast, which this week features Zack (a.k.a darksys92 on the GMC) stepping in for Eyas. The main difference is that this second episode at 19 minutes is about two-thirds the length of the pilot which, I think, […] More

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    Unsolved but solved

    What in practise looks like a good idea can easily be misused, see here. It would make so much more sense if there was some method in place for either topic creators or mods to show which problems were solved or unsolved so that the unsolved problems get the attention they deserve instead of being […] More

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    Regarding YoYo

    I hadn’t quite got started in my rants about YoYoGames when I became aware of the MarkUp situation. This led me to reconsider opinions towards YoYo which had been on the verge of becoming less than friendly. YoYo (YYG) are a new company, they have only recently taken over the management and distribution of Game […] More

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    Introducing the Official Magazine of YoYoGames

    It may not be the official magazine of YYG, but it’s officialy endorsed by them,… It’s MarkUp. And it’s official. The moment has finally come. And it was a long time coming,… Congratulations to Eyas, Robin and everyone else at GMKing for all their hard work. Some stats*: Number of hints dropped in the past […] More

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    GMLScripts.com

    One of the sites I promised to take a look at quite a while ago now was GMLScripts.com. Each month a script from GMLScripts is featured in MarkUp, and the site was also suggested for mention by a reader of this blog. GMLScripts currently contains over 100 scripts for use in Game Maker, and the […] More

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    Giveaway! (all $20 of it)

    Today I received the go ahead I had been looking for from YoYoGames. Thanks to Clayton at YoYoGames Customer Support my wish to be able to offer a GameMaker Pro licence can now become reality. In case any of you are interested, buying a prize licence is as simple purchasing a normal licence from YoYo. […] More

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    Sophistication for beginners

    Stop Press! There is a genius at the GMC. A topic appeared a couple of days ago in the Community section entitled: “The Game Maker Community’s Members Are Not very sophisticated“. The member puts it well “Many are impolite and have a very sickeningly unsophisticated vocabulary. There are hardly any members with any artistic vision […] More

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    Quick Review

    Looking back at some of the recent posts on Game Maker Blog and what, if anything, became of them. It appears the GMC are playing catch up to the comments I made regarding criticising games in my post about rating the success of a game. YoYoGames have been featured more often than previously, perhaps because […] More

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    Listen to GMking

    GMking.org have released a pilot episode of their Audcast, that’s a podcast to you and me. At 31 minutes and 20 seconds it is quite a long pilot, or at least I believe so. The sound quality isn’t great but it was recorded from a Skype conversation over a distance of more than 6,000 miles. […] More

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    Customer Support

    My experience of customer support at YoYoGames. I initially contacted YoYoGames (YYG) via their helpdesk to ask about how I would go about offering a GameMaker Pro licence as a competition prize. After about 24 hours my message was accepted, I assume with manual approval, onto their helpdesk system and I was e-mailed details of […] More

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    Exams Over

    Totally off-topic and none Game Maker related but today I had my last exam.  Therefore I should have some time to catch up with my list of sites and games to review, so Game Maker Blog may be updated more frequently from this weekend. More

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    How not to promote your website at the GMC

    Marketing your site is quite obviously one of the most important aspects of running a website. Put simply, what use is a site without any visitors? The Game Maker Community lets members promote their sites in their forum signatures and by creating a topic about it in the Website Announcements section of the forum. What […] More

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