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    in Comment, Tutorials

    MarkUp: Effective screenshots

    You may feel that taking a screenshot is easy, and indeed it is, but a lot of the screenshots I see promoting games at the GMC and on sites devoted to gamemaker games fail to follow even the simplest of rules to make your screenshot effective. There are a number of factors determining the effectiveness […] More

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    Exploiting the GM market

    No not an article examining the ethics on genetically modified food production, instead a post taking a look at the people who use gamemaker and their collective commerical value. The GMC is valuable. 48,183 members are valuable – sure this is far from the biggest forum on the Internet but for a company wanting to […] More

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    in Comment, Distribution

    How do you judge the success of a game?

    One of the questions I have pondered for a while is how to judge the success of a game. Many people will think this is all to do with the number of downloads achieved or the number of 10/10 ratings they are given, however to me this is just wrong. Downloads do not really account […] More

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    in Comment

    YoYo Accounts Overdue

    YOYO GAMES LTD failed to submit its accounts for 2006 to Companies House which were due on 12/11/2006. For those of you who are unaware Companies House is the UK’s official register of companies. And yes, before you ask this is the right YoYo Games. More

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    in Comment, Reviews

    MarkUp Issue 4 – A review

    As I mentioned a few days ago the fourth issue of MarkUp has now been released. I know many of you will already have downloaded it. At 24 pages it is the largest edition to date and included a review of the commercial game Heroes of Might and Magic V (not made in gamemaker). I […] More

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    Dissociation

    Looking at gmlscripts.com following a suggestion from Leif902 brought something back into my mind. Dissociation. Dissociation: describes the disconnection or lack of connection between things usually associated with each other. At the bottom of every page of the GMLScripts website there is a line which reads GMLscripts.com is not affiliated with Mark Overmars, The Game […] More

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    in Comment, Reviews

    It’s happened…

    One and half months into GameMaker Blog and it looks like it has finally happened.  I knew it probably would, it was just a matter of when. Someone has taken offence to my comments. The recently released 4th issue of MarkUp included a re-run of an article first seen here on Game Maker Blog, a […] More

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    in Comment

    Why you shouldn’t add a forum

    Personally I think adding a forum to your website is one of the biggest mistakes you can make. A blog post by Grego advising people on how to create a half decent forum, if they insist on having one, reiterated many of the points I had spinning around in my head. There is no point […] More

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    Please help me steal gamemaker

    A post on the GMC: I dont know why i am doing this,and im probably gonna get done in real bad because of it but…can i have some1’s Activation/Registration key/code ?????(PM me) You don’t say,…. (Topic has been deleted from the GMC) More

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    Slow server is a feature of Freewebs

    From the recommendations topic in the Distributing Games forum at the GMC: FreeWebs Name: FreeWebs URL: http://members.freewebs.com/ Hosted URL: Subdomain Space: Initial 40MB, can request up to 100MB on free account. Bandwidth: up to 500MB of user bandwidth per month File size limit: unknown, but I think it’s none Upload options: Browser Adverts: One FreeWebs […] More

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