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    Resource: Status bar maker

    A good resource I came across recently was Simple Status, a website that can generate graphical status bars for those of you that insist on displaying the progress of development on your up-and-coming games in your forum signatures. Much neater than the usual ||||||||||||||s I hope you’ll agree. Gamemakerblog is online 😉 An example of […] More

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    in Comment, Websites

    Things Garion hates about gamemaker

    Garion’s first blog post in 2007 consisted of ten things he disliked about Game Maker Version 7.0 and the Game Maker Community. Many of the points I consider to be valid such as the intensive memory usage which gamemaker requires and the large minimum file size for the simplest of games which Garion demonstrates by […] More

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    Annoying newbie trait (5)

    Random, pointless and nonesensical topics with no logical explanation. “1 practice make a high quality game like cocktail contact eny number,…..” How useful, this contribution to the GMC is invaluable, as are English lessons. GMC Example More

  • in Comment, Websites

    A domain name does not make a site

    When I was using Game Maker in the 4.3 era few people had domain names for their Game Maker ‘team’ or resources sites. Now at the GMC it seems that almost every other gamemaker site has invested in a top level domain. There is still the high number of freewebs sites, and of course those […] More

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    in Comment, Distribution

    YouTube Trailer – Senseless War

    life cover buy to let mortgage home owner loans insure your house Following on from my post last month about the Lander Remix game which had a YouTube trailer I have since come across quite a number of games at the GMC who have created video trailers. So in true investigative journalist style, okay maybe […] More

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    in Comment, Distribution

    Announcing Game Maker Affiliation service

    Announcing the BETA of Game Maker Blog‘s Game Maker Affiliation service. Designed to make exchanging affiliate banners with other gamemaker sites quick and easy and to reduce the time taken to maintain links, graphics and search for new affiliates. This free service is currently in BETA, so register and help us make the service better […] More

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    Popularity of gamemaker

    I came across an article by Aussie Bill Kerr who was looking at the popularity of gamemaker compared to other ‘similar’ products out there, in particular the software available at squeakland.org It makes quite interesting reading as it compares various aspects of the programs and their communities, and suggests reasons why gamemaker comes out on […] More

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    Can I steal,…

    Can I steal images? No. Okay, Can I steal sounds? No. What a surprise and how unexpected. What did these newbies expect – “yes, sure you can rip and use graphics from any game, no problem – just put ‘sprites ripped from <game name>’ in the credits and you will be fine”. Just as I […] More

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    in Examples, Tutorials

    Screenshot formats

    What format should I save my screenshot as? The one vital rule: Not as a bitmap (.bmp) If you don’t know the differences between different image formats, and how data relating to the picture is stored you might want to check out this article on Wikipedia about the way bitmap files are stored. Using a […] More

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    Annoying newbie trait (4)

    After asking if the community needs another magazine… and being told NO Creating your own magazine which you freely admit “is [half filled with] just stupid random crap.” Related article: Fact: Most gamemaker magazines fail More

  • in Comment, Distribution, Free Software, Reviews

    Why you should include a manual with your game

    As featured in the May 2007 edition of the MarkUp Game Development Magazine How many times have you started to play a gamemaker game before realising that the programmers ‘forgot’ to include full instructions and a control map? Finding yourself playing a game for the first time without knowing what you are meant to or […] More

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