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    Annoying newbie trait (3)

    Annoying trait 3 Insulting the GMC rules because they don’t allow you to fill the forum up with team requests “That’s a retarded rule! Are they intentionally trying to discourage beginners or what? I wish you elitist developers didn’t lock your knowledge away from the rest of us! And quit acting like your better than […] More

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    FreeWebs Abuse

    People posting their website in the Web Site Announcements forum at the GMC are often met with a barrage of complaints about their choice of web-host, particularly if they have opted to use FreeWebs. Let’s take a look to see this in action at the GMC: Sheepdawg Games – the first response simply reads ‘>.< […] More

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    Issue 3 of MarkUp released

    Issue 3 of the MarkUp magazine has been released today. Details about the magazine and the contents of the May eddition are avalible on the MarkUp website, so my advice to you is go there and download the mag. My article on the importance of game manuals is on page 19. Enjoy 😉 Download: High […] More

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    This week’s review

    A quick look back at what has become of issues mentioned during the previous week on gamemaker blog. My first article has been included in the next issue of MarkUp gamemaker magazine, I’ve seen it in the final draft copy.  The magazine will be released at the begining of May.  And more of my content […] More

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    sPaM (PM spam)

    On Saturday morning I received my first unsolicited Personal Message at the GMC. It was from FullForceGames and was an attempt to get me to join their gamemaker team (I think), unless it was some crafty way to try and increase traffic to their website. Here is the PM in full: Hi, we are starting […] More

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    YouTube gamemaker game trailer

    I was pleasantly surprised and impressed to see that GMC member Dinsdale has made use of YouTube to deliver a trailer for his Lander Remix game. The 1 minuite trailer has been viewed around 20 times, and shows a useful and modern promotional technique that can be used to promote games. I expect that most, […] More

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    Clone forums suck

    A couple of days ago I came across an excellent article by GMC member and fellow British blogger and moaner Grego on the subject of clone forums. These “Wannabe Forums” as Grego calls them really drive me insane too. Going back a few years to when I was using gamemaker the first time these forums […] More

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    Fact: Most gamemaker magazines fail

    Continuing my search for gamemaker magazines I came across a site called omgili, which seems to steal, *cough*, I mean archive, the content of a number of forums. The topic, of which the GMC original appears to have been deleted, starts when a member introduces his proposals for a magazine devoted to gamemaker, only to […] More

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    New GMers jumping in at the deep end

    One of the first rules of game creation is don’t be too ambitious, especially when you are working on your first game. My first gamemaker game was a space-invaders inspired game of around 1MB in size, which was created at least 4 years ago, possibly more. The download link doesn’t work anymore as I haven’t […] More

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    Gamemaker Magazines

    Yesterday I submitted my first article to GMking’s MarkUp magazine. Since returning to the gamemaker community this month I have taken a look at the magazines on offer for the community. When I was last using gamemaker Morpheous’s GMData magazine had published its fourth issue, however the fifth issue was never made. The only magazines […] More

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