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    Community Links: Look at GameMaker HTML5 Alpha, indie(Magazine) 11, Venbrux and Vlambeer

    Game Maker Community administrator Chronic has posted about his experiences using the closed Alpha version of GameMaker HTML5 at the forum.  YoYo Games’ Russell Kay has been answering users’ questions in the same topic. Issue 11 of indie(Magazine) was released yesterday (5.4MB .pdf). This latest edition includes reviews of the top 3 games from the recent GMC GameJam and an […] More

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    Construct 2 Licence Prices Revealed: Free – $255

    Yesterday Scirra launched the licensing programme for their Construct 2 HTML5 game maker. There are three versions of the software. The free edition places limits on the number of resources that can be used within a game and restricts access to certain features. The Standard ($65) and Business ($255) packages remove most of these restrictions. […] More

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    Play Remaddening and They Need to be Fed in GameMaker HTML5

    YoYo Games employee Andrew McCluskey has posted online the first publicly playable game created using the HTML5 version of GameMaker. R5Maddening is a version of Remaddening created using an early build of GameMaker HTML5, which is currently in closed alpha. Update: A HTML5 version of Jesse Venbrux’s They Need to be Fed is also available […] More

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    Community Links: Ludum Dare 21, Pricing and Focus of GameMaker, GameJolt indie(Function) Contest

    Ludum Dare 21 is currently under way, the indie game creation contest and jam runs until the end of this weekend with the theme “Escape”.  Entrants using GameMaker include FolisDev and NaturallyMade, a longer list can be found here.  The site, featuring development blog post from those taking part, is currently experiencing some difficulties due […] More

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    GameMaker HTML5 Pricing Revealed – $199 (or $99)

    YoYo Games will sell their HTML5 GameMaker product for $199 (£120, €140)^. A $100 discount is available to those who purchase during the beta period which, anticipated to start in September, is just weeks away. This means that active GameMaker users will be able to pick up a copy of GameMaker HTML5 for $99. Writing […] More

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    RekameMag – Issue 4

    Andrew McCluskey recently released the fourth issue of his GameMaker magazine RekameMag. Download 7.8MB pdf: Dropbox Host-A The Flaws of Ratings explores the lunacy behind numerical based rating systems commonly used to review and compare games.  In the end everything is subjective and the article concludes that numbers should be taken with a big pinch […] More

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    New Game Maker Community Theme

    YoYo Games have updated the default forum skin at the official Game Maker Community.  The new, much darker, theme is pretty much a complete overhaul and features a grey top navigational bar similar to that introduced on the main YoYo Games website last month. More

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    indie(Magazine) Issue 10 – “Hiatus”

    The tenth issue of indie(Magazine) has today been released.  This means the magazine has now released the same number of issues as Game Maker’s Digest. The magazine starts with a three page round up of indie gaming news before 3 GameMaker games are reviewed. The games are Helicopter Hero in which you fly around a […] More

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    Community Links

    57 games were made and submitted in the recent 3rd GMC GameJam. You can vote for your favourite games up until 13th August. Issue 8 of indieMagazine [pdf] was released earlier this week. The company behind the Unity Game Engine has secured $12 million in funding from existing investor Sequoia and Chinese and Singapore based […] More

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    YoYo Games Launch Tech Blog

    YoYo Games have launched their promised “Tech Blog” [rss] which will give GameMaker users an insight into the workings and development of the software. The first post, written by Mike Dailly, focuses on the upcoming HTML5 version of GameMaker which recently had a private alpha release. Mike writes that YoYo Games “hope to release some […] More

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