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    GameMaker HTML5 in “closed Alpha build”

    YoYo Games earlier disclosed that ‘GameMaker HTM5’ will be released “this year” and recently announced that GameMaker HTML5 now has a closed Alpha build. We can review a product exported from this upcoming Game Maker version already at http://www.yoyogames.com, where the site now features a HTML5 version of its homepage animation replacing its ActionScript carousel […] More

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    YoYoGames Forums – Exploit Means Anyone Can Create New Forum

    An exploit at the official YoYoGames.com forum means that any registered user can create a new forum section. Opening the General Chat section of forums.yoyogames.com now reveals a number of unauthorised sub-forums. The creator of these sub-forums is not apparent but with themes including “Decompiled Games”, “Pornography” and “Ads” a mischievous forum member has been […] More

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    GameMaker created HTML5 Animation on YoYo Games Homepage

    The flash animation on the YoYo Games homepage has been updated so that, if your browser is compatible, a HTML5 animation will show instead. The new animation, which rotates through the various versions of GameMaker, looks and feels the same as the original flash version but has been created with the as yet unreleased HTML5 […] More

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    indie(Function) 6 with Uriel Griffin, iOS5 HTML5 Speed

    Uriel Griffin was the guest interviewee in this week’s indie(Radio) and indie(Magazine). Writing of his use of GameMaker for Mac Uriel states that “we’ve made around 2,500 dollars” from the Mac App Store. Presumably this “we” encompasses the total revenues which are split between original game developers such as Jesse Venbrux and Uriel who modifies […] More

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    Community Links: Jesse on Addictive Gameplay, Quote Unquote, Old Game-Maker Advert

    Jesse Venbrux is to give a talk entitled Creating addictive gameplay in They Need To Be Fed at the Casual Connect games industry event. Casual Connect takes place in Seattle next week – details. Quote Unquote have published two interviews with former GameMaker users. Charlie Ngo currently attends Digipen College in Washington whilst Noel Berry now focus on Flashpunk development. […] More

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    YoYo Website Changes Continue

    Since their new website was launched YoYo Games have been working on improving the information it contains. A news feed has been added to the frontpage, though the lack of a RSS icon on the site has led to a few people thinking that no such feed exists. An earlier error, where the site incorrectly […] More

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    Magazines: Overbyte Returns with 4th Issue

    The Overbyte GameMaker magazine has returned after 14 months absence because editor RC “miss[ed] writing things that people will actually read and hopefully enjoy”. > Download Overbyte 4 (left click only) The magazine starts with an “obligatory news” section which briefly covers the relaunch of both the YoYo Games website and Game Maker’s Digest magazine. […] More

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    indie(Radio) 5 and Game Maker’s Digest 10

    Episode 5 of indie(Radio) was hosted by Bret Hudson yesterday evening. In the first half of the show Noel Berry is interviewed and discusses his work with flaspunk including the engines he has released. Kya Suleyman then joins Bret to discuss the new YoYo Games website, a FlashDevelop beta, Game Maker’s Digest and HTML5 Game […] More

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    HTML5 GameMaker to have “Team Collaboration Feature”

    The HTML5 GameMaker page on the new YoYo Games website has recently been expanded to provide additional information about what will be the next new version of the software to be released. The page lists the following two features as being unique to the HTML5 version which I believe were not yet public knowledge: GameMaker […] More

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    Ninjammin Beat-Jitsu Review (iOS)

    To say YoYo Games has been pushing mobile game deployment in the past six months would be an understatement; they’ve been charging forward. Although every day developers have not yet been given the tools to publish on mobile platforms, such as iOS and Android, YoYo has been taking great games developed with Game Maker and […] More

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