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    Magazines: Game Maker’s Digest 9 and indie(Magazine) 4

    Issue 9 of Game Maker’s Digest, the first to be published since last July of last year, has been released [left-click only download]. Announcing the release on indie(News) the magazine creator Brian Fetcher explained that “this issue didn’t contain as much content as was hoped. A combination of YoYo Games and real life issues got […] More

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    2011 Game Maker Predictions: 6 Months On

    At the start of the year we conducted our annual prediction poll in which 7 proposals about the future of Game Maker were put forward to vote on. 170 readers took part and indicated which they thought would occur during the year. Now, halfway through what has already been an eventful year in the development […] More

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    Game Maker’s Digest to return “this summer”

    For the majority of 2011 we have had no producing GameMaker magazines until the recent launch of indie(Function). However, Game Maker’s Digest will apparently be “returning this summer” according to a very short email sent to forum members last night. Game Maker’s Digest produced 8 weekly issues around this time last year and is run by […] More

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    250 Indie Games You Must Play – Several Developed with GameMaker

    Several games developed with GameMaker are featured in 250 Indie Games You Must Play published last month. The 250 Indie Games in question have been selected by Mike Rose one of the editors at IndieGames.com.  The chosen games are divided into 3 sections, first come 120 free desktop based games, followed by 80 free browser based […] More

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    Community Links

    GameSalad, a Mac-only easy iPhone game creation tool, has added support for HTML5.  HTMLGrind, VentureBeat We are yet to see a working example of a GameMaker created HTML5 game so can not be sure how its performance will compare with a PC, iOS or Android GameMaker game.  At the Scirra Forums some benchmarking tests have […] More

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    Project-W Wins Creative Game Challenge

    The puzzle game Project-W has won the €1,500 grand prize in the Creative Game Challenge. As well as the grand prize a further €6,000 in prizes were up for grabs for shortlisted games in the game development competition for Dutch high school students. Project-W is a platform based game in which flooding must be prevented […] More

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    GameMaker 8.x Uploads Only at New YoYo Games Website

    A muddled YoYo Games blog post has today provided a few more details about the proposed new website. GameMaker must appeal to more serious developers Publishing games will showcase the potential of GameMaker Need to shed reputation of being a “kids play site” The current YoYo Games website will be kept and fixed – how […] More

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    indie(Radio) and indie(Magazine) second releases

    Issue two of indie(Magazine) was published Sunday. This second release, a week after the first, uses a much improved design created by Jack Brockley. The magazine has a brief news section, an interview with Flashpunk user Rolpege (which also appears in the radio show), and a Flashpunk competition round-up. On the GameMaker side there are […] More

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