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    Sandy Duncan Interview – Coming Soon

    Earlier today I spoke with YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan and asked him about App publishing, Game Maker 8.1, Game Maker for Mac, the HTML5 runner and company itself. I was hoping to post a recording of our conversation here but Sandy asked that I instead publish edited transcripts.  I will do so covering various topics in […] More

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    Game Maker HTML5 Export – Addon for Pro Users

    Over the weekend more information has emerged about the recent HTML5 proof of concept video showcased by YoYo Games. Although at the time of the official blog post announcing the video YoYo Games had not yet decided how they would commercialise the Game Maker to HTML5 converter, yesterday evening Sandy commented stating “we have already […] More

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    New Indie Title Desktop Dungeons Sets Sights on IGFs Grand Prize

    If you’re anything like myself, you’ve looked around Yoyogames quite a bit and have found that the majority of games are very shallow, unpolished, or completely undeveloped.  Sure the spotlight occasionally features an interesting arcade title, but after an hour you want nothing to do with it. I have always been under the impression that […] More

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    Sync Simple – Android Game Review (Xeronix Works)

    Sync Simple is a 3D-view arcade shooter in which you fly through a colourful tunnel destroying invading aliens.  It is the latest Game Maker creation to be released on Android. Loading the app presents you with a snazzy animated menu which, for the first time in a YoYo Games title, offers an option to select your desired method […] More

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    Simply Poker Squares – Android Game Review (YoYo Games)

    Simply Poker Squares is the first YoYo Games title to appear on the Android Marketplace ahead of an iTunes release. The credits reference “Allan H” who created a Poker Squares game available at YoYoGames.com but there is no visual similarity between the two versions and the appearance of Simply Poker Squares is, as you would […] More

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    in GameMaker for Android

    Simply Poker Squares – Android Game

    YoYo Games have released their second free card game for Android. Simply Poker Squares is a follow up to Simply Solitaire which is their most popular, and only free title, on iPhone, iPad and Android. The aim of the game is to build the best poker hands you can both horizontally and vertically in a […] More

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    NakedPaulToasts’s Game Maker 8.1 Wager

    Prominent Game Maker Community member NakedPaulToast is running a wager at the official Game Maker forum betting that: “YYGs will release a GM Windows upgrade [public beta or complete] within approximately two months, let’s say on or before April 20, 2011 (GMT).” The “friendly challenge” was crafted in response to NPT’s frustration at the number […] More

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    Prison Ball – iPhone and Android Game Review (Desert Dog)

    Prison Ball is a loosely jail themed breakout game with 3D style bricks. Colourful blocks are arranged in a variety of shapes and patterns which can be destroyed by directing a ball towards them from a bat at the bottom of the screen. The iPhone and Android versions of the game are very similar to that available freely […] More

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    in Development

    GMare – Open Source Game Maker Room Editor

    Michael Mercado has released an early version of an open source alternative to the built in Game Maker room editor, GMare. Written in C# the editor features a zoom, tile fill and many other tile features. Admittedly this would have been much more useful if it was released months or even years back, given that […] More

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    in Games

    Mr Karoshi Links and Competitions

    There have been some delays with the Android release of Mr Karoshi but plenty of press around YoYo Games’ latest iPhone title. iPhoneGamerUK have posted a walkthrough of the first 20 Mr Karoshi levels. Though it is the later levels which are the hardest! In their review of the game touchArcade are critical of the […] More

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