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    iOS Game Review – They Need to be Fed (Jesse Venbrux)

    The title of the game says it all.  They Need to be Fed by Jesse Venbrux is an interesting physics based platform game where you need to feed “insanely cute monsters”.  Although, it’s a little more then just that.  You control a little character and lead him into the monsters’ mouths.  To do that, you must jump […] More

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    GameSpark Game Maker Video Courses

    A website offering step-by-step Game Maker video courses has launched.  GameSpark has been developed by a company which runs game design and robotics camps so the people behind the site have experience teaching game design. The site claims to offer “Everything you need to make a game” and along with the teaching side also has […] More

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    Game Maker: A solution to growing fragmentation of the mobile games sector?

    It appears that YoYo Games are trying to encourage mobile application developers to switch to using Game Maker by promising cross-platform support. Android applications are written in Java, whilst Apps for the iPhone and iPad must be written using C, C++ or Objective-C.  With the recent release of Windows 7 Mobile increasing amounts of development […] More

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    Game Based Community Links and Game Maker Type Casting

    Banov last week won his Indie Kombat match by default when his competitor, Andrew Brophy, failed to complete his game on time. Vertigo Gaming plan to work on a “slower paced strategy/sim” game which they hope to publish on iPad through YoYo Games in 2011. Writing in the comments on his personal blog Mike Dailly […] More

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    Game Review – Crystal Wave (Johnny B.)

    Crystal Wave is a straightforward but deliciously well-balanced shoot-’em-up which should satisfy anyone fortunate enough not to be using a laptop mousepad. Oh, and it’s got a retro vibe to it. More

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    Mid-week Community Links

    Today is midway through the 2010 International App Development Conference & AppJam in Dundee. YoYo Games is an industry partner of the event. Mark Overmars is included in The Game Developer 50 published in the November 2010 issue of Game Developer magazine for his previous work on Game Maker.   According to the magazine the […] More

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    iOS Game Review – Maddening (Andrew McCluskey)

    You’ve probably heard of the popular Game Maker game for Windows madnessMADNESSmadness.  In the game you are a small black figure who is running away from a large, red wall that chases after you in a loop.  After that came REMADDENING where you did the exact same thing, but the wall and figure could be […] More

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    YoYo Game Store Base Line Spec Revealed

    YoYo Games have revealed the “Base Line Spec” to which games submitted to the YoYo Game Store must comply. There is a comprehensive list of features supported and those which are unavailable for Game Maker games to be able to run on iOS. A few quick points: Game Center support “No support for cameras, compass, […] More

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    YoYo Games: 50 Employees and £18M turnover in 2012?

    In an article on the Scottish Development International website relating to the Scottish Governments grant to YoYo Games more details are revealed about YoYo Games’ future plans. If the details of YoYo’s publishing process didn’t already seem ambitious enough there are plans to increase staff levels to 50 with a turnover of £18,000,000 (~€20M, ~$29M USD) in […] More

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