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    IndiePub Interview with Dustforce Creators

    We’ve been trying to arrange to get some questions answered by Woodley Nye and Lexie Dostal, creators of Dustforce. In the meantime here is a short video interview they gave to IndiePub games after being announced as winners of the $100,000 grand prize. More

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    YoYo Games Competition 6 Winners Announced

    YoYo Games’ sixth competition based on the theme of “Discovery” officially wrapped up today with the three winners announced. After approximately one and a half months of judging, the three winners were decided on after thorough examination by the YYG judges. The winners are as follows: First Place ($1000): The Hive by titusthreex Mysterious disappearances […] More

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    Game Maker Games on Android?

    A recent topic at the Game Maker Community asks whether “Yoyogames had put any thought into developing a port for Android”.  Thought, definitely.  Work, no idea. After iOS Android is the next logical step, and YoYo Games aren’t exactly hiding their intentions. In a tweet from his now deleted Twitter account Sandy Duncan wrote “If we can […] More

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    Recent GMC Improvements

    Over the past couple of weeks there have been several low key, but beneficial, changes made at the Game Maker Community. Takagi created a pinned topic in the Work in Progress section of the forum in which a brief description and screenshots of upcoming projects can be posted. The topic is not meant for discussion […] More

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    Game Review – Tower 3 (orse ost e7 o)

    Tower 3 by orse ost e7 o What starts off as a peaceful valley scene doesn’t last long.  In Tower 3 the tranquil highlands have been transformed into a war zone as you must defend your side of the valley from a variety of incoming tanks and later aircraft. More

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    Dustforce wins $100,000 Grand Prize in IndiePub Contest

    Acrobatic puzzle platformer Dustforce (trailer) created by Woodley Nye and Lexie Dostal has been awarded the $100,000 Grand Prize in IndiePub Games’ latest game development contest. The results of IndiePub Game’s third major competition were announced at GDC Online in Texas. Dustforce was the only Game Maker creation to make the final of the competition […] More

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    Finalists of YoYo Games Competition 6 Announced

    Fifteen finalists have been announced in YoYo Games’ sixth, discovery themed, Game Maker contest. The ‘celebrity’ judges have also been announced and consist of community administrators, Jesse Venbrux, Dave Jones (Realtime Worlds) as well as YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan and Game Maker creator Mark Overmars. Finalists: YoYo by Bagdaddy Games Cleft by Kinta* 5 […] More

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    in GameMaker Media

    GMTalk Game Maker Podcast – Episode 4

    After a four month summer* break Andrew McCluskey, Jack Brockley and myself are back with a fourth episode of the GMTalk Game Maker podcast, recorded Sunday.   We were joined for the 54 minute show by Josh Conley and Game Maker decompiler author Zach Reedy. The main topic covered in the show is the Game Maker 8 […] More

  • in YoYo Games

    YoYo Games and GMC down earlier

    For a period of about four hours last night (from 1:30 BST) the Game Maker Community was unavailable.  Wade McGillis also reported that the main YoYoGames.com website was down. This morning both are back online but it appears that the site is being restored from a backup – a process which has not yet been […] More

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    More from Mike Dailly on Game Maker’s future

    Mike Dailly has posted a follow up to his earlier post on the Game Maker runner on his personal blog. Once again I fully recommend you read the full post but to summarise starts by asking for patience from Game Maker users. He states that the reason runners are being developed for multiple different platforms […] More

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