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    Kirsty Scott is YoYo Games’ Community Manager

    Kirsty Scott has announced herself as YoYo Games’ Community Manager in a post at the YoYo Games blog. Kirsty also posted the first YoYo Games staff photo of Russell Kay, Sandy Duncan, herself and Mike Dailly (l-r in the photo below). The announcement wasn’t a surprise as looking back at my large collection of Game […] More

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    End of Week Community Links

    The latest issue of PC Powerplay Magazine has a section looking at the various game development tools which are available. Game Maker is one piece of featured software and there is also a brief interview with Auntie Pixelante. Download the pdf at UpUrLoad (left click only).  Via Shadow_Lancer. rcollet is looking for someone to design […] More

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    GameJolt’s Fifth Contest

    The Independent Gaming Community GameJolt has announced the theme of its fifth competition as ‘Indie Game Demake‘. Definition: An already released indie game (of your choice) that, instead of being remade and improved, is demade and simplified so as to seem like the version that would have been released at some point in time before the original […] More

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    RekameMag releases second issue

    The second issue of Andrew McCluskey’s RekameMag has been released.  Contributions from other Game Maker users (and Rebecca Clare Smith) are alongside those written by Andrew. Thankfully after a pain-inducing front cover in the launch issue the abstract design included in this issue has been toned down. Dan Fornace discusses approaches to multiplayer gaming, Andrew looks at the […] More

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    Future YoYo Games face-to-face meetings

    A glog entry earlier today by YoYo Games has highlighted a desire of the staff to hold a number of face-to-face meetings with regular Game Maker users to discuss improvements, desires etc. A poll included asks people to mention where they live (the basing of YYG in Scotland means most of the options are for […] More

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    €10,000 Creative Game Challenge Winners

    The winners of the €10,000 Creative Game Challenge have been announced. The competition was organised by Mark Overmars’ University of Utrecht and was open to individuals or teams of students in Dutch secondary level education. In total 67 games were entered with 11 being awarded prizes in both general and specialised categories such as ‘best design’, ‘most […] More

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    Game Maker Games $40 “The List” Competition

    Game Maker Games are hosting a Game Maker game creation contest with a twist.  Unlike other competitions, which traditionally have a theme or are open to any entries, entered games must incorporate elements from multiple unique themes listed by the competition organisers. 31 themes are listed and those entering can pick between any combination of […] More

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    Mid-week Community Links

    Many of the bugs reported so far by testers of the Game Maker for Mac release candidate have already been resolved. It’s nice to see these are actively being worked on as previously reported bugs in Game Maker and on the YoYo Games site have often not been fixed for long periods of time if […] More

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    Game Maker for Mac – “Final Release Candidate”

    YoYo Games yesterday released what they claim will be the final release candidate of their initial Game Maker for Mac product prior to a general release by the end of the month. The program is available to anyone using the following link:  http://appstore.yoyogames.com/downloads/gm4mac/Game_Maker.dmg (note the ‘appstore‘ prefix!). Discovered issues should be posted on the bug tracker […] More

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    Recently Featured: Remaddening, Dubloon, Rainy Day – Treasurehunt

    Our third look at games recently featured on YoYo Games.  All three had been online for at least a couple of months before being featured with Dubloon dating back about a year (though it has had a recent update). Dubloon by Banov (large download) [nggallery id=8] An excellent pixel art point-and-click pirate exploration RPG.  Explore ships […] More

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    End-of-Week Community Links

    If you preferred the old Game Maker Community theme and want it back Mike Deroche has created a GreaseMonkey script which mixes elements from the old and new designs. Pointed Games is an under-development online highscores system with a twist from Dangerous Dave. Good scores are rewarded with points that can be used to unlock other games […] More

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