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    Game Maker’s Digest 2 and GMag 3

    Two Game Maker magazines have today released copies. This morning GMAG published their third issue (pdf, left click only).  None of the content was of particular interest to me as I don’t think there is anything Game Maker related in it that I had not already seen besides a single game review. Much of the […] More

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    in Community Links, GameMaker Media, Interviews

    Mid-week Community Links

    GMVision’s Joshua Pedroza has interviewed the leader of Team SkyFire, Sokota, in his latest video released today (watch on YouTube). Team SkyFire have been working on their platformer stasis for over a year. After receiving criticism over the subscription-only policy of Game Maker’s Digest Brian has promised “NO more long annoying forum sign-ups to subscribe” […] More

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    Game Maker 9 to be written in C#

    Since its initial guise as the Animo 2D animation tool Game Maker has been written in Delphi, however GameMaker Blog can reveal that Game Maker 9 will be written in C# which is an object-oriented programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. As of Game Maker version 7 both the maker and runner sides of […] More

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    This Is Indie

    Evan McClane has relaunched his Independent Developer Magazine as “This is Indie”. Writing in the June 2010 issue he says “Independent Developer was a far cry from an amazing magazine, and This Is Indie hopes to become what Independent Developer never was.” In PDF format (left click only) the download is more than 40MB, so […] More

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    Game Maker Cryptic Crossword

    Fed up of seeing all these easy, small, badly-made and partly-irrelevant word puzzles in magazines and on websites? Here’s a little something I spent a couple hours on to hopefully alleviate that feeling. It’s a lovely big crossword, which is made up entirely of Game Maker-made games – around 60-65 of them. It’s difficult, but doable. […] More

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    GMIndie Launch Game Maker’s Digest

    GMIndie have released the first issue of their new magazine, Game Maker’s Digest.  It won’t replace GMIndie Magazine. The magazine, which is 40 pages long, features a wide variety of content starting with Game Maker news which refreshingly hasn’t just been copied and pasted from elsewhere.  Next up is an interview with Ablach Blackrat which […] More

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    Unauthorised Game Distribution

    YoYo Games user snowyowl yesterday blogged at Ludum Dare saying that he had discovered that his recent contest entry, Jump Pirate, was being distributed without his permission on the Romanian software index Softpedia. Other Game Maker games on the site include Karoshi and CrimeLife 2 both of which have been downloaded over 100 and  7,000 times […] More

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    Like YoYo Games Ltd?

    You can’t become a fan of YoYo Games Ltd but now you can join their official Facebook group. If you ever wanted to expose your personal Facebook account to Game Maker users now you can! The first thing posted on the group is a video showing one of the competition 5 runners up, Pixelry by […] More

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    Want to work for YoYo Games? Get to Dundee!

    YoYo Games will be one of at least fifteen companies present at the Game In Scotland video-games industry recruitment fair taking place in Dundee this Saturday. Donna Fordyce, project manager of Game In Scotland said “The videogames sector in Scotland has always been strong, but I don’t think many people are aware of just how […] More

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    Short Mid-Week Community Links

    Nikc-Nack has released a second issue of his magazine. Download (left click only) I am compiling a list of the best open-source Game Maker 8 games. Effectively any good quality game made in Game Maker 8 with a downloadable .gmk file will do.  Ideally games from a cross-section of genres will be included in order […] More

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    in GameMaker Media

    GMTalk Game Maker Podcast – Episode 3

    Andrew McCluskey, Jack Brockley, Joshua Pedroza and myself were briefly joined by Greyson Wright (RC) for the recording of a third GMTalk Game Maker podcast. We discuss the winning games and other high quality entries in the recent YoYo Games contest and the process for getting Game Maker games on PSP. Also mentioned is Mike Dailly’s blog, the […] More

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    in Development

    48 Hours of Game Maker Development in 5 Minutes

    A couple of weeks ago Xerus (Kyle Pulver) released a timelapse video showing the development of his island-defence game Gaiadi sped up to fit in under 5 minutes. The game was created for entry into Ludum Dare 17 which it won. Ludum Dare is the name given to a series of 48-hour game creation contests […] More

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