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    in Community Links

    Mid-week Community Links

    Game Maker community site Roket Games is to close at the end of the month. The site didn’t succeed in attracting enough traffic, members and games for the site to be worthwhile to continue running. The Roket Games game integration system will be made open source. YoYo’s Mike Dailly has a blog, titled The life […] More

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    in Development, GameMaker for Playstation

    Game Maker for PSP – Second Video

    YoYo Games have released a new video showing the progress of porting the Game Maker runner to PSP. As in the first video the demonstrated game is Chad Chisholm’s Skydiver. There was also some news on the process for getting created games onto the PSP. “PSP games will have to be submitted to YoYo games […] More

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    New Magazine: GMAG

    Grabeorama has released the first short issue of GMAG which he will “strive to make a bi-weekly magazine”. Issue 1 .zip download The first article is a preview of Grabeorama’s upcoming game Shoot a Shape 2 for which there is a playable demo.  Next up is a brief piece about Game Maker for PSP with […] More

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    in Competition

    IndiePub Games $100,000 Independent Developer Competition

    IndiePub Games, formerly known as 2BeeGames, are holding their third game design competition. The prize fund has substantially increased from early competitions with the re-branded site now offering $100,000 along with a publishing offer for the first placed game as well as smaller cash prizes (see below). IndiePub Games contest prizes: The Grand Prize winner […] More

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    in Uncategorized

    Game Review – Affenitaet (Team Schachtelgeist)

    Affenitaet was developed by some German guys but don’t worry; you can switch the language to English once you start the game to experience the full pleasure of this very good game . The platformer gives you control of what I assume is a monkey (it’s brown and waves it’s arms a lot) and tests […] More

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    in GameMaker Media, Interviews

    GMIndie Podcast 2 – Sandy Duncan Interview

    GMIndie have released their second Game Maker podcast – a 50 minute interview with YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan.  In the discussion, primarily between Brian Fetcher and Duncan, the future development of Game Maker, YoYoGames.com and the YoYo Games company are covered. As well as the first official mentions of devices beyond PSP Sandy also […] More

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    in Tutorials

    Tutorial – Stylistic Fake 3D

    A technique I frequently use in games is fake 3D. This may just be seen as a ploy for attention – “why use fake 3D when Game Maker has REAL 3D built-in right off the bat?” Well, there are advantages to it. It’s much easier to manipulate object depth manually. You can draw something ontop […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    Former DMA employees to invade YoYo’s new office

    Perhaps the worst kept secret at YoYo Games over the last half year is that they planned to open an office in Dundee. The first official announcement of the move came today with Sandy announcing that the currently none-existent YoYo Games HQ will move to Dundee “in the next few weeks”. Former DMA employee Mike […] More

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