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    GMIndie Podcast

    Yesterday was certainly a popular day for Game Maker media releases. As well as the two magazines GMIndie published a pretty good podcast discussing Game Maker issues. The show is just over an hour long and features contributors Brian Fetcher, Kevin, Jonathan Miller, Landon Podbielski and Bret Hudson discussing various game maker community topics. Issues […] More

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    New Magazine: Nikc-Nack

    Half an hour or so before the release of Overbyte Issue 3 a new Game Maker magazine chose an unfortunate time to launch their first issue (~1MB pdf link). Nikc-Nack’s Magazine is a Nikc-Nack Games Project, made to bring you the latest Game Maker news, scoops and reviews! The magazine features three game reviews, a […] More

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    Overbyte Magazine Issue 3

    Overbyte, the independent games magazine your mother would be ashamed of, has released its third, less silly, issue. In the main articles Jack Brockley takes a look at eight of the entries in YoYo Games’ fifth competition while Andrew McCluskey delivers some design tips you can use to give your game a more professional appearance. […] More

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    YYG Instant Play now Fx3.6 & GM8 Compatible

    After several months of community impatience (Game Maker 8 is four months old tomorrow, Firefox 3.6 several months itself), YoYo Games has finally updated their Instant Play engine to work for both. Internet Explorer should have its IP engine for Game Maker 8 up and running tomorrow, as reported by Sandy on the glog. However, […] More

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    GMIndie Plan 250-page Game Maker eBook

    GMIndie are working on an ambitious project to create a series of Game Maker eBooks – the first which will provide an introduction to the software scheduled for release in July 2010. The idea for a comprehensive tutorial series reminds me of Carl Gustafsson’s Beginners Guide to Game Maker Programming, a long unofficial introduction to […] More

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    YoYo Games Virus Scanner Defective

    As a quick warning, uploading games on YoYo Games currently appears to present you with the Virus Scanner account telling you (via the usual private message as well as an email notification) that your game has been deleted and an administrator informed due to a “virus having been found”. This has been affecting uploads for […] More

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    Two Interesting Approaches to Game Monetization

    An approach often used to monetize flash games is ‘game sponsorship’. This is where individual companies or flash game distribution websites fund (or buy) a game from its creator and then insert their own branding within the game. You have probably played many games where the logo of a free games website appears within the […] More

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    Stencyl Games Emerge

    The Stencyl game creation tool which has been in development for a couple of years has finally released 3 games which are fully playable within a browser that have been created using its engine.  The project, which no longer plans to be open-source, had been labelled vapourware by many as little had emerged publicly from the […] More

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    Mid-week Community Links

    IVGMU have posted an interview with Alexitrón. This is only their third interview with users of Game Maker in three months. More general confusion at GMIndie.  After apparently spending $150 to purchase a blogspot blog and having recently launched a scheme whereby they would pay their contributors, leader Brian Fetcher today posted on his forums […] More

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    GMIndie Magazine – Issue 8

    The seventh issue of this magazine was supposed to be the last before the release of a new publication, Game Developers Digest, which planned to focus on computer gaming in general and not just Game Maker. However an eighth issue (2.8MB pdf) has now been published which, at 18 pages, is double the length of […] More

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