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    in Websites

    I Pity the Fools

    A quick round up of various April Fools’ themed stupidity that can currently be found on Game Maker websites. The GMC admins appear to have been busy authoring fake posts using various user accounts in a new “GMC Off-Topic” section of the forum. “The GMC has a new forum called GMC Off-Topic. Membership is by invitation […] More

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    in Community Links, Competition

    Game Maker on Wii? Comp05 Deadline. Grabeorama. Gazette sold.

    The deadline for submissions to YoYo Games’ handheld-game themed competition was last night (midnight GMT between the 30th and 31st, not 24-hours earlier as reported elsewhere).  In total there were over 500 entries, with approximately half uploaded during the last day of the three month contest.  It will take some time (and patience!) to play through […] More

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    in Competition

    Video: 25 Competition 5 Entries

    YoYo Games member Big Machine has created a video showing 25 of their favourite entries so far in YoYo Games’ fifth, handheld devices themed, competition. So far there have been over 250 entries. The deadline for submissions is now just a couple of days away – Tuesday March 30th at midnight GMT. Links to download […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    Softwrap used “mostly” for Payment Options

    “Once it’s cracked, it’s cracked. You can’t keep trying to stop them. We use DRM mostly to give payment options…[1]” – YoYo Games CEO. If you want to find a Game Maker 8 Pro crack online you can, it really isn’t hard so I amazed at the number of people that end up here looking […] More

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    in Blog News

    Game Maker Affiliation Rewritten

    Game Maker Affiliation, the free service which enables Game Maker related websites to easily exchange banner links with similar sites, has been rewritten in its entirety. I posted some details regarding my work on the re-write on my personal blog last weekend.   A quick summary of changes is below: Automatic detection of animated .gif banners […] More

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    in Uncategorized

    Overbyte Magazine – Issue 2

    RedChu‘s Overbyte Magazine which offers “byte sized content for your byte sized brain” is back with a second issue. After making a guest appearance at the end of the first issue, which resulted in much confusion amongst those on the YYG forums, NAL is back with a couple of articles including “Why using Game Maker […] More

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    in Community Links

    Mid-week Community Links

    I’ve noticed that in recent weeks the mid-week links have been getting less Game Maker related and more general with regards to indie games/game promotion. Cracked have posted a list of 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted. I don’t particularly think these are creepy or rocket-science but the article makes […] More

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    in Competition, Games

    Cactus’ Tuning wins $2,500 Nuovo Award at IGF

    “Noted independent developer Cactus [Jonatan Söderström] received the inaugural Nuovo Award for his abstract visual puzzle game, Tuning. The Nuovo Award honors “abstract, shortform, and unconventional game development which advances the medium and the way we think about games.” The Nuovo Award was judged by a separate, smaller juried panel of notable game and art […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo’s new CTO is former DMA employee Russell Kay

    YoYo Games have revealed the identity of their new Chief Technology Officer as former DMA employee and programmer of the original PC lemmings game Russell Kay. By sheer coincidence I was reading about the history of Lemmings just a few days ago (is a good read). Russell was responsible for the game concept and name […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo Hire CTO, Downtime Explanation, YYG Announcement Expected Tomorrow

    YoYo Games have hired a Chief Technical Officer in Dundee and will be making an announcement “indirectly” related to Game Maker for PSP tomorrow. Yesterday’s downtime which affected all YoYo Games services including the Game Maker Community was caused by “simple maintenance” which went wrong following a firewall conflict. Around 30 minutes of downtime was […] More

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