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    “Linked” Online Game Maker Highscores

    A new online highscores system for Game Maker has been launched. Linked which is part of the UpUrLoad file hosting website utilises 39dll to make it easy to maintain a global highscores table. Created tables can be viewed directly within your game (there is no need to launch a browser window when sending or retrieving scores). Scores […] More

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    The Issues behind “Community Game Projects”

    Across several Game Maker forums we have seen the creation of  “Community Game” projects. The most widely-participated in of these by far has been the “GMCG”, started by grimmjow. Other smaller-scale projects include NOD‘s still unnamed Game Project, NODs first game project which died and 64 Digits’ (now dead) game. Although the idea is plausible […] More

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    Some Questions about the YoYo Games Homepage

    I don’t think that the potentially lucrative space on the YoYoGames.com homepage is being put to its best use.  There is limited real-estate on the index page of what is a popular gaming site so surely it should be continually updated with fresh new content to entice people to play different games, discover Game Maker […] More

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    Mid-week Community Links

    Topic at the GMC asking about the possibility of Game Maker going open source. The debate seems somehow to have turned into a discussion about the differences (or lack of) between piracy and theft.  With regards to the original question NakedPaulToast puts it best as he so often does – people simply aren’t interesting in […] More

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    in GameMaker Media

    GMTalk Game Maker Podcast – Episode 2

    Andrew McCluskey, Jack Brockley, Noel Berry and myself have recorded a second GMTalk Game Maker podcast episode. In the 37 minute show we discuss the downfall of quality Game Maker media and experiences of collaborating in Game Maker team projects.  We also look back at the Game Maker entries in the recent GameJolt weekend Jam as […] More

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    GMLive’s 10th Show

    GMLive’s tenth live Game Maker radio show was hosted today and lasted half an hour. The date of the next show has not been announced as host Joshua is considering the possibility of a merge with GMIndie Radio to make a weekly show.  Producer Jono announced that he would be resigning from his position at […] More

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    Game Jolt Jam – Game Maker entrants

    Last weekend, indie game website Game Jolt hosted its first Jam. This differentiated from its competitions by dropping the competitive aspect and focusing on getting developers to share their work regularly and, in general, have fun doing it. Most participants set up Livestream accounts and broadcast live video footage of them working on their entries. […] More

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    Indie Game Mag – Issue 9 – Copyright

    Received an e-mail today advising me that issue 9 (March-April) of the commercial Indie Game Mag had been released and was available to download. One change since the last edition – they have changed their re-use message from a Creative Commons license that enabled anyone to freely share the magazine to a copyright statement.  As FredFredrickson commented […] More

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    GMIndie Magazine Issue 7

    The final issue of GMIndie magazine has been released.  Download PDF (1.5MB) To quote from the welcome message at the start of the issue “We are constantly working on multiple projects at once. It’s fun for the first few minutes. Then it gets tiring” – reminds me of something I may have mentioned last month. […] More

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    Social Games and Unity 100K

    Just two links to share this week: Casual gaming company PopCap have released the results (pdf) of their 2010 social gaming survey. If you like bar charts and tables, Farmville or are interested in this area of game creation it may be worth a look. Also may be interested in an article from the past: […] More

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