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    in Games

    Spelunky

    Derek Yu’s Spelunky (in Game Maker for PC and coming soon to xBox Live Arcade) has been attracting a lot of attention on Indie Gaming sites recently whilst remaining noticeably absent(??) from YoYoGames.com and the official Game Maker Community. Spelunky is a platform game in which you explore caves to collect treasure.  Each game is […] More

  • in GameMaker Media

    GMLive returns this Saturday

    After taking an extended break over the Christmas and New Year period GMLive are set to return with an episode of their live Game Maker radio discussion this Saturday (9th). The show kicks off at 11am Eastern Time (4pm UK, time in your location) and there are a lot of news topics to catch up […] More

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    in Community Links, Games

    Cactus IGF Finalist, GMIndie Issue 3

    Cactus’ 3D platformer Tuning has been announced as a finalist in the $2,500 Nuovo Award category of the 2010 Independent Games Festival.  Also on GMB: Cactus lecture on 4-hour game design. GMIndie have released the third issue of their Game Maker magazine (direct pdf link).  There are two ‘reviews’ and a feature on the 3D […] More

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    in Community Links, GMC

    New GMC Image Rules but no Videos yet unless…

    At the end of last year Game Maker Community member, and GMB author, Revel requested the addition of a feature to allow YouTube videos to be embedded within posts in the Work in Progress section of the forum.   Revel has now created a GMC Firefox extension which incorporates some of the features requested by […] More

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    in Games

    2 Game Maker Games to watch out for in 2010!

    Two upcoming Game Maker games were featured in IndieGames.com’s recent list of “Ten Indie Games To Watch Out For in 2010“. The first is Tuning by Cactus in which you control a ball through a world of blocks with the object of the game being to reach the goal on each level.   “As you […] More

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    in Comment, GameMaker Development, Websites

    Did you predict 2009?

    This time last year we asked whether 2009 would see the release of Game Maker 8 and Game Maker for Mac.  You thought so with these two predicitions for the year receiving the most votes in our poll (results repeated below). [poll id=”6″] Here is a  look back at how the predictions fared: More

  • 9 Comments

    in Blog News

    Community Award Winners 2009

    Congratulations to all the winners in our 2009 Community Awards! Best source of Game Maker tutorials and/or examples – Official Game Maker Community Best periodical publication – Game Maker Tech Best reviews of Game Maker games – NAL Best non-English Game Maker website – GMClan.org (Polish) Most exciting launch of the year (calendar year 2009) […] More

  • 41 Comments

    in Games

    2009: 100 Game Maker Games in 10 Minutes

    Happy New Year everyone! I’ve spent the last few weeks putting this video together. It’s my take on Rinkuhero’s classic 100 Game Maker Games in 10 Minutes video. All the games included were either made or completed in 2009, and I’ve restricted it to a maximum of 2 games per developer. More

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    in Blog News

    Happy new year!

    I swear it was yesterday when I last made one of these posts! Here at GameMaker Blog, we wish you a happy new year! (Like the last 2 years, this post was scheduled to be published at midnight server time.) More

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    2009: Game Maker Year in Numbers

    $2.20 – average amount paid by purchasers of the commercial game maker game Immortal Defense in a recent “pay what you like” sale. 5 – number of activations allowed by the Softwrap DRM for Game Maker 8 6 – Live Game Maker discussion radio programmes hosted by GMLive 8.0 – latest version of Game Maker to be […] More

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