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    2009: Game Maker Media

    Magazines Unlike 2008, which saw the launch of three decent multi-issue magazines, 2009 has been a quiet year for Game Maker publications.  Indeed no single magazine has released more than three issues in the past 12 months and the list of all releases is quite short: Prodigy GM 3 Simulation GM 1 GMFreak Simulation GM […] More

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    2009: Most popular GameMaker Blog Articles

    Five most read articles in 2009: For a time in 2007 YoYo Games were hosting a Game Maker 7 Pro crack in their resources section.  Despite being notified of its existence it remained online for at least a month. Scirra’s Construct is an open source free game development tool.  In January I spoke with one of the people […] More

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    GMIndie Issue 2

    The second issue of GMIndie has been released (direct pdf link). The design has been completely transformed away from the mysterious two column format used in the first issue and the news section has been scrapped. Included are short reviews of a couple of snowy themed games, an interview with GMC user foxinabox and a […] More

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    Game Review – Kick Santa In The Nuts (Krakko)

    To capitalise on the festive cheer, I decided to review a game about Christmas or holiday celebrated around the same period. I couldn’t find any truly neutral holiday games, so I had to stick with Christmas. So, of all the brilliant Christmassy games out there (Daniel Remar’s Garden Gnome Carnage springs to mind), why did […] More

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    Game Maker 8.0 Released

    GameMaker Studio and GameMaker Studio 2 have since been released and GameMaker 8.0 discontinued. YoYo Games have today released version 8 of Game Maker.  The interface remains the same as in previous versions but there have been a number of improvements with completely rewritten Sprite and Script editors and some new features.  This is the […] More

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    The Game Maker 8 Upgrade Process

    Gone is the nasty grey upgrade nag screen of Game Maker 7 and in its place is the colourful Game Maker 8 launch message.  The purpose is still the same though, to encourage Game Maker users to part with $25 for the full, upgraded, Pro version of the software. More

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    Game Maker TV “Cancelled”

    Dan Eggers’ Game Maker TV, which released its first video back in 2007, has cancelled work on producing future episodes of the online video show. Earlier in the week their hosting account expired and now the cancellation has been made official – put down to “a loss of interest” by the shows creators Brad (Revel) […] More

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    GMIndie Magazine Releases First Issue

    We haven’t seen as many magazine launches, or indeed magazine issues at all, this year compared to 2008.  Brian Fetcher’s GMIndie left it late in the year to release with their first issue (direct pdf link) coming out yesterday. The magazine, which claims it will come out weekly, has a strange layout.  Two columns is simple […] More

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    GMLive Show 6 – Listen Again

    Today’s GMLive radio show had a distinct NAL flavour.  With Andrew McCluskey’s latest creation madnessMADNESSmadness recently passing the 10,000 plays barrier on YoYo Games several of his games were featured along with a discussion of Game Maker news from the past two weeks. Host Joshua Pedroza revealed that YoYo Games are working on an Instant […] More

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    YoYo Games speak out about Pirates

    People who pirate Game Maker are not welcome at YoYoGames.com. That is the message given by Sandy and Mark Overmars in a post on the YoYo Games blog earlier today. Previously Sandy had said “The money we make helps to pay the bills, so buying Game Maker 8 whether you bought GM5 and have upgraded […] More

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