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    in Community Links

    GMLive Topics, Crimelife 3, Paul Eres Interview

    GMLive are broadcasting their next Game Maker radio discussion show tomorrow at 11am Eastern Time (4pm UK, time in your location).  Topics will include Climb to the Top of the Castle’s recent $10,000 victory and people moaning at the lack of a hammer in the new Game Maker logo.  The guest is Wyatt Best (bendodge) […] More

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    in GameMaker Development

    Game Maker 7 for Mac “Delayed Indefinitely”

    Game Maker 7 for Mac, which has been in beta for over a year, has had its development “delayed indefinitely”.  Progress over the last year has been slow but this is the first official word on its status for a long time. “Sorry to bring bad news, but our Mac Developer has resigned this morning […] More

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    in Competition

    Climb to the Top of the Castle wins $10,000

    TwO Bros. Games‘s Climb to the Top of the Castle has scooped first place in the 2BeeGames competition and the $10,000 prize. As well as the cash the prize also includes a publishing deal to a console (yet to be decided). 4 Game Maker games made the final 10 of the contest. More

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    Game Review – Fetus

    I was originally going to review the winner of the Game Jolt Minimal competition for this overly-late review (sorry, been a tad busy lately), but then a Construct-built game went and won it. So I decided on reviewing the second place game, Saut. Except… had to skip it as well – it’s a one-button game, […] More

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    in Blog News

    2009 Game Maker Blog Community Awards

    Yes, it’s that time of the year again.  We have just entered December and already we are looking back at the past 11 months with our second annual Community Awards. To quote from the 2008 nominations post: “In an attempt to focus more on the wider-community surrounding Game Maker than just the GMC, forum members […] More

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    in Game Maker 8

    Sandy: I’ll take Positive Suggestions on Logo

    In a series of comments responding to criticism directed at YoYo Games’ recent choice of logo for Game Maker 8 Sandy Duncan has said he is willing to listen to constructive feedback. “I’m willing to see evolution, not revolution… Evolution vs Revolution if Albert Zak is one of he judges ? (and no hammers !) […] More

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    in Community Links

    End of week Community Links

    Yesterday GMVision released a video review of the 3D FPS Infinite War.  An archive of last weekends GMLive radio show has also been uploaded. Sam Whited has created a Twitter list of influential Game Maker users. Wow there has been a lot of reaction to the new Game Maker logo.  Hopefully we can now move […] More

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    in Game Maker 8

    Interview with Game Maker 8 Logo Creator

    Yesterday YoYo Games revealed the new logo that will be used to represent Game Maker 8. As expected some members of the community have been very vocal in their opposition to it with one petition attracting 500 signatures in 18 hours asking for the logo to be replaced. I expect that between them the signatories […] More

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    in GameMaker Development, YoYo Games

    New Game Maker Logo Revealed

    This is the new logo that will be used to represent Game Maker and has earned its creator, 15 year old Albert Zak, the $250 cash prize. The logo was selected by Game Maker creator Mark Overmars and YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan from more than 500 which were submitted by Game Maker users.  In […] More

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    Mid-week Community Links

    GreyPea has launched a game development diary documenting the progress of a “2D side scrolling something-em-up”. The daily posts are short so it doesn’t require too much commitment to follow. Kablooey! is currently in second place in the final public poll in the 2BeeGames contest.  Public voting takes place up to the end of the […] More

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    in Distribution

    NextPlay: An easy Instant Play alternative

    NextPlay, a feature rich Instant Play alternative, is a project that hasn’t got the attention it deserves. NextPlay was launched on February 22nd 2009 by Covac Software which is lead by uuf6429 at the GMC. NextPlay has the most features when comparing it to some other Instant Play alternatives as you can see on this […] More

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    in Books

    The Game Maker’s Companion: Coming April 2010

    The Game Maker’s Companion is the title of Jacob Habgood’s follow-up book to the successful The Game Maker’s Apprentice. Earlier in the year Jacob asked for suggestions as to what a second, more advanced, book should include.  Companion is due to be released in April 2010 and publishers APress have recently released some information about […] More

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