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    Game Maker 8 Logo Contest Entry Deadline

    28 days ago, Sandy Duncan announced that he would be holding a competition to see who could make the best new logo for GM8. Earlier today, he announced that the time for submitting your entries has now come to a close. The winners(s) will be picked out of the 500+ submissions that were entered by […] More

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    YoYo Games undergoing new round of funding

    YoYo Games Ltd are currently trying to raise new investment in the company. We recently posted documents which showed that in the two years to 31st October 2008 YoYo Games lost more than £420,000 (~$680,000 USD).  Speaking on this weekend’s GMLive host Joshua Pedroza said that although he is “not allowed to say much about this” […] More

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    Game Maker Station offers “merge” to 64Digits

    Earlier today the owner of Game Maker Station, Frederick Watson, sent an e-mail to 64Digits administrator Arcalyth requesting a “merge” with the still popular Game Maker community. Frederick presents the proposed merge as a rare and lucky opportunity for the often-troubled site which has over 15,000 registered accounts. “The only thing keeping 64 Digits alive […] More

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    in GameMaker Media

    GMLive’s Second Game Maker Radio Show (Listen again)

    Two weeks after their maiden broadcast GMLive returned with a one hour 50 minute Game Maker discussion earlier today. Problems with the streaming at the start of the show meant that the introduction of hosts Robin Monks and Caniac could not be heard by many, if not all, listeners however things quickly improved. Sadly my Internet speed […] More

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    GMLive – Second Show Topics

    GMLive’s second live Game Maker radio discussion takes place this Saturday at 11am EDT (4pm BST in the UK, 5pm Western Europe). Hosting will be Joshua Pedroza and Robin Monks with guests including Dan Eggers (from Game Maker TV) and a representative for the Game Maker Community Game. Topics up for discussion include the absence […] More

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    GMC Moderator is New GM-Resources owner

    The Game Maker Community moderator and owner of GMLScripts.com, xot, is to take over GM-Resources.com Following the announcement that the site was up for sale a number of Game Maker groups including GMVision and Game Maker Station expressed an interest in purchasing the site. More

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    Game Review – Death Worm

    If there was ever an example of how successful Game Maker games can be, JTR’s “Death Worm” would probably be it. It took the indie gaming scene by storm when it was released nearly three years ago, and has been featured in pretty much every PC gaming magazine in existence (I’m a regular reader of […] More

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    We Love Game Design

    Four students in their third year of a Digital Games degree at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden have undertaken an ambitious task to create a game every two days in a four week period. About ten mini-games have already been created including Two Minutes to Midnight, where your typing skills are put to the test […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo co-founder Michel Cassius speaking in 2007

    Michel Cassius, former head of xBox in Europe, Middle East and Africa, is a co-founder of and shareholder in YoYo Games Ltd. These videos were recorded at What’s next for Online Gaming which took place in December 2007.  Michel discusses the idea behind YoYo Games, the business model and why he thinks they will succeed. More

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    Game Review – Rosetta Stone

    Firstly, I’d like to introduce myself, I’m Andrew McCluskey, aka “NAL”, the newest addition to the Game Maker Blog team. My contributions are solely going to focus on reviewing Game Maker games from the past and present. I’ll write these every one to two weeks. The first game I shall be reviewing is the most […] More

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    What is Game Maker Station doing?

    Game Maker Station obviously sees itself as the new GMKing.  A recent e-mail to forum members outlined the services they offer which include a forum, a chat room, a blog network, a game maker top sites list, a game maker school and file hosting and email services.  Not to mention a poor-mans version of this […] More

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    in Game Maker 8, YoYo Games

    YoYo Games Improves Site Performance

    Sandy announced that the YoYo Games website performance will be improved with both software and hardware upgrades. Plans are currently in place to have the sites two main servers upgraded later this week. It has been over a year since the first upgrades however these new changes will include a memory upgrade on both of […] More

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