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    Second Game Maker 8 beta Released

    The second beta version of Game Maker 8 has been released and can be downloaded from the Mantis bug-tracker. The feature list remains that same as for the first beta, which was released at the start of July, however there have been a number of small additions and some bug fixes and changes which are […] More

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    Mike Deroche’s DLLs

    We haven’t mentioned any sites offering Game Maker resources for a long time as the vast majority of these projects are mediocre at best and quickly turn into a collection of broken links to a puny amount of files. Once in a while I stumble across a real gem though.  Mike Deroche‘s personal site is one […] More

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    Competition: Twenty Dollar Explosions

    Game Maker community website GameCog.net [site|launch] is holding its third game development competition with a theme of “Explosions”. A total of $40 of prizes are available with $20 being awarded by a team of judges and a further $20 GameMold Choice Award.  Games must be submitted by August 29th. More

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    in Books, Reviews

    Book Review: Getting Started with Game Maker by Jerry Lee Ford

    There are several different ways you could choose to get started with Game Maker.  You could download tutorials, fiddle around with examples, buy a book or play around in the IDE.  When I started using Game Maker there were no English-language books devoted to introducing the software so I was more limited in my options. […] More

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    Save the Planet claims $2,500 from 2BeeGames

    A few months ago 2Bee Games launched a $10,000 Game Making Contest in which two Game Maker games, “Bumps” and “Save the Planet”, made the finals.   Recently the results of this contest were announced with Edouard Mercure’s Game Maker game Save the Planet coming second in the community vote. “We are proud to annouce [sic] that Auditorium has […] More

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    in Comment, Development

    2009 Predictions: 6 months on

    At the start of the year we asked readers of this blog to predict whether or not certain events would happen this year.  Now six months on how have the predictions fared? 55% of you thought that the mac version of Game Maker would be released.  At the end of last year we had just […] More

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    in Game Maker 8

    Game Maker 8 Public Beta Released

    When on Sunday we revealed that a beta of Game Maker 8 was “not far away” little did we know just how soon it would emerge. Earlier today Mark Overmars posted details of how to obtain a copy of Game Maker 8 beta on the YoYo Games blog.  To receive a copy of the beta […] More

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