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    Public Game Maker 8 Beta “not far away”

    Sandy Duncan has revealed that a “GM 8 Beta is not far away….”.   The statement was made in a response to a question by Polish student Piotr Gnys on Twitter. A preliminary list of features for Game Maker 8 was only revealed a couple of days ago so the news may come as a […] More

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    Second Game Maker Mac beta sent to testers

    Marc Simpson, YoYo Games’  “in-house programmer and occasional system admin” has this evening, Saturday 27th, sent the second version of the Game Maker 7 mac beta to those enrolled in the closed beta testing programme. On Sunday 28th Sandy added a message to testers  “This is much more stable, though not completely bug free.  We […] More

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    in Game Maker 8

    Game Maker 8 Features Listed: Resource Exporter Included

    Mark Overmars has posted on the YoYo Games blog with a preliminary list of features that are planned to be included in Game Maker 8. We already knew about the improved image editor with support for alpha transparency, the new bundled resources that YoYo were seeking artists for and GMB had speculated about an object […] More

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    GameJolt Contest Results

    The results of the first GameJolt contest have been announced.  A total of about 30 games were entered and the majority of entries and all three winners developed in Game Maker.  There were however a number of entries made using Construct. The three winning games earn their creators a place in the beta of GameJolt’s ad-revenue […] More

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    Mark Overmars Game Maker Competition

    The University of Utrecht (where Mark Overmars is a professor) is planning to hold a Creative Game Challenge for games made using versions 7 or 8 of Game Maker (version 8 should appear in Autumn 2009). Intended for students in ‘Voortgezet onderwijs’ (age group 13 to 17/18) the theme of the competition will be ‘animals’ […] More

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    Kwiklook Blog launches

    Following the discontinuation of the magazine, Darren Poole has launched a new blog, as promised: I may very well turn KwikLook into a blog, so if you care, watch out for that. Currently featuring 2 posts and an irritating all-bold font selection, the blog is off to a nice start. Me? At this point, I’m […] More

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    in Community Links

    Isometric Game Maker City

    The Russian Game Maker Community GM-Rus have created an isometric map of websites devoted to creating games.   You can see the world so far at GameLand. If you create an isometric building to represent your site you can add it to the city and get a link back to your Game Maker website.   Instructions of how to […] More

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    Prodigy Game Magazine: Issue 4

    Our good friend Hardcoregamer is back with a new issue of his magazine. The June issue features 19 pages of content (which has been mostly crammed into hard to read text walls in a mediocre layout): sounds promising, doesn’t it? More

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    in Competition

    Two Game Maker games in with a chance of $10,000

    Two games created in Game Maker are in the final of the $10,000 2BeeGames competition. Although the top prize is chosen by the contest organisers rather than the public there is a prize of $5,000 for the game that receives the most votes and $2,500 for the runner up. The third round of voting, which […] More

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    in Blog News

    Sorry

    Yesterday a post was made on this site which claimed to show a leaked screenshot of Game Maker 8. The image supplied was clearly not genuine and I would have thought this would be blatantly obvious to anyone viewing it.  Therefore I was extremely disappointed to logon this morning and see that our latest article […] More

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