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    Kwiklook Magazine discontinued

    Darren Poole’s Kwiklook magazine has been discontinued after 2 issues. He hints that he might turn the magazine into a blog: Okay. I’m sorry, but due to my recent laziness, I’ve decided to discontinue KwikLook. Once again, I have failed to keep a magazine running. I guess I was just asking too much of myself… […] More

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    Game a Week experiment and new GMC Moderators

    Using some of the “crazy Cactus design philosophy” Liveo plans to create a game a week for a year.  Some, but not all, of the games will be made in Game Maker which Liveo will soon be teaching.  You can follow his attempt at his Imperceptive Muddle blog. Meanwhile there have been some changes to […] More

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    RTS + Christian SpeedGame Game Making Competitions

    A couple of game making competitions to tell you about this week. The first is GameMakerStation.com’s Real Time Strategy contest which runs for 3 and a half months and has $350 of prizes. The goal is to create a Real time strategy game with the following: Your Soldiers (Modern or Medieval) Enemy Soldiers (Modern or […] More

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    Unsurprisingly YoYo Games are yet to make a profit

    At the GMC users with little knowledge of how a business works expect to get it all without paying anything. As Sir Alan Sugar would say these people “haven’t got a bloody clue” of economics and hold delusions that YoYo is some big bad corporate enemy that has snatched Game Maker away from its creator […] More

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    GMCG: The long and winding road

    It has been over a month now since the Game Maker Community Game has begun, and for those who are entering concept fresh it may seem like there is very little to show for the Herculean effort that has taken place. However, the deceiving lack of anything concrete belies the sheer amount of developmental work […] More

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    Game Maker in Schools

    A look at the increasing use of Game Maker in education around the world including an insight from Simon Donkers on a course he recently ran at the IMC Weekendschool in The Netherlands. This article was first published in Game Maker Tech issue 16 released on 29th May 2009.   Over the past few years […] More

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    Game Maker Tech Issue 16 Released

    The 16th issue of popular Game Maker magazine GMTech has today been released.   As well as the usual code features and game reviews there is a rather interesting bunch of features.  An exciting exclusive interview with two members of thatgamecompany is the front-page article.   Download now | Direct pdf link (5.2MB) More

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    Thoughts on GMVision’s first episode

    GMVision released the first episode of their Game Maker TV show earlier today.  The first thing mentioned was Dan Eggers’ GMTV.  It gets mentioned far too much – please provide original content not just competitor-bashing under the thinly-disguised veil of ‘news’. The news section with Tor:  How much had she been drinking prior to the […] More

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    GMVision Episode 1 Released

    Episode 1 of Joshua Pedroza’s GMVision has been released on time (scroll down to watch). The show has been in the works for a long time after originally being started started following disagreement between Josh and the creators of established Game Maker video service GMTV (who recently split from GMKing). Problems with the proposed original […] More

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    Simulated Switch

    After releasing two issues in its first two weeks of existence and nothing since SimulatorGM has changed from a magazine to a website.   BoxFish, as the website is named, features reviews of simulation and sports games created with Game Maker. More

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