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    Mid-week Community Links

    They return! Check out: Game Maker Highscores – easily add online highscore capability to your GameMaker games. Zerosoft Gone –  the popular GameMaker community ZeroSoft which has previously held high value game making competitions has closed. Visited Recently?  GM-Resources’ map of Game Maker Community members – there are now over 100 users plotted!  Who lives near you? Follow us:  GameMaker Blog has […] More

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    GM Freak Magazine, issue 1

    These just keep on coming, don’t they? “GM Freak” by GMC member Christopher_L (who seems to have joined a day before releasing this magazine). 10 pages of content. So, what do we have? A title page, featuring white background and a simple logo which shouts out “Office 2007”. Footer reads “GM Freak 2008 ©”. Great effort […] More

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    New GameMaker Magazine: Simulator GM

    SimulatorGM is a small developing magazine that focuses on reviewing simulation games made with Game Maker. This can be any simulation from sports games, to sandbox games, to particle or spore based games. Each issue, we pick one game or program that we enjoyed the most and include it with the magazine. You can read […] More

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    GMKing’s 7th Podcast released

    GMKing have published a new podcast – their third of the year.  Recorded in time for a week after their previous episode (but not released until now!)  Once again the show is hosted by Robin Monks and GameMaker TV host Dan Eggers who are joined by GMKing’s Eyas Sharaiha. Issues discussed include whether or not Construct is a viable alternative […] More

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    64digits hacked – don’t visit the site

    Everyone’s favourite Game Maker community site, 64 digits, has been hacked.  If you have followed GameMaker Blog for any length of time you probably know that I despise the site and their constant hackings, admin fallings out, infighting and general order of chaos.  This is just a warning that you should not visit the site unless […] More

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    Gone and (not?) forgotten: GMWeekly

    At the end of last year GMWeekly became the latest in a long series of Game Maker publications to join Game Maker magazine graveyard. Much to the surprise of many the magazine was released on-time every Friday for its first 11 weeks.   Things however started to slip with two missed release dates and then a […] More

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    Add your location to a world map of GMC members

    James Rhodes of GM-Resources.com has created a map on which GMC forum members can indicate their geographic location. You may like to add yourself or see what other users are from your neck of the woods, although the service has only just started so very few members are currently plotted. Game Maker does have a […] More

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    In brief: Time Contest and vulnerabilities

    After a successful first competition, albeit with few entries, gmarcade have launched their second game making contest with the theme of ‘time’. The vulnerabilities discovered by James Rhodes in YoYo Games’ Instant Play remain unfixed more than three months after they were bought to the attention of the website. More

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    Save the Planet Competition Winners

    Earlier today Mark Overmars announced the winners of YoYo Games’ fourth competition. The winning games can be found below. For more information including details of the chosen games and the runners-up see Mark’s post. 1st Place, [$1000] : Greentech by Mr Chubigans 2nd Place, [$500] : EcoRush by andywiltshirenz 3rd Place, [$250] : Incoming: Battle […] More

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    YoYo Games will finally allow users to delete their own games again

    In December of last year YoYo Games removed the option that enabled their members to delete games they had uploaded.   Mark Overmars responded to the critiscim of the decision by saying that users should not have to delete their games, however the decision has been reversed today with CEO Sandy Duncan commenting “no idea […] More

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    Gmking Audcast #6

    GMking’s 6th podcast made its way online today with hosts Danny Eggers and Robin Monks. The production once again featured interesting things from around the Game Maker world. It featured things such as: Russell’s Quarterly 5 GMNews looking at their market GMhut Suggest Questions for GMTV to give to Sandy This edition of the Audcast […] More

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