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    $225 up for grabs in Retro Game Competition.

    Zerosoft have launched a retro-style game contest with $225 in cash prizes. We are looking for old school graphics and game play. The prizes have been raised but with that our expectations have been raised as well. We will judge this competition strictly so follow our guide. We want to see pixellated graphics, action, and […] More

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    GameMaker Blog 2008 Award Winners

    Voting in the four remaining categories of Game Maker Blog’s Community Awards has ended, with a total of over 250 votes being made.  The results have been checked and the final figures are posted below. The voting in “Best source of Game Maker tutorials and/or examples” surprised me as this was the award that had received the most votes, despite […] More

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    Happy new year!

    It has come to our attention that all real blogs should make a new year post. So here it is, with a fancy photo of fireworks, too! So we at GameMaker Blog wish you a happy new year. Or something. (This post was scheduled to be published at New Year server time, like last year.) More

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    GM Station “Magazine”

    A new GameMaker magazine website has been launched.  GM Station takes the form of a single webpage. Included: Copy of Sandy Duncan’s introduction to the Save our Planet competition (which ends in four days). Screenshot of the Mubbly Tower page on the YoYo Games website. Reviews:  “This here is a really good pinball game. The sounds are […] More

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    Seasonally short mid-week community links

    Voting has closed in GameMaker Blog’s very own community awards for the year 2008.  The votes will be verified and the final results published tomorrow (January 1st). WillHostForFood is currently blacklisted by Google, resulting in nice warning messages everytime I try to view a page on the GMC which contains something hosted at WHFF in […] More

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    2008: Most Popular Posts

    They were requested for 2007, so here they are for 2008 – the most popular posts of the year on GameMaker Blog. Most discussed posts (comments this year): Prodigy GM gone for good? (51 comments) – “Everyone’s favourite” GameMaker site appeared to be gone. It didn’t last. YoYo host GameMaker 7 Pro Crack (44 this […] More

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    (Nearly) New Year – New Theme

    For a while now I have been looking to update the theme on GameMaker Blog to give it a fresh look and, more importantly, a better implementation of listing post comments. So from today we are using a new theme suggested by GMB writer gamez93.  The new look gives a wider portion of the page […] More

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    2008 Review: Competitions

    2008 has probably been the best year for Game Maker competitions yet. This is mainly down to the three high-profile contests launched by YoYo Games this year, and the results of last year’s winter-themed competition being announced which has seen over $5,000 given out to game creators. The themes of the competitions launched this year […] More

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    2008 Review: Game Maker Magazines

    Over the past year the fate of different Game Maker magazines has contrasted.  The year started with two strong magazines, GameMaker Tech and MarkUp, going head to head with their January releases.  However in 2008 these often praised publications had a troubled year, with both magazines releasing less frequently than they had done so in […] More

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    Mid-week community links

    GameMaker Tech magazine have completed their giveaway of 10 free GameMaker 7 pro licenses. The winning entries in their competition were submitted by T-Dub, Peter Colborne-Veel, Manuel, Giorgio Sotiropoulos, Rigoberto Juarez, Mariano Ariel de la Torre, Schalk, Jatz, Newbguy and Matthew Kremer. Congratulations to all the winners and to GameMaker Tech for organising a competition […] More

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    “We’re running out of time”

    The spiraling effects of the credit crunch means that ThePlaySource may soon* be offline!  In a shameless plea for GMC users to fund his failed project ThePlaySource’s owner writes “I really don’t want this website to go down” More

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    Vote in our Community Awards!

    Voting has now closed! The results can be found here. The nominations process has now closed and voting can commence in GameMaker Blog’s very own awards which hopes to showcase the producers of the best Game Maker resources. You may vote once in each category upto the 31st of December. The votes will then be verified […] More

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