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    in Competition

    Which game deserves $100?

    There are now just 5 days to go until the winner of the TIA Limited Graphics gamemaker competition is revealed as the contest ends. So far only 2 votes have been placed and they are both by entrants of the competition voting for their own submissions! A $100 first prize is up for grabs so […] More

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    GM-Most-Weekly

    After two consecutive missed release dates GMWeekly have published their 13th issue (left click only download). “First of all, I should apologise for the absence of an issue last week. Both me and Broxter were extremely busy and it became obvious to us that we would just not be able to get an issue out. […] More

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    GMWeekly or not so

    Last Friday Darren Poole’s GMWeekly magazine did not publish an issue and earlier today Darren confirmed that an issue would not be released today either, instead promising that issue 13 will be released tomorrow as well as a reason for the delay. Whilst it may widely be considered that releasing a second issue is the […] More

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    in GameMaker Development

    Game Maker Mac Private Beta

    If you are interested in applying to be part of the private beta for the beta version of Game Maker for Mac check out Sandy’s latest post on the YoYo Games blog. See also: Video from February 2008 demonstrating Game Maker on Mac, Game Salad Mac game development tool More

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    MarkUp 15 Released

    The fifteenth issue of MarkUp has today been released. This is the first issue of the game development magazine to be released since mid-July and features a good variety and quantity of content. Direct pdf links: 3.23MB, 2MB There are more game reviews than normal with Senseless War, Angels, Mubbly Tower, Seven Minutes, Silent Dawn […] More

  • in Free Software

    GProtect: A simple solution to time limits in games?

    GProtect, an easy way to limit people to sixty minutes of playtime? What GProtect does is nothing new. It’s been done so much in demos that I want to kill myself. But now it’s bringing its easy-to-use feature to gamemaker! You can easily protect your games, and set keys to them just like that. The […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    25,000 Games now Online at YoYo

    Earlier today YoYo Games passed the 25,000 games threshold as maze game Treasure Remix became the 25,001st GameMaker application to be uploaded to the site. The Games on YoYo have collectively been played more than 5,100,000 times, an average of over 200 plays per game. However the distribution of plays per game is far from […] More

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    in Development

    Incredible Hulk DS Game prototyped in GameMaker

    The makers of the official Incredible Hulk game for the Nintendo DS have revealed that they made a prototype of the game using YoYo Games’ GameMaker software. In a four page article on the game development website Gamasutra developers Fizz Factor give an insight into the development process of the game. More

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    in Games, Reviews

    TIA Limited Gfx Competition Entries

    The $100 TIA limited graphics competition is accepting entries until 10th November, from when 10 days of voting commences. Here is a look at the three games that have been submitted so far. Black and Blue – GMC topic and download link A surprisingly addictive arcade game where all you can do is shoot! You […] More

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    in Comment, GMC

    Fake Fred Fails – GMC attitude stinks

    An immature GMC member has created an account with the username ‘FredFrederickson‘ which he was using to impersonate GMC global moderator FredFredrickson. This post is not written however to give attention to such stupidity of attention seekers, but instead to the attitudes of other community members including a moderator. After a good deal of confusion […] More

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    Where are the online highscores?

    It has now been more than a year since Mark Overmars announced that YoYo Games would create an online highscore system ‘pretty soon’. “We will enhance the highscore mechanism in Game Maker such that scores will be stored on the website and there will be many different lists. We also plan to connect the highscore […] More

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