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    in Games, Reviews

    Review: Doodle Balls – artistic fun?

    Doodle balls, a game created by Stubbjax02 yesterday, is in the beta stages–though it is rather difficult to tell! The graphics are superb, and the sounds are indeed brilliantly done, plus the gameplay is rather addicting – even though the only mode available is easy. More

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    in Blog News

    GameMaker Blog Game Reviews

    Over the next few weeks GameMaker Blog will be experimenting with the inclusion of GameMaker game reviews on the site. Instead of reviewing well-established and already popular games we will instead focus on games that are currently in the development stages and may not be well known. The first of these reviews, of Doodle Balls, […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYoGames.com gets a makeover

    The YoYoGames website has changed, featuring a slightly altered layout. According to the YYG “glog”, there still are a few bugs on the site: We know there are still one or two bugs, but I took the decision to go ahead and deploy since most of you will have more time to use the site […] More

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    in Uncategorized

    Boss Battles with Russell

    Tom Russell has released the fourth edition of his quarterly game development magazine, subtitled “Boss Battles”. The pdf is free to download (left click only, 3.1 MB) and contains 90 pages of articles, features and game reviews and even a 13-page short story. More

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    in Websites, YoYo Games

    YYG/GMPedia wiki merge now official

    YoYo Games have announced that the rumoured merge between their wiki and GMPedia, a community project by GMking is now official. Earlier, the GMking blog confirmed the merge. All 600 articles from the original GMpedia wiki will be migrated onto the YoYo Games wiki. This also includes articles not related to Game Maker, but computer […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    GameMaker Instant Play Decompiler

    Games available via Instant Play on the YoYo Games website can now be decompiled following the release of the second version of a GameMaker decompiler authored by Clam. [Click images to view at full size] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YYG Wiki still changing…

    As GameMaker Blog suggested a week ago it appears that YoYo Games are preparing their wiki for a merger with gmpedia.org. All adverts on the YoYo Games wiki have been removed and its contents have been licensed thorough a Creative Commons License, which fits in with the GMKing ethos. …we want the new Wiki to […] More

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    in Distribution

    AdSense for Games

    Google have launched a beta of their in-game advertising solution, dubbed “AdSense for games”. The program makes it easy to display ads in placements the game creator defines, such as before a game, after a level, or when the game is over. The beta is currently only accepting publishers with high traffic levels. I am […] More

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    in GMC

    Tutorials and Examples revamped

    The Tutorials and Examples section of the GameMaker Community has been re-opened as GameMaker Blog reported would happen 3 days ago. A new set of rules and guidelines are in place and all new tutorials or examples added to the forum need to follow a specific template before needing to be approved by a moderator […] More

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    in Distribution

    RadAd – In Game Advertising

    About a month after GameGlyph made its promising debut it appears to have been forgotten or abandoned by its creators. However a new service that claims to make selling in-game advertising for GameMaker easy has now come along, RadAd. RadAd is a project led by Josh Conley which displays a 5 second advert at the […] More

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    in GMC

    Tutorials and Examples to return

    The long closed Tutorials and Examples forum at the Game Maker Community is set to re-open soon according to a forum moderator. New posts in the forum, which previously enabled GameMaker users to post “good, clear, concise and efficient tutorials and well documented examples that can be of great use to other Game Maker users”, […] More

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