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    in YoYo Games

    YYG Wiki and GMPedia to merge?

    In a move which looks like it could be the start of an integration of gmpedia articles into the recently relaunched YoYo Games Wiki, the administrators from gmpedia have had accounts created on YoYo Games’ Wiki – retaining their admin privileges. However there has been no official acknowledgement of this by either YYG or GMKing. […] More

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    GM Cast Website Launched

    GM Cast, the GameMaker TV show created to rival the popular and successful GMking project GameMaker TV, have launched their website. Details have also been given regarding the contents of their first video due which is due to be released on November 1st. * We Have an Interview with the creator, and Owner of GMWeekly […] More

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    in Competition, YoYo Games

    YYG results by Thursday

    Sandy Duncan has written on the YoYo Games blog that the results of YoYo Games’ competition will be announced “NO LATER than 5 pm UK time on Thursday”. The co-operation themed competition was YoYo’s third and had attracted over 275 entries. The winner will receive $1000, with a second-place prize of $500 and $250 for […] More

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    New iPhone Game Development Platform

    Gendai Games have released an on-application-only alpha of their GameSalad game creation tool. Resources to use during game creation are hosted online, and can be dragged-and-dropped into place. Whilst GameSalad is currently only compatible with the Mac OS platform the games it creates are playable online and on the iPhone. The “YouTube for Games” idea […] More

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    GM-Cast, GMTV-Killer?

    A new GameMaker TV show in the works, GM-Cast, has hit trouble before the launch of its first episode which we are told will be released by “November 1st AT THE LATEST!“. The idea for GM-Cast apparently came about after a member of the team was refused a posistion at the well established GameMaker TV, […] More

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    GameMaker Scope Magazine reaches a new level of professionality

    The recently launched GameMaker Scope Magazine (previously GameMaker Magazine) has been getting more professional issue by issue. But their new “hiring” post in the GMC indicates otherwise. The post lists positions available as usual, with an application template, with some odd bits, such as “1. All conversations and organizing will be done over the forums […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo Games Wiki to Grow

    Mark Overmars has expressed his desire to turn the currently pathetic wiki on YoYo Games into a central source of GameMaker information. “As some of you might have noticed we have changed the Wiki to use the well-known MediaWiki software. Our hope is that the wiki becomes the best source of information about the use […] More

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    GMWeekly and Magazine Stats

    Darren Poole has released his sixth issue of GMWeekly (mediafire dl) – one day late. This means that GMWeekly has now released as many issues as GameMaker Scope. If Weekly continues to release on-time it will have reached its 20th issue by the end of the year making it the GameMaker magazine which has released […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo Games Rating system to Change

    Many people have moaned at the GMC about what they view as inadequacies with the rating system on YoYo Games. Whilst this is a relatively trivial matter for most of us the conspiracy of the so-called ‘downraters’ appears to have got under the skin of plenty of GameMaker users. In a move that may please […] More

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    Save Games whilst Playing Online

    If, instead of downloading GameMaker games in the traditional sense, you prefer to use YoYo Games’ InstantPlay technology you might be interested to know of a recent change at GMArcade. GMArcade have updated their “Play Online” feature so that saved games are not wiped each time you restart a game. Describing the feature GMArcade admin […] More

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    YoYo Games Save The Planet Competition

    YoYo Games announced there 4th competition entitled ‘The YoYo Games: Save The Planet Competition’ which reminds  me of the comic that was featured GM Weekly issue 3.  This competition features the same rules and prizes that were in all the other YoYo competitions (thats a shocker) , or to quote YoYo directly: “Same prizes, same […] More

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    Karoshi in Flash and on the iPhone?

    In an interview published yesterday on The Auntie Pixelante blog 21 year old Jesse Venbrux, perhaps better known by his GMC alias of 2Dcube, announced that along with 2 of his classmates he has created a Flash version of his popular suicide game Karoshi. The Flash version of Karoshi will be sold to the highest […] More

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