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    Limited Graphics Game Competition

    TIA Software, who previously suggested a 100-games-in-one idea, are holding a $100 “Limited Graphics” GameMaker contest. The entrance criteria are as follows: Your game must only have 2 different colors in it. (your game may have different shades in the 2 colors you choose) Your game must be made of basic shapes (triangle, square, rectangle, […] More

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    GameMaker Tech website STILL down

    For the past 5 days the website and forum of the GameMaker Technology magazine have been inaccessible for readers of the magazine and staff members. Explaining the situation at the GMC, GameMaker Tech editor gmjab wrote “Our host has unexpectedly closed without any noticed to all its registered users. We are trying to resolve this […] More

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    Play any GMArcade game anywhere

    Last week GMArcade added a new feature to their website which enables users to launch any game uploaded to their site from any other website using their “Play Online” technology. This bypasses the need for a gamer to visit the GMArcade website as games can be launched from individual team websites or even, as GMArcade […] More

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    Game Glyph – Integrated Advertising Solutions

    Someone has beaten YoYo Games to release a feature they said they were considering adding in the future. Game Glyph – Integrated Advertising Solutions is a new service that will display a random advertisement at the start of a GameMaker created game and split ad revenues 50:50 with the creator of the game. Of course […] More

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    GMC malware drama continues

    UPDATE: The iframe has once again been removed, and GMC admin Chronic claims that “as far as he knows, YYG has applied the patch”. …As of 9. September, 2008, 19:15 GMT, an malicious third-party iframe has once again been embedded on the Game Maker Community (visit at your own risk). The iframe appears to exist […] More

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    GMC Malware free

    The malware which had been inserted into the forum template at YoYo Games’ Game Maker Community via an iframe was finally removed yesterday. Today GMC administrator Chronic announced that an encoded and harder to spot link to the virus had also been removed. And for those of you that disagreed with my critisicm of the […] More

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    Malware attack at the GMC

    UPDATE: The situation is now over, and the iframe has been removed. Google will still list the GMC as a “malicious website” until they recrawl it. Some users at the official Game Maker Community have today reported receiving warnings from their antivirus software or web-browsers when viewing the forum. The alerts are triggered from an […] More

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    Bye-Bye GameMaker Blog?

    YoYo Games decided to mention the release of GameMaker magazines (GameMaker Tech 2 days late). I must admit I am a little confused following the merger of The YoYo Games and Mark’s blog. The result appears to deliver a strange mix of YYG updates, GameMaker tips and requests to GameMaker users – and now apparently […] More

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    GameMaker Tech: Issue 13

    Two days after the release of a short sample, GameMaker Tech have released their full 13th issue. Direct pdf link (5.5MB) This latest offering includes: Game development articles focusing on using Cut-scenes in games and the use of colours in your games Interviews with hotshotscott about Halo Revolution and homebrewpc about GMArcade.com Articles on developing […] More

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    4th GMKing Podcast released

    GMKing’s sporadically released GameMaker Audcast Podcast is back with a fourth episode. Dan Eggers, a writer here and creator of GMTV, joins Robin Monks for a dicussion on GameMaker news from the past month. Here are the topics covered in the second audcast of 2008: Cage Match: 00:50 Loads of Game Maker mags: 02:18 G3D […] More

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