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    Oh it’s V3

    The ever growing community site, Snowmoons, has finally released what they call V3 of the site. Not much information has been released on what has exactly been changed. However from first glance you can see they had a complete redesign and they also fixed up some coding. The ‘Forum’ is still under construction. Lets hope […] More

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    G3D Effects Libary

    A promising new website, the G3d 3d Effects Database, has been launched. This innovative site hosts an array of different 3D Effects created by various artists/coders for GameMaker. It currently features just a little over ten effects but from the look of this site I can imagine this number will grow at a rapid rate. […] More

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    Blog watch

    In the past few weeks a couple of new GameMaker magazine associated blogs have opened. GMKing on openness: In a post on the recently launched GMKing network blog Robin Monks, a co-editor of MarkUp, gives a brief insight into the decision making process behind the magazine. Matthew from GameMaker Magazine: The owner of GameMaker Magazine […] More

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    Frozzd frazzles caveman

    The winner of YoYo Games’ first, Winter themed, competition “Frozzed” has claimed victory in the second cagematch since its return. 2Dcube‘s $1,000 winning game defeated last weeks winner Caveman Craig with 63% of the votes. A game to silence any detractors of 2-dimensional game play. The comparison to Mario is inevitable, with elements from Paper […] More

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    Adware can lose game creators money

    Bad implementation of adware can be counterproductive. Introducing the free version of Chara-Maker v3 a promising piece of software which, through the use of a freely available sprite sheet, makes creating simple characters easy. Only one character is present but they are animated through a large variety of actions and hair styles and all colour […] More

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    Insomniac?

    Introducing Nocturnal Engine which looks like being will be the most promising GameMaker “community” style website launch for a long time. All the usual features you would expect at sites like SnowMoons and GameMakerCentral are there – blogs, profile pages and an upload facility.  There is also a forum and IRC facility and thankfully the […] More

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    This Game Is Art :: Results

    This Game Is Art This contest ran from May 26 to June 26, 2008. Entrants were to create a game that was art, with no definition of art provided. Our judges each chose five favourites in order of preference, and then we did the math. Many of the entries that didn’t place in the top […] More

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    Low activity at GameMaker School

    ShadePlay23’s GameMaker School is today recovering from a DDoS attack. Genuine activity at the forums has been “extremely low” in recent weeks which has led to ShadePlay23 stating that he may have to “permanently cancel the Game Maker School”. The school currently has over 340 registered members but most do not actively participate in any […] More

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    Caveman Craig beats competition winner

    RhysAndrews’ Caveman Craig has stormed to victory in the first GMC cage match for a long time. The game, which was awarded 2nd place in the YoYo Games Ancient Civilization competition, was put up against the winning and third placed entries. Caveman Craig showed it really was the community’s choice by polling over 50% of […] More

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    Monkey Island!

    I came across a preview of the imaginatively titled Monkey Island 5 at the Game Maker Community. The game is being built to demonstrate the AGEGaM (Adventure Game Engine for Game Maker) which was made by its creators. I was interested in this for two reasons – first because I loved the first two original […] More

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    Have YoYo Games improved the quality of GameMaker games?

    A quick look at the 20 most played games on YoYoGames.com reveals a host of totally playable games with decent graphics and sound effects which have obviously had some serious time invested in them. Some of the most popular games on YoYo Games.com Have there always been this many high quality GameMaker games and has […] More

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    New look GMTech forum

    A few days after introducing a new design on their main website, GMTech have changed their forum skin to a far more professional and clean-looking design. Issue 13 of the GameMaker Tech magazine is due to be released in early August. More

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