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    C++ Runner enters "very private beta"

    Today’s “glog” post brings news: the long-awaited C++ runner is apparently entering “very private beta”. And the obligatory YYG rant: they actually got something done!? Bad news on the Mac front, though: On the other hand we’ve hit a barrier with teh [sic] Lazarus toolset on the Mac version and made very  little progress since […] More

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    New GMTV Website

    “We have decided to release the website earlier then episode 4 because we are having some more delays, and we thought you would like to know what’s going on and of course see the brand new site“ At least they have finally released something! Along with the new website, they have also updated the look […] More

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    YYG to finally make Instant Play Fx 3 compatible?

    YoYo Games’ Sandy Duncan has announced that a fix for their instant play feature to make it compatible with FireFox 3 will be released “July 15th midday (UK time)” – almost a month after the new version of the browser was made available for download. Were they spurred on by the recent open letter from […] More

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    Lack of YYG updates brings open letter

    GameMaker Community member Dr. Watz0n has posted an open letter to YoYo Games on his blog. The letter states his frustrations with the lack of updates provided by YoYo Games and the broken promises that they have made to users of their GameMaker software. More

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    MarkUp is back (not immediately)

    The most recent issue of a GameMaker magazine to be released is GMM’s fourth issue. We haven’t seen MarkUp release an issue since their 13th (or should I say XIII) back in late April. However work is well underway on the 14th issue as this scrambled picture released by Eyas shows. If you are interested […] More

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    Sites that sell GameMaker games

    The “Distributing Games” section of the Game Maker Community often contains posts where people are discussing their ideas to setup websites to enable GameMaker users to sell games they have created. Every now and again some of these ideas actually get past the drawing board and a website is actually set up. The latest such […] More

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    Game Maker Magazine Issue 4

    After a much criticised third issue released in April InstantArts have returned with their fourth Game Maker Magazine. Download GMM Issue 4 (pdf, 3.4MB) Unlike issue 3 in which the considerably improved quality of content was overshadowed by the controversy surrounding the new design, issue 4 has a unique layout so hopefully this time around […] More

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    GameMaker highscores with Vex K

    Vishnu Aravind has released an updated version of his online GameMaker highscores service. I first reviewed the original service back in October of last year when writing for Issue 9 of the MarkUp game development magazine. Put simply the site contains everything you need to create a global online highscore table for any game created […] More

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    Russell’s Quarterly – Issue 3

    The third issue of Tom Russell’s Russell’s Quarterly magazine focusing on game development past and present has been released ahead of schedule. The cover feature this time around, “God Games”, is not in reference to the popular genre but to a decidedly less-popular one: games about religion and faith. The cover thought piece not only […] More

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    Why should I ever visit your site?

    I took my daily visit to the GMC today to find a new PM in my PM box. It was yet again a mass PM to get people to join another ‘co.nr’ based site. The PM stated: “Excuse me, If you have a team assembled please upload your games past, present, and future games at […] More

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    Game Maker Users Helper becomes a magazine

    After the previous project, I would have thought this would have come to an end. Apparently not. They are now located at their easy to remember website, gamemakerusershelperofficialmagazine.bravehost.com. Somewhere along the road, they also fixed the “offcial” typo! You can read issue 1 (which is basically an “what is GMUH” flyer with most likely a […] More

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