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    The GMPlanet Effect

    A month on from the launch of game maker news aggregator gmplanet I have decided to examine if it has had an effect on GameMaker Blog’s traffic levels as I feared it may. In January one of GameMakerBlog.com’s top referrers, gamemaker.info, sent 114 visits our way. In February however this reduced to just 43 visits, […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo to go Instant Play only

    YoYo Games planned to do away with the download option on their website, and instead only allow games to be played via their “InstantPlay” technology. Another reason to avoid YoYo it seems. Fortunately other people agreed that this was not what they wanted, forcing Sandy to respond: “What I’m now proposing to do is add […] More

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    GMC Registration Problems

    Lovely, the GMC admins have just realised that an error in their almost-3-years-old script has prevented registrations for the past week or so. Not much has been happening recently, quite a disappointment really. Guess we are just waiting for YoYo to cause another controversy to kick things off. Oh, and GameMakerTech issue 11 should be […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo Games – One year on from GameMaker 7

    It has been a year since the first (and only) release of Game Maker under YoYo Games Ltd. A year which has seen the rise of YoYoGames.com, plenty of registration problems and, as is so often the case with Game Maker related matters, a lot of controversy. Timeline of YoYo Games Ltd Oct 15th 2004: […] More

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    GMTV Title Sequence

    Danny has released a video showing the evolution of the GameMaker-TV.com introduction sequence. Not something I was expecting. It’s all well and good making this video which I suppose could be of interest to GMTV enthusiasts, but with only two full episodes made I can’t help but feel this was released a year too early […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo to invest $5M in Game Maker

    Three quick snippets of news from YoYo Games Ltd: Sandy has quietly mentioned that YoYo plan to invest $5M into the Game Maker software and their website. “we are planning to spend almost $5M on Game Maker and YoYo Games over the next 2 years. We’ve all been pretty successful in business so far, but […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    GameMaker on Linux?

    Writing on PascalGameDevelopment.com, savage, working for SumoDigital (the company working on porting GameMaker) has written The games are not the things are being ported, but the IDE and engine are. The IDE creates the game files these are then fed into the engine. The same game files works on both Win32 and Mac OS X […] More

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    MarkUp 12

    The MarkUp game maker magazine has released its 12th monthly issue making it the first Game Maker magazine to last this long. The 50 pages contain only 3 reviews, but a good number of editorials, tutorials and couple of decent game development journals. More

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    in Comment, YoYo Games

    YoYo Games hint at Revenue Sharing

    Sandy from YoYo Games has hinted at the introduction of a revenue sharing scheme for games hosted on their website. Sometime later this year we will make some big changes to the way that this site works and many of you will have the opportunity to earn some money for the games that you have […] More

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    GM Arcade

    It appears this is the first post on GameMaker Blog or gmnews about this site which actually astonishes me. GMArcade is a new website that enables you to play a selection of Game Maker creations from your browser, in a similar fashion to YoYo Games’ “Instant Play” feature through the use of a Java Applet. […] More

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    Yet Another Magazine

    …Although this one is actually decent awesome. Russell’s Quarterly doesn’t really have that much of an focus on Game Maker, but game design instead, with reviews of the games Hunter’s Island, Fedora Spade, Death Worm and Shush. It’s also a 72 page read. …And an awesome simplistic black and white layout that doesn’t lag Acrobat to […] More

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    in GMC

    GameMakerTech have standards

    It appears GameMakerTech have standards – hurrah! Mod gets confused at the GMC – well ‘automation’ and sellmygmgame don’t really go together… Mod gets helpful – obviously anyone not understanding GMC errors is stupid More

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