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    The Art and Science of Programming

    Everyone new to Game Maker should read this well-written article by Rick_Slick at the GMC. Computer programming is more often an art rather than a science. You can read all the books on computer programming that you want, but unless you’re one of those people that just pick things up right away, the only way […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo announce second competition

    YoYo Games have announced the details of their second Game Maker competition. Prizes still total $1750 but this time the theme is ‘Ancient Civilisation’. I guess we can expect to see lots of Egyptian pyramids then….. ‘Ancient Civilisation’ is quite vague so leaves a wide scope but I expect we will see one or two […] More

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    63rd in the chart

    Those 64 digit songs are rubbish. So guess what, I decided to make my own one, based on Akon’s “Smack That”, which isn’t my kind of music at all. Anyway, here it is: Hack That 64 Obviously the low quality is all down the the compression and not a combination of bad singing, background noise […] More

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    64th in the charts….

    64digits have taken a break from being hacked (for a couple of days at least – the latest case being a previous staff member,) to make a song. What is the world coming to? If you really want you can listen to three versions of “Still Alive” being sung which include the phrase ’64digits’. A […] More

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    I’m Scared!

    Earlier this week an invitation appeared in my PM inbox at the GMC asking if I could review “I’m scared!” by JW Productions. I haven’t reviewed many games recently, but figured I would give it a go. The screenshots looked good. The startup screen, menu and game room looked good. And amazingly for a Game […] More

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    in Blog News

    New GMB Feature: Vote.

    You can now vote “for” or “against” posts on GameMakerBlog. If you like a post, press the green button to vote for it. If you dislike a post press the red arrow to vote against it. Based on the number of positive and negative votes received each post will be given a ‘quality’ score. That […] More

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    World premier contribution

    Hello girls and boys. Welcome to my world premier contribution to the GM blog. Unfortunately due to the FACT that I’m rather busy At the moment, drawing phony moustaches on my own face, I don’t have time to write anything specifically. However what I can do is provide a link to a 3 page article […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYoGames Press Release Jan 21st 2008

    I haven’t seen this at the YoYo blog yet, but this is a press release from YoYoGames (January 21st, 2008). Finally we can see what YoYo think of themselves… “10,000 games uploaded in 200 days represents a ground breaking achievement for YoYo Games, a start-up games company which looks set to shake up the booming […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYo Games: what would make the website much better

    I’m not quite satisfied with the YoYoGames.com website: it certainly is lacking in many, many directions. And it has been having numerous of stability problems in the last month. I have written a complete list of necessary improvements to YYG.com, for everybody. I will divide these arguments into multiple categories: “Profile” and “Gaming”. Profile will […] More

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    Exclusive Interview with Winter Competition winner

    A week ago YoYoGames announced the results of their $1750 winter games competition, the winner of which was “Frozzd” by 2DCube. Courtesy of GMKing’s open forum policy information submitted by applicants for positions at the MarkUp magazine can be viewed by any member of the public – you don’t even have to be registered. A […] More

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    MarkUp Blues

    The MarkUp website is looking blue. A big improvement on the old version I think, especially because of the addition of the “All issues” page which enables you to quickly and easily download back issues. The GMKing.org forums have also been simplified. And a new promotional banner has been released, which reminds me of something […] More

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