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    Winter Competition Results

    YoYo’s five judges have announced the results of their $1750 winter competition. The panel was made up of Sandy Duncan, Mark Overmars, Jim, Michel and Clayts. A total of 236 games were uploaded covering a wide range of gameplay and of course quality. There had been some complaints by users entering the competition regarding the […] More

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    In other news

    It’s more deserving of the YoYo name than the GameMaker owners, it’s 64digits. On the fourth the site was taken down because a member had found an exploit, again. Sadly it is now back online. More

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    YoYo Release Stats

    Sandy Duncan from YoYo Games has released some stats on the popularity of their website on his blog. “The website today gets,on average about 25,000 visitors per day. When you’re here you spend more than 7 minutes on each visit and view more than 8 pages on the website. If I include the “Beta” and […] More

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    January Magazines (MarkUp 11, GMTech 10)

    January is quite an interesting time of the year to look at the magazines. Both because of the possibility of the magazines introducing new features and changes, and because over the Christmas period there could have been either a torrent or lack of submissions depending on the particular contributers. Download MarkUp Issue 11 | Download […] More

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    YoYo Games Accounts

    Have you ever wondered how much YoYo had in the bank at the end of 2006, or perhaps who the shareholders and directors are? Me neither, I’d much prefer to have the figures for 2007 which is, after all, when they were founded isn’t it? Actually no (more on that later). A trip to Companies […] More

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    Happy New Year

    …The people who are in a “now 2008-enabled timezoneTM“. (Sorry Phil, but every blog *needs* to have an obligatory “new year” post) [ Note: This post was scheduled to go off at New Year server-time. ] More

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    TheGMRace Results Revealed

    The MarkUp game development magazine has announced the results of thegmrace in its January 2008 mini-issue. I am quite surprised that so many of you, 61% in fact, agreed with me and voted for The Meltdown as your favourite finalist. Congratulations are in order for Jelle Straatsma (17), creator of the game. More information and […] More

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    The Year. 2007.

    2007 has come and gone. Here, by request, is a list of the most popular posts on GameMakerBlog which has been online since April. Most discussed posts Gnazine, Pt. 2 (34 comments) by tuntis This, ummmm, ‘magazine’ has returned with a second issue. God help us. Yay! A Threat. (33) ShadePlay wasn’t too happy that […] More

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    High scorez

    …Fix them already, Nate! EDIT: It’s about time the instructions go off: please do not advice people on how to exploit their script. – t, 23:28 GMT +2, 31 Dec. 2007 More

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    YoYo Games

    Why is it that ever since GM got on the YoYo train, the GMC started getting a sudden flood of an average of 5 (this is a Probably Not CorrectTM statistic) complaint and/or problem topics a day? It’s just whining of Softwrap, issues with their (ugh) Rails powered website or just general complaining? Come to […] More

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