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    in GMC

    Why I Should Become A Mod

    Someone has been at the GMC for just over a year and it seems to have gone to their head. And to think it all began with a “few hundred emails from random supporters”. Looks like someone else has too much time on their hands. I love the “quotes” though. More

  • 43 Comments

    in GMC, YoYo Games

    Gnazine, Pt. 2

    And gNAZIne, my Game Maker magazine of choice returns with a stunningly awesome second issue! This issue contains 12 whopping pages of quality text, and best of all, free advertisement to Markup, GMTech, GMTV and some other parties. What’s even better, there are no movie reviews in this time: just plain GM material (with the […] More

  • 37 Comments

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    Yay! A threat.

    It’s come it’s come. GameMaker Blog has received its first threat. Reminds of two other mildly exciting issues in the past including the leaking of a GameMaker-tv.com video (Drip Drop, LEAK) and the offence that the creator of Senseless War took to my comments on another game I reviewed for MarkUp. As threats go it […] More

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    in Comment

    TheGMRace Results

    TheGMRace is over, voting has closed. There were 186 votes and one clear winner…. who was it? Ahh well I don’t know, you will have to wait and see. The results will be announced in the next issues of MarkUp and GMTech. I voted for The Meltdown, although perhaps it is too simple to get […] More

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    in Uncategorized

    GameMaker-Tv.com Episode 2

    Bored at Christmas? The Christmas themed Epsiode 2 of Danny’s GameMaker-TV.com has been released. To quote Danny “it isn’t very good but it’s not the worst thing you can find”, and I agree. It is an improvement on the first episode, however I’m not sure that a TV show is the best way to present […] More

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    ShadePlay23’s Game Maker School

    Shadeplay23 is the mysterious man behind Game Maker School . He won’t tell you what he does for a living and claims to be both 26 and 27 at the same time on his own forum. As for his date of birth you can take your pick from the three options provided by shadeplay23 in […] More

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    TheGMRace finalists receive prizes

    TheGMRace, the Game Maker competition run by the MarkUp and GameMakerTech Magazines has dispatched prizes to the five finalists. Competition administrator Eyas Sharaiha said “the packages were sent days earlier by Robin, so the winners should expect something from Canada pretty soon.” There is still time to vote for your favourite game – which will […] More

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    December Magazine Releases

    Download GMTech Issue 9 Download MarkUp Issue 10 (December) The past few days have seen both Game Maker magazines releasing their latest issues, one considerably more seasonal than the other. MarkUp have switched to a two column layout, which I think is a big improvement over the previously favoured three-column option. But that isn’t the […] More

  • in Free Software, Reviews

    Share your Desktop Wallpaper with WallShare

    WallShare by zedman1000 is a small (2.84 MB download) program that enables you to swap and share your desktop wallpapers with other users from around the world. Downloading and Installing To get started first download the software from the WallShare website, http://wallshare.uni.cc/. Once you have downloaded the file you will need to extract the contents […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYoGames Reinstated

    In a change of fortune it has been announced by YoYoGames that they have been reinstated into Mashable’s Open Web Awards. Voting opens on Monday. What a mess. Not sure why this means so much to so many at the GMC… More

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    in YoYo Games

    YoYoGames Disqualified!

    Despite receiving around 25% of the nominations YoYo have failed to reach the final 10 nominations for Mashable’s Open Web Awards, disqualified because the nominations “came from the exact IP address several times.” YoYo’s James Peddie doesn’t seem to be too pleased, and if I were him I wouldn’t be either. In my opinion these […] More

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    in YoYo Games

    Quantity is Good

    In a message on his blog Mark has reiterated the fact that YoYoGames is for all Game Maker made games and not just the best as the total number of games on the YoYo website exceeded 10,000. This responds to some criticism on the GMC where some people have come up with the crazy idea […] More

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