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    in Blog News, Websites

    Is Game Maker News dead? Stencyl Blog.

    Scorptek’s Game Maker news blog appears to be dead, or at the very least dieing. Starting in March 2006 the blog has so far had a total of 161 posts, however the latest post on the 2nd September was the only post for that month. A little over a week ago I followed the instructions […] More

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    in Uncategorized

    MarkUp 8

    Released (Download). I liked it, it was pretty decent. This issue focuses more on the game design side (which I liked) and has lots of quality articles (quality and quantity). What did you think of it? Comment please. i wonder who that mystery writer of the initials “VP” is More

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    in Books, Reviews

    Three word book reviews

    Well actually slightly more than that. 9 words, I lied. When choosing the books Beginning 3D Game Programming: Yeahy! Sounds cool. Agile Software Development: The next best. After a quick flick through Beginning 3D Game Programming: ehh? Really? Hmm… Agile Software Development: Management waffle. Heavy. After a longer read Beginning 3D Game Programming: Not for […] More

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    in Blog News

    Linkchanges

    Over the past couple of days there have been a few minor changes to GameMakerBlog. These were mostly regarding the pages included in the main site navigation. Hopefully things should be simpler and more to the point now. In 6 months GameMaker blog has published almost as many posts as GMNews have in their entire […] More

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    in Tutorials

    Orbit Effect

    GMTV are back with a second weekend extra tutorial, this time explaining how to make a “Orbiting Effect” without using paths. Most of the tutorial seems fine although it is very fast and I hate the way that the code is given out. There is still no sign of the first full epsiode though yet. […] More

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    in Websites

    Connect with other Game Maker Websites!

    I am pleased to announce that the Game Maker Affiliation Service has now delivered over 500,000 banner impressions. That’s 500,000 extra high quality exposures for affiliation banners dynamically rotated across 23 Game Maker related websites. But do these banner views really increase traffic? The answer is a simple yes. 2,954 site visits have been received […] More

  • in Comment

    Game Maker Survey

    I like surveys. GMTutorials recently released the results of a survey they ran at the GMC, which attracted around 350 participants. The results were mostly none-surprising, unfortunately they aren’t presented in the clearest of ways. More

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    in Uncategorized

    Just a little MMORPG

    Oh yes. A real community issue 🙂 I have make 1 client and 1 server. in order to let people play to the game 24/24h, i’ve spend a little of money (10$ each month) to get a “professional” server. i’ve upload my gm server program on it, then i open it and first error : […] More

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    in Reviews, Websites

    Need a DLL or Extension?

    GMtoolbox claims to offer a database of almost every Game Maker DLL and Extension ever released to the GMC. A good clean design, lots of categories, almost 150 DLLs and to top it off a lovely AJAX search at the top of the page. Another great thing is that site is so simple to use […] More

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