Mark Smith

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    in Comment, YoYo Games

    Cynical view of 22nd September YoYo News

    More possible platforms. Nothing definite. Wait until at least next year to hear anything more. “We’ve signed a maintenance agreement with our Web Developers which means more regular site updates and tweaks. Starting next week, this will happen at least twice a month. “ Twice monthly updates, how revolutionary… More

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    in Distribution, YoYo Games

    Support YoYo Games!

    In the latest post on YoYo Games’ Glog, Sandy asks Game Maker users to support the company by introducing their “friends and family” to it. Essentially, he wants more people to click the ads on the site so they can make more money. With Instant Play now up and running, people don’t need to worry […] More

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    in Comment

    Fake blood

    gmtv.gmshack.com have finally produced their first video, a week-end extra, released on a Wednesday:   Except of course it wasn’t the first video to emerge, remember Drip Drop, LEAK and the following posts? More

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    in GMC

    Incomplete Complete Version

    Arhhh, the joys of the GMC. Indeed, the incomplete complete guide to game distribution is a recent hightlight. Commence 10-year olds giving each other free legal advice…. More

  • in Uncategorized

    In brief

    GMTech have given their website a redesign and GMKing have a new homepage My GameMaker Affilation Service has served over 375,000 button impressions so far Someone mentions the dreaded S word again, oh yes – they are going to get the needle out More

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    in Blog News

    Less crack, more ham

    No, not the latest anti-drugs message produced in association with the Royal Butchers Association of Great Britain. Instead, it’s an update on the search terms used to find GameMakerBlog. Previously (see links at end of post) the majority of the top search terms that resulted in someone clicking onto this site from Google were directly […] More

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    in Comment

    Contributing relations

    Not another GameMakerTech versus MarkUp post – oh yes. Being the controversial guy that I am I can’t leave it alone, at least not this time when I look at the differing attitudes that the magazines have with their contributors. Two magazines, tens of thousands of GameMaker users you would have thought those that had […] More

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    in Comment

    GameMaker meets real world

    Today my Computing tutor mentioned GameMaker, woot! First time in 7 years anyone in the ‘real world’ has ever brought the subject up with me. He was considering running a ‘master class’ for year 9 (14-15 year olds). I hear there is a Moodle GameMaker course somewhere, hopefully I will get a look at it. More

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    in Distribution

    Distributing games: hellhole

    Distributing games: the worst section ever. I mean, it used to be good, until somebody decided to ditch their job of moderating it at all. Straight to a list of problems: No moderation: any topics that are dumb, useless and against forum rules stay alive for days Nobody updating the pinned topics 13 year olds […] More

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    in Comment, Websites

    Top Game Maker related websites

    I started this as a small personal experiment to track which Game Maker sites were the most popular. Yes, we have Alexa traffic ranks (which many people will tell you are not worth the webspace they are hosted on), but there are also a number of other ranking sites out there. So I compiled data […] More

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