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I swear it was yesterday when I last made one of these posts! Here at GameMaker Blog, we wish you a happy new year! (Like the last 2 years, this post was scheduled to be published at midnight server time.) More

Five most read articles in 2009: For a time in 2007 YoYo Games were hosting a Game Maker 7 Pro crack in their resources section.  Despite being notified of its existence it remained online for at least a month. Scirra’s Construct is an open source free game development tool.  In January I spoke with one of the people […] More

Voting has opened in GameMakerBlog.com’s 2009 Game Maker community awards.  Thank you to everyone who nominated candidates they thought deserving of recognition for the services they provide to Game Maker users. You may vote once in each category upto the 31st of December.  The votes will then be checked and the winners announced on January […] More

Yes, it’s that time of the year again.  We have just entered December and already we are looking back at the past 11 months with our second annual Community Awards. To quote from the 2008 nominations post: “In an attempt to focus more on the wider-community surrounding Game Maker than just the GMC, forum members […] More

Yesterday a post was made on this site which claimed to show a leaked screenshot of Game Maker 8. The image supplied was clearly not genuine and I would have thought this would be blatantly obvious to anyone viewing it.  Therefore I was extremely disappointed to logon this morning and see that our latest article […] More

I am pleased to announce that Game Maker Blog has a new team member.  Matt Scorah (aka scoz) is the latest to join the blogging line up and is our first new blogger in six months. Matt is a University student from Australia with an interest in the Game Maker media scene.  He is currently working on […] More

Voting in the four remaining categories of Game Maker Blog’s Community Awards has ended, with a total of over 250 votes being made.  The results have been checked and the final figures are posted below. The voting in “Best source of Game Maker tutorials and/or examples” surprised me as this was the award that had received the most votes, despite […] More

They were requested for 2007, so here they are for 2008 – the most popular posts of the year on GameMaker Blog. Most discussed posts (comments this year): Prodigy GM gone for good? (51 comments) – “Everyone’s favourite” GameMaker site appeared to be gone. It didn’t last. YoYo host GameMaker 7 Pro Crack (44 this […] More

For a while now I have been looking to update the theme on GameMaker Blog to give it a fresh look and, more importantly, a better implementation of listing post comments. So from today we are using a new theme suggested by GMB writer gamez93.  The new look gives a wider portion of the page […] More

Voting has now closed! The results can be found here. The nominations process has now closed and voting can commence in GameMaker Blog’s very own awards which hopes to showcase the producers of the best Game Maker resources. You may vote once in each category upto the 31st of December. The votes will then be verified […] More

You may or may not be aware of the “Official Game Maker Awards” in which Game Maker Community members vote for their favourite games and forum users of the year. This competition bizarrely started in April and appears to have been endorsed by the GMC administrators even though they having nothing to do with the […] More