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Is GameMaker Studio Master Collection Worth It?

Are you wondering if GameMaker Studio Master Collection is worth the hefty asking price? YoYo Games, the company behind the massively popular development engine, want you to think it is. Despite the allure of “free modules” and apparent “savings”, the offer is not as clear-cut as you might imagine. The Master Collection is the most […] More

by Mark Smith April 5, 2013, 1:20 pm
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YoYo Under Fire for “Unfair Pricing”

YoYo Games has been criticized for imbalanced pricing of the GameMaker: Studio Master Collection following the recent launch of the Ubuntu module. GMC member Jobo, who owns a copy of GameMaker: Studio Professional and has been a member of the official community forum for five years, accused YoYo Games of not taking care of those […] More

by Mark Smith March 14, 2013, 2:44 pm
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Tom Grochowiak on GameMaker for Professional Developers

Tom Grochowiak blogs about the love-hate relationship he has with GameMaker as a professional game developer. Under the MoaCube banner Tom has been the main developer on the Magi and ArcMagi magic strategy games and the upcoming Cinders visual novel Dividing his thoughts into sections focusing on the good and bad aspects of GameMaker as he sees them […] More

by Mark Smith January 9, 2012, 10:57 pm
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Comment: Why the Linux Port Will Flop

During early December we saw a surprising image of what appeared to be a port of Game Maker to Linux. Yet the excitement YoYo may have wanted to build, using the screenshot of the program running on a Fedora distribution, may not be manifesting itself as strongly as they had hoped. I for one saw […] More

by Mark Smith December 4, 2011, 4:23 pm
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New YoYoGames.com Homepage Design

Having recently employed Paul Cosgrove alongside Lee Turner YoYo Games are currently in the process of redesigning areas of their website to attract more professional developers to their game creation software. In an attempt to focus on the expanded capabilities of GameMaker itself, user created games are moved away from the homepage to an internal page on [...]

by Mark Smith June 11, 2011, 4:47 pm
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Designing for Hardcore Gamers and Casual Gamers

There are so many different potential players of your game and it can be hard to make your game suit different tastes. Here I examine two broad gamer definitions that can be expand into many more. Hardcore Gamers You can always pick one out of a group of people; they eat, sleep, dream, and talk […] More

by Mark Smith January 11, 2011, 12:29 am
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Thoughts on the iOS ‘Compiler’ and Response at YoYo Games

It’s not a decompiler Firstly I’ll start with a definition. I wanted to address this issue earlier but misjudged the pace at which the story would develop. Game Maker code is not compiled it is interpreted. Every time a distributed Game Maker game is played the interpreter (runner) does as instructed by in-game GML. Therefore […] More

by Mark Smith January 6, 2011, 1:29 am
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Guest Post: A Career in the Games Industry

The game industry is a steadily growing market. If you are a gamer, pursuing a job in video game design could be a great way to turn your hobby into a substantial money making career. If you know a little about the process of designing a game. You may know that a team of individuals […] More

by Mark Smith December 11, 2010, 6:27 pm
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Game Maker: A solution to growing fragmentation of the mobile games sector?

It appears that YoYo Games are trying to encourage mobile application developers to switch to using Game Maker by promising cross-platform support. Android applications are written in Java, whilst Apps for the iPhone and iPad must be written using C, C++ or Objective-C. With the recent release of Windows 7 Mobile increasing amounts of development […] More

by Mark Smith November 15, 2010, 1:15 pm
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GMIndie Plan 250-page Game Maker eBook

GMIndie are working on an ambitious project to create a series of Game Maker eBooks – the first which will provide an introduction to the software scheduled for release in July 2010. The idea for a comprehensive tutorial series reminds me of Carl Gustafsson’s Beginners Guide to Game Maker Programming, a long unofficial introduction to […] More

by Mark Smith April 20, 2010, 3:58 pm
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Who is making money from Game Maker?

Before we start yes I am aware that people choose to use Game Maker as a hobby, to learn how to program or to meet new friends from around the world. Money is not the reason why tens of thousands of people opt to download and use Game Maker every year or the reason why […] More

by Mark Smith February 16, 2010, 11:21 am
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Indie Game Mag – Why would anyone buy this?

A serious question this. Indie Game Magazine is a paid for 6-issues-a-year publication, available both online and in print, that features reviews of Indie games and articles aimed at the creators of such titles. The cheapest normal subscription price is $19.95 a year (about $3.30 an issue) with an extra $5 on top if you […] More

by Mark Smith January 31, 2010, 7:40 pm

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