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GMC Jam #6 – 72 Hour Competition

The GameMaker Community is hosting its 6th GMC Jam, a 72 hour game development competition run by members of the forum. This event is being held over a weekend at the end of the month, Saturday 28th to Monday 30th April. Participants are encouraged to use an optional theme, and a special handicap has also […] More

by Mark Smith April 17, 2012, 6:05 am
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Community Links: Game Maker Studio release “shortly after” Grave Maker

YoYo Games’ first social game Grave Maker demonstrates popular Game Maker product’s versatilityGame Maker Studio is to be released “shortly after” GraveMaker. A beta of GraveMaker is currently available online ahead of a planned simultaneous launch in February on iOS, Android and Facebook. Money and the App store: a few figures that might help an […] More

by Mark Smith January 15, 2012, 8:53 pm
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Roan Contreras collects 3 awards at Philippine Game Development Festival

Roan Contreras picked up three awards for his GameMaker game Circle Speedster at last weekends Philippine Game Development Festival. The Filipino bagged the prizes for Innovation, Best PC game and Best Indie Game at the event held at De La Salle – College of Saint Benilde in Manila. Roan writes that the event was “the best […] More

by Mark Smith December 15, 2011, 12:52 pm
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GMC Moderators Neglect Infected Program?

A Game Maker creation, released under the ‘Tools & Applications’ section of the Game Maker Community, was not been dealt with by staff at the website for several days despite alarm from users at the forum. “Easy Ragdoll v1.0” was published by GMC member Locknar, who released the program on the 7th of December, the […] More

by Mark Smith December 12, 2011, 12:50 pm
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Community Links: Stencyl iOS Exporter Price, Piotr in Dundee, Dustforce

The pricing details for Stencyl’s iOS exporter has been announced. A $149 a year subscription will enable users to publish their games to the iTunes store providing they have an Apple Developer account. A free version exists but this watermarks creations and doesn’t allow for publishing to the store. Stencyl also recently nice promo on […] More

by Mark Smith December 10, 2011, 10:25 pm
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SzczecinGamesShow – GM stand from community

During last weekend there was game expo event in Szczecin (Poland), where guys from Polish community got their own stand. Promotion of GameMaker as game dev tool for programmers and non-programmers, presentation on stage for all visitors, games made in GameMaker playable on stand – that’s how it was looking. Mainly there was shown two […] More

by Mark Smith November 28, 2011, 10:24 pm
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Game Maker Obfuscator – Now Supports Sprite Obfuscation

Schreib has updated the Game Maker Obfuscator so that it supports version 8.1 of GameMaker. One of the new included features is sprite obfuscation whereby sprites are only constructed when the game starts running. The Game Maker Obfuscator can be downloaded from the GMC. More

by Mark Smith October 2, 2011, 8:26 pm
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GMClan at SzczecinGamesShow

by Mark Smith June 12, 2011, 8:36 pm
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New Game Maker Media Team to Launch: indie(Function);

Bret Hudson is planning to launch a “new indie game development media and education team” which he has named indie(Function);. indie(Function) will initially consist of indie(Magazine), indie(Radio) and “indie(Books)”. Bret states that the group hope to continue projects abandoned by GMIndie when it merged into GMVision last September. Since then GMVision have not released any […] More

by Mark Smith June 11, 2011, 2:59 pm
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Game Maker Survey 2010 – The Results

Just over three thousand people took part in the Game Maker survey organised by Brian Fetcher/GMIndie/GMVision. A 72 page PDF document listing the results has now been released. Where the questions were multiple choice the percentages are given and for write-in questions a selection of answers have been shown. View survey results: PDF, Google Docs. More

by Mark Smith September 22, 2010, 10:14 pm
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GMVision takes over GMIndie

I wondered why GMVision, creators of a Game Maker video show and previously the GMLive Game Maker radio, had collaborated with the over-ambitious GMIndie to run the recent poorly implemented Game Maker Survey. Things obviously ran a little deeper than I thought as it appears that GMVision has now taken over complete control of GMIndie. Looking […] More

by Mark Smith September 19, 2010, 12:21 am
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GMIndie and GMVision Game Maker Survey: Poorly Implemented

GMIndie and GMVision have launched ‘Game Maker Survey 2010’ a collection of 60 questions designed to ask about your usage of Game Maker and collect opinions on various aspects of Game Maker. I waited a couple of days after I first saw (and started but did not finish) the survey to see if others shared […] More

by Mark Smith August 30, 2010, 1:40 pm

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