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    Game Maker for Mac out “by July”

    In a post on the YoYo Games blog Sandy has written that a final release candidate of Game Maker 7 for Mac should be out in the next fortnight. After a week of testing it is then hoped that a final general release version will be made available by July. Game Maker for Mac has […] More

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    Like YoYo Games Ltd?

    You can’t become a fan of YoYo Games Ltd but now you can join their official Facebook group. If you ever wanted to expose your personal Facebook account to Game Maker users now you can! The first thing posted on the group is a video showing one of the competition 5 runners up, Pixelry by […] More

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    48 Hours of Game Maker Development in 5 Minutes

    A couple of weeks ago Xerus (Kyle Pulver) released a timelapse video showing the development of his island-defence game Gaiadi sped up to fit in under 5 minutes. The game was created for entry into Ludum Dare 17 which it won. Ludum Dare is the name given to a series of 48-hour game creation contests […] More

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    “Linked” Online Game Maker Highscores

    A new online highscores system for Game Maker has been launched. Linked which is part of the UpUrLoad file hosting website utilises 39dll to make it easy to maintain a global highscores table. Created tables can be viewed directly within your game (there is no need to launch a browser window when sending or retrieving scores). Scores […] More

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    Ten Years of Game Maker 1999-2009

    It is 10 years to the day since Mark Overmars released the first public version of Game Maker, 1.1.  Since then Game Maker has undergone huge changes with the addition of Game Maker Language scripting, the introduction of many more drag and drop icons and functions, 3D, particles and extensions. The userbase has grown from […] More

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    Game Maker 8: Release Candidate

    Mark Overmars has posted a Release Candidate of Game Maker 8 online for users to test. It can be downloaded here (5.47 MB). As with the previous beta version bugs should be posted on the mantis bug tracker. “This is the RELEASE CANDIDATE of Game Maker 8.0 that is only meant for testing. It will […] More

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    2009 Predictions: 6 months on

    At the start of the year we asked readers of this blog to predict whether or not certain events would happen this year.  Now six months on how have the predictions fared? 55% of you thought that the mac version of Game Maker would be released.  At the end of last year we had just […] More

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    Second Game Maker Mac beta sent to testers

    Marc Simpson, YoYo Games’  “in-house programmer and occasional system admin” has this evening, Saturday 27th, sent the second version of the Game Maker 7 mac beta to those enrolled in the closed beta testing programme. On Sunday 28th Sandy added a message to testers  “This is much more stable, though not completely bug free.  We […] More

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    YoYo Games plan to port Game Maker to mobiles

    YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan has reiterated his intention to enable Game Maker games to be played on mobile phones in the future. Just over a  year ago he announced “Our vision is for Game Maker games to be running on non PC platforms such as phones, portable devices and Consoles“.¹  Today in response to a […] More

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