Development

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

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

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

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

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

The makers of the official Incredible Hulk game for the Nintendo DS have revealed that they made a prototype of the game using YoYo Games’ GameMaker software. In a four page article on the game development website Gamasutra developers Fizz Factor give an insight into the development process of the game. More