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5 Ways to Avoid Vaporware

Vaporware; software or hardware that is announced and never released, nor officially cancelled. Or as I see it, the fate of most GM projects. It is a sad truth. Many Game Maker users will announce tonnes of new games, applications, and concepts in their time at the GMC, but so many of those projects will never see […] More

by Mark Smith December 11, 2011, 12:41 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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2011 Game Maker Predictions: 6 Months On

At the start of the year we conducted our annual prediction poll in which 7 proposals about the future of Game Maker were put forward to vote on. 170 readers took part and indicated which they thought would occur during the year. Now, halfway through what has already been an eventful year in the development […] More

by Mark Smith July 2, 2011, 9:58 pm
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An exploration of Game Maker Zombie Top Down Shooter Games

Zombies. Just that one word is enough to make most members of the Game Maker community roll their eyes and think of hoards of bland, boring and dull games. Is this just generalisation, are they better than that? Are there unique, fascinating games out there which people are missing, because they can’t get over their […] More

by Mark Smith March 8, 2011, 11:36 pm
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GMare – Open Source Game Maker Room Editor

Michael Mercado has released an early version of an open source alternative to the built in Game Maker room editor, GMare. Written in C# the editor features a zoom, tile fill and many other tile features. Admittedly this would have been much more useful if it was released months or even years back, given that […] More

by Mark Smith February 12, 2011, 2:21 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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GMCG Project Scrapped – Leaders Step Down and Smaller Game Planned

GMC moderator Takagi posted yesterday explaining that the Game Maker Community Game, until-now focused on a game named Eve, will begin to take a different route. Instead of a planned large RPG the team will downsize the project to something a little less ambitious. The details are still being worked out but the the team […] More

by Mark Smith September 16, 2010, 12:50 am
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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

by Mark Smith June 7, 2010, 1:02 pm
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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

by Mark Smith May 20, 2010, 4:22 pm
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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

by Mark Smith May 15, 2010, 9:18 pm
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Game Maker for PSP – Second Video

YoYo Games have released a new video showing the progress of porting the Game Maker runner to PSP. As in the first video the demonstrated game is Chad Chisholm’s Skydiver. There was also some news on the process for getting created games onto the PSP. “PSP games will have to be submitted to YoYo games […] More

by Mark Smith May 4, 2010, 1:28 pm
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First video of Game Maker for PSP

Below is a video demonstrating Game Maker for PSP running a none-modified version of Chad Chisholm’s Skydiver. There game is in a playable state but there are some problems with speed, a few graphical glitches and background music has not yet been implemented. More

by Mark Smith March 10, 2010, 10:10 am

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