Game Maker 8

Yesterday YoYo Games revealed the new logo that will be used to represent Game Maker 8. As expected some members of the community have been very vocal in their opposition to it with one petition attracting 500 signatures in 18 hours asking for the logo to be replaced. I expect that between them the signatories […] More

YoYo Games’ Sandy Duncan has confirmed that Game Maker 8 will sell for the same price as its predecessor Game Maker 7 – $25.  Of course this excludes those of you who have purchased (or will purchase) a Game Maker 7 upgrade at any time during 2009 as these purchasers are entitled to a free […] More

Update: The full version of Game Maker 8 has been released. A second Game Maker 8 release candidate has been made available for testing by YoYo Games. As of yet there has not been an official announcement that this is available but it can be downloaded here (5.5MB .exe). It is now less certain that […] More

I stumbled across four entries submitted to the Game Maker 8 logo contest uploaded to the Flickr account of Sandy Duncan.  Presumably these have made the final.  The competition rules stated that there would be five runners-up so perhaps the winning entry is absent. Click on the thumbnails below to view the logos. [nggallery id=4] [poll […] More

28 days ago, Sandy Duncan announced that he would be holding a competition to see who could make the best new logo for GM8. Earlier today, he announced that the time for submitting your entries has now come to a close. The winners(s) will be picked out of the 500+ submissions that were entered by […] More

There has been a lot of vocal opposition to the use of the Softwrap DRM protection of Game Maker 7.  Users have reported that the software would un-register itself, that they had problems installing Game Maker on secondary computers and of problems receiving support almost from day one – over two years ago. Last month we […] More

If you purchased Game Maker 7 Pro this year you can have a free upgrade to Game Maker 8 Pro. Writing today on the YoYo Games blog Sandy Duncan said “if you PAID for Game Maker 7 any time in 2009 we will be offering a free upgrade to Game Maker 8″.   YoYo Games’ […] More

The second beta version of Game Maker 8 has been released and can be downloaded from the Mantis bug-tracker. The feature list remains that same as for the first beta, which was released at the start of July, however there have been a number of small additions and some bug fixes and changes which are […] More

Compare and contrast: Game Maker 7 registration/upgrade instructions: More