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Game Maker 8 Decompiler Released

A Game Maker 8 decompiler has been released together with the decompiler’s source code, documentation on the Game Maker 8 executable file format and a list of issues with the way game data is stored. The decompiler (original GMB post) is fully functional and converts executable files created in Game Maker 8 to a .gmk […] More

by Mark Smith September 26, 2010, 5:46 pm
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Game Maker Runner for Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch [Video]

YoYo Games’ porting game of choice, Skydiver, now runs on iPad! In the video below Mike Dailly shows the arcade game running on YoYo’s runner for the Apple device without any noticeable glitches. At the time of writing there has not been any announcement from YoYo Games regarding the video. YoYo Games have now confirmed […] More

by Mark Smith September 24, 2010, 1:37 pm
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Game Maker 8 Decompiler in a Month

It’s been almost 10 months since the release of Game Maker 8.0 and games have been relatively safe due to the fact that no public decompiler was available for games made with Game Maker 8. That is until now, or at least very soon. Developers have been working to create a decompiler that will take […] More

by Mark Smith September 15, 2010, 12:54 am
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Game Maker for PSP to be shown at Polish Game Developers Convention

Our friends at the Polish Game Maker Community will be demonstrating a PSP running Chad Chisholm’s Skydiver Mach II in a game developers conference being held at Gdansk University on Sunday. Piotr Gnys from GMClan told Game Maker Blog that the game runs “really smooth” and at a stable speed. A video will be available […] More

by Mark Smith July 13, 2010, 10:26 pm
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in GameMaker Development, GameMaker for Playstation, Interviews

PSP Update and Future Game Maker Features

YoYo Games have done another interview with GMIndie. If you want your voice to be heard on the future of Game Maker it seems to be the place to be. To be fair Landon Podbielski did a good job asking questions of Mike Dailly and Russell Kay. The podcast provide the following progress update on […] More

by Mark Smith June 15, 2010, 3:11 pm
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Game Maker 9 to be written in C#

Since its initial guise as the Animo 2D animation tool Game Maker has been written in Delphi, however GameMaker Blog can reveal that Game Maker 9 will be written in C# which is an object-oriented programming language developed and maintained by Microsoft. As of Game Maker version 7 both the maker and runner sides of […] More

by Mark Smith May 26, 2010, 2:57 pm
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in GameMaker Development, YoYo Games

What do the announcements mean? Our Opinions.

Andrew and myself have taken a quick look at some of the points from today’s interview – here are our opinions, what are yours? Development of Game Maker Andrew: It was fairly predictable that all effort is currently going into the PSP version, and given YoYo Games’ aims this is most likely a good move. […] More

by Mark Smith May 2, 2010, 12:45 am
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Current thinking on Game Maker for Nintendo DS and iPhone

With the development of a runner enabling Game Maker games to run on the PSP a frequently heard question is “why not for Nintendo DS? (or DSi)”. We have covered this issue before – in short the DSi is less powerful but Mike Dailly has now provided some more information on the decision taken by […] More

by Mark Smith April 28, 2010, 5:18 pm
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Game Maker for Mac comes back

After December’s announcement that Game Maker 7 for Mac had been “delayed indefinitely” following the resignation of the the programmer responsible for building the IDE there was speculation on if and when the project would resume. Work has now continued as the original programmer has agreed to continue working on the software alongside a new […] More

by Mark Smith January 27, 2010, 1:39 pm
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Game Maker on PSP Under Development (Handheld Devices Update)

Updated Jan 15th. A couple of weeks ago we ran an article speculating on the devices which Game Maker games might be able to run on in the future. Here is a compilation of comments that have since emerged from YoYo Games on some of the possible platforms: “In 2010 we will begin an aggressive strategy to […] More

by Mark Smith January 13, 2010, 5:50 pm
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Wanted! Your 2010 Game Maker Predictions

[poll id=”14″] See also: How did our readers’ predictions for 2009 turn out Photo: …to the future by Flickr user monterd. (cc) More

by Mark Smith January 5, 2010, 5:17 pm
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Did you predict 2009?

This time last year we asked whether 2009 would see the release of Game Maker 8 and Game Maker for Mac. You thought so with these two predicitions for the year receiving the most votes in our poll (results repeated below). [poll id=”6″] Here is a look back at how the predictions fared: More

by Mark Smith January 2, 2010, 7:59 pm

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