GMC

A new game maker game reviews forum will soon be opening at the official Game Maker Community.  Created in response to a recent request for more high quality reviews the currently empty section will showcase “selected reviews of GM games that the reviewer thinks are noteworthy and deserve attention.” Writing on the GMC administrator KC LC […] More

It has been over a month now since the Game Maker Community Game has begun, and for those who are entering concept fresh it may seem like there is very little to show for the Herculean effort that has taken place. However, the deceiving lack of anything concrete belies the sheer amount of developmental work […] More

A foolish GMC user has been caught decompiling a Sound Recorder application hosted on YoYo Games.  ev149 posted in the Community section of the official Game Maker forum with a problem he had experienced with Game Maker “when I try to open a sprite, object, or script, no buttons show up” providing a screenshot to demonstrate the issue. […] More

Spam via Personal Messages (PMs) has long been an irritant at the GMC as after creating an account there was previously no limit on the number of PMs a user could send. Hence usernames could be harvested en mass and messages touting the value of brand name trainer replicas, anatomy enlargement products and 3-member hastily […] More

As of  today the idea pitched by grimmjow on April 17th, has taken course as the very first Game Maker Community Game has been started. “The Game Maker Community Game (GMCG) is a game created together by the community, hence the name. It was sparked by some interest in a community topic: A GMC compiled […] More

A small number of GMC members are kicking up a fuss claiming long time member Games, who managed to ‘hijack’ James Rhodes‘ account, should have his recently instated ban from the forums reversed. If you read James’ account of the story he did give his password to Games… “Unfortunately, a GMC user called Games recently obtained my […] More

KC LC recently announced the retirement of a GMC administrator, Damaged . Damaged was the second user to register on the GMC right after Mark Overmars and has been around since the community was born. Damaged is now classified as a new category: “Retired Staff” along with all of the other retired staff. More

In typical GMC Community section chaos two posts made just a few days apart express deeply different views as to the livelihood and success of the official Game Maker forums today.  Less than a week after Why This Community Survives was published Is This Forum Dead Now?  Where is everyone? appeared. The community surrounding Game […] More