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[Made in GameMaker] GameDevDan vs Life Launches on Steam
GAMEDEVDANvsLIFE launches onto Steam as a compilation of 50 “Made in GameMaker” games spanning all kinds of genres ranging from: Puzzle, Racing, Arcade, Platformer and Adventure. Dan himself not only co-founded Chequered Ink Ltd, but also worked at YoYo Games for 2 years and learned GameMaker first hand. Check out the development process first hand […] More
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[Made in GameMaker] Bounce Rescue by Bitecore Studios
Bounce Rescue is a brand new game released on Steam that was made in GameMaker Studio. Great graphics, solid controls, engaging music and even multiplayer make this a shining example of the quality that can be made with GMS. I spoke to Bitecore Studios to get some developer insights and details on how they […] More
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GameMakerBlog Levels up with new IndieDevHelp initiative
GameMakerBlog announces a new initiative called: “IndieDevHelp” which aims to help Indie Developers with different aspects of creating and launching a game. As most game developers are programmers first and foremost, there are specific struggles and areas that can either be overlooked or just not completed because of time, ability or both. Above all else, […] More
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[Indie Interview] uZombie made in GameMaker!
Today I sit down with Indie Developer: Jonathon Colibaba to talk about his new android game: uZombie, a unique mobile RPG where you are not just a zombie but a Zombie Leader with intelligence. There is a myriad of features and things to do: Turn civilians, police and military into your own undead army, level […] More
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[Made in GameMaker] LetThemCome launches on Steam and Xbox with guns blazing
Endless Waves of Aliens? Big Guns? A BOOMBOX? Let Them Come has everything you need to recreate a great Rambo in space story, after all they drew first blood right? While I am pretty pumped to start mindlessly mowing down hordes of ugly looking aliens what intrigues me most is how great this game looks […] More
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Total War: WARHAMMER 2 Pre-Order Free DLC brings Winter to the Old World
Total War: WARHAMMER – Norsca Winter is Here On Aug 10, 2017, the Norsca DLC came down from the North bringing an army of ice trolls, skin wolves and Frost Wyrms upon the soft southern lands of the Empire. If you happened to pre-order Total War: Warhammer 2 (which releases September 28th) then you also got […] More
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Feedspot puts GameMaker Blog in top 50 Game Development Blogs
Feedspot Game Development Blog Awards If anyone has not read the great compilation list put out by Feedspot already; then I would fully recommend giving it a read now at Game Development Blogs as there is a wealth of information pertaining to game development blogs that some people might not have known existed. Of course, we […] More
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Albion Online: Calls out DDOS Criminals during Server Restart
Criminals demand money from Albion Online It was an interesting weekend for Albion Online; full of twists and turns, server restarts and ransom demands. To get a better feel for just how serious things got, the CEO and Founder himself took to the forum to explain what was happening: Bercilak → DDOS & Blackmailing saying that a […] More
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GMB is up for Sale!
I’m really short on time these days so I’ll keep this brief. I had high hopes when I took over the reins back in November last year. I started to implement a lot of new things and the content was coming nice and regularly. Readership is up, income is growing steadily and the subscriber count […] More
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Valve to Ditch Greenlight in Favour of Shiny New Steam Direct
On Friday, Valve, the company behind the Steam platform, announced that their current Greenlight program will be discontinued and replaced by a new, stricter, fee-based system – namely “Steam Direct”. The announcement comes less than five years since the launch of Greenlight which has allowed indie devs to publish their new titles to an enormous […] More
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Indie Insight: Vacuous
A truly addictive but equally frustrating game, Vacuous is a minimalistic action/puzzle game for Windows PC. Featuring an original soundtrack by ZABIE. The game is available right now over on itch.io for just $5. The main aim of the game is to use thrusters to make fragile bombs dance through obstacles, whilst suffering the consequences of […] More
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Indie Insight: Bit.Saw
Bit.Saw is a rage puzzle platformer by @shubshub11 that involves flipping the gravity to collect the squares (which are called “Bits”). In doing so it builds the doorway to the next level, each level is of increasing difficulty and it is sure to make you want to rip your hair out! The full version of […] More