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Successful Game Makers Publish Mini-Documentary – “INDIE”

GameMaker users Elias Viglione and Jussi Kukkonen from Panic Art Studios have released a mini-documentary called “INDIE”. The film was posted on YouTube and announced on the pair’s social media platforms, as well as on the GameMaker Community forums. Viglione was mentioned in our recent post, 5 GameMaker Success Stories. INDIE seems to draw inspiration […] More

by Mark Smith October 23, 2013, 6:47 am
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Russell Kay Interviewed On Microsoft Development Radio

Following a recent interview with CEO Sandy Duncan, YoYo Games CTO Russell Kay has also been interviewed on Microsoft Development Radio, using the time to explain his view on the differences between using ‘Drag & Drop’ and code in GameMaker. You can watch the video below. More

by Mark Smith July 4, 2013, 10:32 am
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Sandy Duncan Interviewed On Microsoft Development Radio

In a video released by Microsoft Development Radio, CEO Sandy Duncan of YoYo Games has spoken of the potential that GameMaker holds for Windows developers as well as outlining several large developments users can look forward to. You can watch the video below. More

by Mark Smith June 24, 2013, 9:53 am
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Exclusive: Interview With The GameMaker Community Hacker

Just over a month ago, Game Maker Blog reported that the popular GameMaker Community forums had been hacked. YoYo Games, the company who own the GameMaker program and operate the board, estimated that between 5000-8000 user accounts had been compromised by a password logging script. They were wrong. Game Maker Blog has hosted an exclusive […] More

by Mark Smith April 22, 2013, 6:30 pm
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Cactus Interview, GMCG Released, Adobe to Stop Mobile Browser Flash Development

Jonatan SÃ¶derstrÃ¶m aka Cactus is the latest Game Maker developer to have been interviewed at indie game interview site Quote Unquote. In the interview Jonatan says he make games, plays in two bands and drink beer and has managed to live off donations. The Game Maker Community Game has been released. The release is titled […] More

by Mark Smith November 9, 2011, 1:53 pm
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Comment: YoYo Abandoning Game Maker Roots?

Game Maker is changing rapidly. Gone are the days of ‘Lite’ and ‘Pro’. For the veterans of Game Maker, the nostalgic days where users would refer to the paid version as ‘full’ and when Softwrap hadn’t yet dipped its troublesome hand into community, are a world away. Future Game Maker users will be given more […] More

by Mark Smith September 8, 2011, 8:52 pm
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MoaCube – Game Maker Indie Game Studio

MoaCube are a team of programmers and artists who have released one game and are working on two new titles. Headed by “professional indie developer” Tom Grochowiak they use GameMaker to build their games. Although a new name, MoaCube essentially consists of those who worked on existing titles alongside Tom. Magi, a strategy “wizard dueling” […] More

by Mark Smith May 17, 2011, 10:54 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: Game Maker 8.1 and beyond

In this section: Game Maker 8.1, C++ Runner, Game Maker Mac, Game Maker Linux?, Game Maker 9?, Bug reports, Future of YoYo Games The Software Russell is working on including in Game Maker 8.1 something that supports distributing games. I wouldn’t call it DRM in the strictest sense but you can’t just put the games […] More

by Mark Smith March 5, 2011, 10:18 am
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Sandy Duncan Interview: Game Maker HTML5 Addon

In this section: Game Maker to HTML5 export, Game Maker to ActionScript discussion Sandy Duncan: For 4 years we’ve had an on-off discussion about whether or not we could make a Game Maker for ActionScript, we decided that you could but you would have to take a big leap from bitmap to vector graphics and […] More

by Mark Smith March 3, 2011, 5:00 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: App Publishing Process

In this section: Publishing Apps, YoYo Game Store: Approval, Process, Publishing Agreement, app performance, support for serious developers, giving access to runners to third parties. Sandy Duncan: When publishing we try to choose games which we know aren’t pushing the limits of Game Maker to the extreme because we don’t know how far we can […] More

by Mark Smith March 2, 2011, 10:38 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview: How YoYo Games Really Started & PSP

In this section: Founding YoYo Games Ltd, Mark Overmars and Game Maker, Writing runners for different hardware and PSP. Sandy Duncan: I’ll go back to how YoYo Games really started, there were a bunch of us paid by a Venture Capital firm to come up with some ideas for them. There was me, James North-Hearn […] More

by Mark Smith March 2, 2011, 2:11 pm
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Sandy Duncan Interview – Coming Soon

Earlier today I spoke with YoYo Games CEO Sandy Duncan and asked him about App publishing, Game Maker 8.1, Game Maker for Mac, the HTML5 runner and company itself. I was hoping to post a recording of our conversation here but Sandy asked that I instead publish edited transcripts. I will do so covering various topics in […] More

by Mark Smith March 2, 2011, 12:52 pm

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