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57 games were made and submitted in the recent 3rd GMC GameJam. You can vote for your favourite games up until 13th August. Issue 8 of indieMagazine [pdf] was released earlier this week. The company behind the Unity Game Engine has secured $12 million in funding from existing investor Sequoia and Chinese and Singapore based […] More

Uriel Griffin was the guest interviewee in this week’s indie(Radio) and indie(Magazine). Writing of his use of GameMaker for Mac Uriel states that “we’ve made around 2,500 dollars” from the Mac App Store. Presumably this “we” encompasses the total revenues which are split between original game developers such as Jesse Venbrux and Uriel who modifies […] More

Jesse Venbrux is to give a talk entitled Creating addictive gameplay in They Need To Be Fed at the Casual Connect games industry event. Casual Connect takes place in Seattle next week – details. Quote Unquote have published two interviews with former GameMaker users. Charlie Ngo currently attends Digipen College in Washington whilst Noel Berry now focus on Flashpunk development. […] More

A guide by Mark Overmars entitled Designing Successful iPhone and Android Games with GameMaker was added to YoYoGames.com when it was given its new design. The .pdf document outlines some criteria which make a game suitable for mobile play and explains how games should be implemented in Game Maker including using virtual on-screen keys and […] More

GameSalad, a Mac-only easy iPhone game creation tool, has added support for HTML5.  HTMLGrind, VentureBeat We are yet to see a working example of a GameMaker created HTML5 game so can not be sure how its performance will compare with a PC, iOS or Android GameMaker game.  At the Scirra Forums some benchmarking tests have […] More

The first issue of indie(Magazine) was released at the start of the week.   Much of the content is similar to that included in the recent first indie(radio) show.  As I am aware this is the first Game Maker magazine to publish an issue in 2011, this is in contrast to the large numbers we have seen […] More

The first public version of StencylWorks was released at the start of the month.  The free StencylWorks game creation tool has been in development for at least 4 years. Originally Stencyl was intended to be an open source engine to easily develop Java games, however it was repositioned before release as a Scratch-like blockbuilder.  StencylWorks now uses […] More

Multiplatform Game Maker .ogg Extension MoaCube’s Marius Utheim has written and released the first cross-platform Game Maker extension enabling .ogg audio files which can be used in both GameMaker 8.1 and GameMaker for Mac. Rocket Party Giveaway Vetra Games are giving away 30 copies of Rocket Party on Mac. Prizes will be given to followers […] More

Quote Unquote, a blog featuring interviews with indie game developers, yesterday posted an interview with Jeph Wacheski. Some of Jeph’s older games were made using Game Maker but now he uses the lightweight zGameEditor.  In the interview Jeph outlines the reasons he favours zGameEditor over YoYo Games’ Game Maker but suggests that he could return […] More

Mike Dailly has blogged about the GameMaker 8.1 3D speed improvements he has been working on (see earlier post). In the next update he plans to introduce static 3D models alongside the dynamic models currently used in GameMaker. I came across a rotator which brings up random games from YoYo Games. If you are looking […] More

Grabeorama has had a brief look at some YoYoGames.com stats which show that the most popular game on the website, Crimelife 2, receives around 10,000 new plays a month and that 17% of all plays on the site have been of just the top 20 games. Vertigo Gaming have added some discount game bundles to […] More