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Jonatan Söderström aka cactus had his website featured in Time.com’s 50 greatest websites of 2010. Whilst the list may be a bit premature being published being published with four more months to go it is an impressive achievement as it is listed alongside the well known Kongregate and Newgrounds and well known sites from other […] More

On Friday evening I discovered that YoYo Games has a page on Encyclopedia Dramatica.  Mentioned are the rating system, the “glog” and the original choice of Game Maker 8 logo.  There are also a couple of quotes by site users as well as a “Sandy Duncan logic” section. Last week I started writing a review of […] More

Paul Eres’ tower defence game Immortal Defense is now permanently available to buy for any amount over $1.75.   Effectively it’s a pay what you want sale but a minimum price has been enforced to ensure some of the money actually gets to Paul.  GamePolitics writes that the pay what you like concept “has proven to […] More

The latest issue of PC Powerplay Magazine has a section looking at the various game development tools which are available. Game Maker is one piece of featured software and there is also a brief interview with Auntie Pixelante. Download the pdf at UpUrLoad (left click only).  Via Shadow_Lancer. rcollet is looking for someone to design […] More

Many of the bugs reported so far by testers of the Game Maker for Mac release candidate have already been resolved. It’s nice to see these are actively being worked on as previously reported bugs in Game Maker and on the YoYo Games site have often not been fixed for long periods of time if […] More

If you preferred the old Game Maker Community theme and want it back Mike Deroche has created a GreaseMonkey script which mixes elements from the old and new designs. Pointed Games is an under-development online highscores system with a twist from Dangerous Dave. Good scores are rewarded with points that can be used to unlock other games […] More

Following the recent addition of 2TB of extra disk space to the YoYo Games servers some community members reported experienceing problems with Instant Play on certain games.  Russell Kay rolled the server back to its previous configuration which is “dangerously low on disk space“.  If you can’t get games to work using Instant Play the […] More

Nikc-Nack has released a second issue of his magazine. Download (left click only) I am compiling a list of the best open-source Game Maker 8 games. Effectively any good quality game made in Game Maker 8 with a downloadable .gmk file will do.  Ideally games from a cross-section of genres will be included in order […] More

Mike Dailly has posted a list of games entered into YoYo Games’ fifth competition that he personally enjoyed on his blog.  He gives a few comments on most saying what he liked and disliked about  them. Game Maker Station are holding a second competition. Please don’t enter it. Their first contest offered $350 of prizes […] More