Community Links

Game Maker community site Roket Games is to close at the end of the month. The site didn’t succeed in attracting enough traffic, members and games for the site to be worthwhile to continue running. The Roket Games game integration system will be made open source. YoYo’s Mike Dailly has a blog, titled The life […] More

IVGMU have posted an interview with Alexitrón. This is only their third interview with users of Game Maker in three months. More general confusion at GMIndie.  After apparently spending $150 to purchase a blogspot blog and having recently launched a scheme whereby they would pay their contributors, leader Brian Fetcher today posted on his forums […] More

I’ve noticed that in recent weeks the mid-week links have been getting less Game Maker related and more general with regards to indie games/game promotion. Cracked have posted a list of 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted. I don’t particularly think these are creepy or rocket-science but the article makes […] More

FBIndie have posted an 8-tip guide to creating a video trailer for your game that will get it noticed. Included in the post are some examples of trailers that make use of the listed features. Ted Lauterbach has redesigned his RottenTater.com website and it is looking very pretty. Ted has designed games such as Fetus, […] More

Topic at the GMC asking about the possibility of Game Maker going open source. The debate seems somehow to have turned into a discussion about the differences (or lack of) between piracy and theft.  With regards to the original question NakedPaulToast puts it best as he so often does – people simply aren’t interesting in […] More

Just two links to share this week: Casual gaming company PopCap have released the results (pdf) of their 2010 social gaming survey. If you like bar charts and tables, Farmville or are interested in this area of game creation it may be worth a look. Also may be interested in an article from the past: […] More

The elite invite-only eo game development community have today opened up some sections of their forum to none-members.  Webmaster Simon Donkers said that this change was in response to the static impression of the site previously available to the general public. GMLive have released the discussion topics for their rescheduled show this Saturday. Jack Brockley has created […] More