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Next YYG contest delayed:  Sandy is off work for next four weeks. Self promotion for community promotion tool: GameMaker Blog’s affiliation service has now served over 10,000,000 button impressions. GameMaker Blog is two years old next month.  Any ideas for special features or celebrations? More

What is your game design style? Copycat: make a game like another game that is interesting. Experience: Make a distinct moment of game play that looks and feels interesting. Narrative: Make a story that is interesting World: Make a place or world that is interesting Systems: Make systems and objects that are interesting. Player Skills: […] More

They return! Check out: Game Maker Highscores – easily add online highscore capability to your GameMaker games. Zerosoft Gone –  the popular GameMaker community ZeroSoft which has previously held high value game making competitions has closed. Visited Recently?  GM-Resources’ map of Game Maker Community members – there are now over 100 users plotted!  Who lives near you? Follow us:  GameMaker Blog has […] More

A brief look at some of the other stories from this week: A sequel to the popular Caveman Craig game is in development. There were over 225 entries in YoYo Games’ “Save the Planet” competition which bizarrely YYG continue to plug on their homepage.  Sandy has said that he is “trying to do something a bit […] More

Voting has closed in GameMaker Blog’s very own community awards for the year 2008.  The votes will be verified and the final results published tomorrow (January 1st). WillHostForFood is currently blacklisted by Google, resulting in nice warning messages everytime I try to view a page on the GMC which contains something hosted at WHFF in […] More

GameMaker Tech magazine have completed their giveaway of 10 free GameMaker 7 pro licenses. The winning entries in their competition were submitted by T-Dub, Peter Colborne-Veel, Manuel, Giorgio Sotiropoulos, Rigoberto Juarez, Mariano Ariel de la Torre, Schalk, Jatz, Newbguy and Matthew Kremer. Congratulations to all the winners and to GameMaker Tech for organising a competition […] More

Check out: James Rhodes has launched the third version of GM-Resources, with an easy to use AJAX front-end. GM-Resources makes it easy to search for sprites and scripts on the Official Game Maker Community. Play: Block Maneouvres 2.2 [ gmc | yyg ] is a fun block-pushing game with 50 pre-built levels, plus a level […] More

Play this: Four fun mini-puzzle games (unfortunately the same cannot be said for the 18MB download size) in Trippy Tiles Deluxe by vertex67. Check it out: GMArcade have added a rewards system to their website (can currently only be redeemed for banner advertising on the site) Get involved: Zerosoft are holding a $100 Christmas-themed game […] More

Play this: Mega Block Man [ YYG | GMC ] – 3D puzzle game which has received a very positive response at the GMC , including “out of all the 3D games made in GM [that] I’ve played, this is my favourite“. Check it out: IVGM is a new blog dedicated to featuring reviews with […] More